Portfolio of a Fashion Aficionado: SPOTLIGHT: KRISTA WHITE

Exquisite. Enticing. Ebony-skinned. And a winner.

For our first model under our 'Spotlight', we will be meeting a reality show winner turned into one of the most booked supermodels in the fashion industry. Please welcome, Krista White!

Krista's surname is White, but interestingly enough, she is dark-skinned! Talk about irony!

She was the Cycle 14 winner of the hit reality modeling show, America's Next Top Model by Tyra Banks. She was now 27 years old, she came from Pine Bluff, AR and worked as a retail manager before she graced the runways and the fashion spreads.

In her Top Model stint, she impressed the panel for producing photos with supreme flair and high-fashion feel in to it. She received four consecutive first call-outs, and she never placed in the bottom two! She was the fourth to do that, preceding Nicole Fox, Jaslene Gonzales and McKey Sullivan.

She and Raina Hein battled for the $100, 000 contract with Covergirl Cosmetics, a cover and six-page spread in Seventeen magazine and a modeling contract with Wilhelmina Models, the same modeling agency that handled pros like Beyonce, Britney Spears, Somalian supermodel Iman, Anjelica Huston and the other winners of the hit show. They strutted the runway wearing designs from Anna Sui. While discussing the final two’s overall portfolios throughout the season, the judges deemed Krista as a more sophisticated and edgy model who would do well on the runway, while Raina was the beauty model who would make waves internationally as a photo model.

After her stint, she walked the runway of the NY designer Nicole Miller in the NZ Fashion Week. Also, she modeled for top designer Betsy Johnson and Sergio Guaddaramo's "Celestino Collection." Recently, she graced the runway for BET's Rip the Runway.

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