Jade Parfitt
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Jade Parfitt | |
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Born | Hammersmith, London, United Kingdom | 1 June 1978
Occupation | Model/Vogue presenter |
Modelling information | |
Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) |
Hair colour | Blonde |
Eye colour | Blue |
Agency | Storm, London. Women Model Management, New York. Viva, Paris |
Jade Parfitt (born 1 June 1978) is a British model and presenter.[1] She was born in Hammersmith, London, England but she and her family moved to Devonshire, Southern England when she was 14.
Career
When she was 15, Jade's mother entered her into a modeling competition on the UK TV show 'This Morning', in which she won and was awarded with a contract with MODELS1. Jade's runway debut was for the Prada Spring 1995 show in Milan in October 1994. The show featured many of the industry's top models of the time including Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista, Nadja Auermann, Brandi Quinones and Kirsty Hume. She was also booked for shows in Paris including Ann Demeulemeester.
Jade was among the crop of British models that stormed onto the scene at the tail-end of the Kate Moss/waif debacle in the mid-1990s, along with Carolyn Park, Stella Tennant, Jacquetta Wheeler and Jodie Kidd, another 6-foot-plus Brit. Designers took advantage of her extremely tall, exaggerated frame and soon, she was walking the runways for the elite of designers and fashion houses, such as
Personal life
Jade has three children, Jackson who was born in 2007, Tabitha who was born in 2015 and Silver who was born in 2017. Jade married Jack Dyson in 2018 and the family live between Devon and London.
References
- ^ "Jade Parfitt - Fashion Model". Retrieved 5 February 2013.