“IN A CLASS BY HERSELF”
…………………YASMEEN GHAURI……..was a SUPER MODEL…..and in a class by herself!…..I booked Yasmeen for ALL of my runway shows….and often used her for National Ad Campaigns……and many of my Look Books……These photos are from a Spring campaign………It can be argued that she created the “WALK”…..the “Yasmeen Walk”, that many models emulated….She was unique, and her ethnic heritage gave her a very exotic look….She had the perfect body, and could wear anything…..and those LEGS!!!! I always found Yasmeen very quiet and very professional…..Some may have found her standoffish, but I always appreciated her work ethic, and her down to business attitude……She was there to do a job…….and she did it MAGNIFICENTLY!!!……I remember the jewelry photo on the right, which was from a Spring campaign, being criticized for not being “the Anne Klein image”…..but I was always trying to push the envelope, and escape the box I was put into…It’s a crippling way to create when you are restricted on how to design because of what was the past and what was expected of you to do….never being allowed to go beyond what is known and expected….I never payed attention, because creatively I couldn’t…..I didn’t care….I did what I liked….I had to…..I always gave the photographers, the models, the makeup artists, and the stylists a free hand to come up with something wonderful without restrictions….Without realizing it I grew creatively from just being around these geniuses!…..I remember at the time, when I saw the photos, I thought the combination of that jewelry and Yasmeen’s look was perfect………It certainly worked for my twenty years at Anne Klein!
