Naomi Campbell has modelled a number of luxurious designer garments during a glamorous photoshoot for W Magazine. She is featured wearing an unusual A-line coat, a richly-printed pant suit and even an ensemble composed of a tunic with a front split a pair of black hotpants underneath

 Naomi Campbell is one of a few models, supermodels actually, for whom the time seems to have stopped long ago, who seem to have stuck in their early 30s and will never age. The beauty, who has walked hundreds of runways and done dozens of ad campaigns, has appeared on pages of the July 2012 issue of W Magazine looking glamorous and sexy.

Naomi, who is now busy with her The Face project, lives with her Russian billionaire boyfriend Vladislav Doronin in Moscow.

Naomi Campbell is an English supermodel, one of the most famous black beauties and the woman who has had plenty of legal issues for aggressive behavior.
Naomi Campbell was born on May 22, 1970 in Streatham, London, England. Her mother, Valerie Campbell (née Morris), is of Afro-Jamaican descent, a former ballet dancer. There is no information about Naomi’s father though, except that he was of Chinese Jamaican descent, and left Valerie with two-months-old daughter. Campbell has never met her father, his name was not written on a birth certificate and his identity has never been revealed by either Valerie or Naomi.
As a child, Campbell was brought up by a nanny because her mother travelled across Europe with the dance troupe Fantastica. When the girl turned 10, she was accepted into the Italia Conti Academy stage school, where she studied ballet dancing. Then Naomi attended Dunraven School, which was a comprehensive school run by Inner London Education Authority in Streatham.

Naomi has not immediately started her career as a model. Long before that, when she was just 7 (February 1978) she was cast as a pupil to star in a music video for Bob Marley’s song Is This Love?. Four years later, in 1982, she appeared in another music video, this time as a tap dancer for Culture Club’s I’ll Tumble 4 Y.

The real job began at the age of 15 while Campbell was still a student at the Italia Conti Academy. The girl was spotted by Beth Boldt, a former Ford model and head of the Synchro model agency, while window-shopping in Covent Garden. Campbell made her decision quickly and signed with Elite Model Management. She started as a catwalk model but soon she was frequently invited to grace various high-profile advertising campaigns, including those of Lee Jeans and Olympus Corporation, which helped her to get to the American market. Shortly after that Naomi also did campaigns for Ralph Lauren and François Nars.

Naomi Campbell starred in George Michael’s music video Freedom! ’90, where she lip-synched to his song together with fellow models Linda Evangelista, Christy Turlington, Cindy Crawford and Tatjana Patitz. In 1992, Campbell worked with Madonna again. She appeared in music video for Erotica, which featured photoshoots for the book Sex. Naomi has also appeared in music videos for Michael Jackson, Usher, Nelly, Jay-Z, Jagged Edge, P.Diddy, The Notorious B.I.G., Macy Gray, and Prince.

Naomi Campbell is famous for her statements about supermodels and racism. In 2008 she named Gisele Bundchen the youngest modern supermodel.
She said: “Models need to earn their stripes – I just think the term is used a little too loosely. Kate Moss is obviously a supermodel but, after Gisele [Bündchen], I don’t think there’s been one.”
Talking about racism in 2009, Campbell stated she had to work harder than other models to get the job.
In an interview with Glamour magazine, Campbell said: “You know, the American president may be black, but as a black woman, I am still an exception in this business. I always have to work harder to be treated equally.”
In 2010 the supermodel signed up to host season six of Britain’s Next Top Model but had to refuse the offer only six weeks before filming referring time commitment issues.
Naomi Campbell is currently signed to IMG Models (New York City), TESS management (London), Marilyn Agency (Paris), and D’management Group (Milan).

Naomi Campbell has tried herself in various fields but modeling is definitely what she does best. In 1991, Campbell was featured on Vanilla Ice’s single Cool as Ice. In 1994 she sang on the track Heaven’s Girl on Quincy Jones’s album Q’s Jook Joint. Besides, she appeared in Michael Jackson’s music video for In the Closet as his love interest. In between these years, in 1992, Campbell appeared in Madonna’s Erotica music video.

In 1995, Naomi released her own debut album named Baby Woman which was not highly praised by critics but sold over 1 million copies worldwide.

Naomi has also given a crack in designing. In 1999 she founded a company, the Design House of Naomi Campbell, under which she released seven fragrances for women: Naomi Campbell (2000), Naomagic (2000), Cat Deluxe (2001), Mystery (2002), Sunset (2003), Paradise Passion (2005). Campbell’s latest fragrance came as a new version of her Cat Deluxe perfume called Cat Deluxe at Night.
Through the years of her modeling career Naomi Campbell has been photographed by David Bailey, Patrick DeMarchelier, Steven Meisel, Richard Avedon, Herb Ritts, Ellen von Unwerth, Mario Testino, Mario Sorrenti, Helmut Newton, Seb Janiak, Steven Klein, Peter Lindbergh, Mert and Marcus and Nick Knight.

She has graced ad campaigns for Versace, Ralph Lauren, and Dolce & Gabbana. Her mentors have been Azzedine Alaia, Karl Lagerfeld, Jean Paul Gaultier, John Galliano, Vivienne Westwood, Marc Jacobs, Yves Saint Laurent, Gianni Versace and Alexander McQueen.
Besides, she used to work as a contributing editor for a number of magazines, including GQ, and interviewed Lewis Hamilton, Hugo Chavez, and Christina Kirchner. She also guest edited the April 2010 issue of Russian Vogue.

Naomi Campbell has starred in films since early childhood. She made her debut appearance in a Children’s Film Foundation serial The Chiffy Kids in 1976, playing the role of a Snow White. She also appeared in Girl 6 (1996), Prisoner of Love (1999), and Fat Slags (2004). Naomi has played herself a couple of times in films Pret a Porter (1994) and Ali G Indahouse (2001).
Full list of films and music videos Naomi Campbell has starred in:
• The Cosby Show (3 episodes, 1988)
• The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1990)
• Cool as Ice (1991)
• In the Closet (video)
• Erotica (video)
• The Night We Never Met (1993)
• Ready to Wear (1994) (cameo)
• Unzipped (1995) (documentary)
• Miami Rhapsody (1995)
• Absolutely Fabulous (1995) (cameo)
• New York Undercover (1995, five episodes)
• To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (1995) (cameo)
• Catwalk (1996) (documentary)
• Girl 6 (1996)
• Invasion of Privacy (1996)
• Beautopia (1998) (documentary)
• An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn (1998)
• Trippin’ (1999)
• Prisoner of Love (1999)
• Ali G Indahouse (2002)
• Fat Slags (2004)
• The Call (2006) (short subject)
• Karma, Confessions and Holi (2006)
• Ugly Betty (2008, one episode)

Naomi Campbell has done a lot for charity. Since 1997 she has been involved in charity work to help people of Sub-Saharan Africa. She has collaborated with Nelson Mandela, and enjoyed it so much that she said ‘one of her greatest joys in life was knowing Mandela’. She also noted that ‘his kindness, passion and intelligence made him a modern world leader’.
In 2005, she made a lot of effort to help create Fashion for Relief, which raised over a million dollars for Hurricane Katrina victims. On 7 July 2007 she was a host at the South African leg of Live Earth in Johannesburg. Later on, in 2009 Naomi was awarded the Honorary Patronage of the University Philosophical Society, Trinity College, Dublin for extensive charitable and professional activity.
On 12 February 2010 Campbell organized a fashion show Fashion for Relief Haiti in New York that attracted over 140 fashion designer stars. On 30 October 2010 Naomi received the Pyramide Con Mani Award for social commitments at International UNESCO Charity Gala for Children in Need in Düsseldorf.
.....Posted by Daxx on thurs june21, 2012.