Ali Michael

Ali Michael
Ali Michael
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	Modeling information
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Hair color	Brown
Eye color	Blue

Alexandra Nicole "Ali" Michael (born May 15, 1990, in Colleyville, Texas) is an American fashion model who attracted international attention for her weight as a fashion model.

Michael grew up in Colleyville, Texas, and graduated from Grapevine High School in 2008. Her modeling career started after winning the Fashion!Dallas/Kim Dawson Model Search contest in 2005 at age 15. She has walked many runways: Chanel, Christian Dior, Christian LaCroix, Marc Jacobs, Donna Karan, John Galliano, Fendi, Balenciaga, Yohji Yamamoto, Lanvin, Celine, Burberry, 3.1 Philip Lim, Anne Valerie Hash, Rodarte, Anna Sui plus many more, and been featured in Teen Vogue, Sportmax, Vogue, W, Vogue Italia, Russian Vogue, Spur and many other magazines. After her strong debut in spring 2007, www.style.com named her as one of the top ten models of the season.

In February 2008, she was sent home from Paris fashion week after being told that "her legs were too plump". This was after Michael had gained five pounds after struggling with an eating disorder. She was then the center of the article "Wasn't Skinny Supposed to Be Out of Fashion?" in The Wall Street Journal on February 28, 2008. In May 2008, she appeared on the Today Show and talked about the pressure to be thin as a model and the alarming increase over the years to be skinnier. She stated that she "hadn't had [her] period in over a year" and had a wake up call when on a plane she "ran [her] fingers through [her] hair, and when [she] took [her] hand away there was a dry brittle clump of hair in [her] hand". This was before Michael's mother forced her to see a nutritionist, but then she began purging after meals to avoid gaining weight. In May, she was also in Teen Vogue and spoke about her weight struggle in an article. She also said that she was not alone and many other young (and old) models starve themselves and do not have periods.

After her early departure from Paris after just one show, she careturned strong for spring/summer 2009 Fashion Weeks in New York, London, Milan and Paris. She graced the catwalks of: Lacoste, ADAM, Matthew Williamson, Marc Jacobs, MaxAzria, 3.1 Phillip Lim, Doo.Ri, Paul Smith, Luella, Louise Goldin, Aquascutum, House of Holland, Burberry Prorsum, Iceberg, Fendi, Bruno Pieters, Christian Dior, Balenciaga, Sonia Rykiel, Karl Lagerfeld, Akris, Celine and John Galliano. In addition to her strong comeback, Ali resigned contract with SportMax and a new fragrance contract with Lanvin's Jeanne Lanvin. She also became the face of the new Anna Sui's campaign, Lord & Taylor and Gianfranco Ferre.

She has been dating David Broderick, a student of University of North Texas and guitarist of the band Kingfish, since 2004.

Runway Shows

Fall/Winter 2007 : {Lacoste, Karen Walker, Alice Roi, Alexandre Herchcovitch, 3.1 Phillip Lim, Isaac Mizrahi, Rodarte, Behnaz Sarafpour, Proenza Schouler, Anna Sui, Costello Tagliapietra, Giles, Marc by Marc Jacobs, Yohji Yamamoto, Rue du Mail, Lanvin, Collette Dinnigan}

Resort 2008 : {Christian Dior, Anna Sui}

Spring/Summer 2008 : {BCBG Max Azria, TSE, MaxAzria, Rodarte, Phi, 3.1 Phillip Lim, DKNY, Malo, Jill Stuart, Anna Sui, Marc by Marc Jacobs, Anne Klein, Luella, Christopher Kane, Matthew Williamson, House of Holland, D&G, Burberry Prorsum, Alessandro Dell'Acqua, Anna Monilari, Yohji Yamamoto, Christian Dior, Sophia Kokosalaki, Karl Lagerfeld, Christian LaCroix, Anne Valeria Hash, Sonia Rykiel, John Galliano, Lanvin}

Fall/Winter 2008 : {Ruffian, Y-3, DKNY, Jill Stuart, Matthew Williamson, Marc by Marc Jacobs, Y & Kei, 3.1 Phillip Lim, Anna Sui, Yohji Yamammoto}

Spring/Summer 2009 : {Lacoste, ADAM, Matthew Williamson, Marc Jacobs, MaxAzria, 3.1 Phillip Lim, Doo.Ri, Paul Smith, Luella, Louise Goldin, Aquascutum, House of Holland, Burberry Prorsum, Iceberg, Fendi, Bruno Pieters, Christian Dior, Balenciaga, Sonia Rykiel, Karl Lagerfeld, Akris, Celine, John Galliano}

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