Tyra Lynne Banks

Career
• Modeling
When Banks was 15 years old, she started modeling besides school in Los Angeles. Later, when she was in search of a model agency, she was rejected by four modeling agencies before she got signed by Elite Model Management at age 17. When she got the opportunity to model in Europe, she decided to put college on hold to move to Milan. In her first runway season, she was booked a record of 25 shows at Paris fashion week. She would later on grace covers of ELLE and Vogue Spain. She walked the runways for Chanel, Isaac Mizrahi, Anna Sui and Fendi as well as appearing in ad campaigns for Dolce & Gabbana, Yves Saint Laurent and Ralph Lauren. In the mid-1990's, Banks returned to America to do more commercial modeling.