Dewi Driegen

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Dewi Driegen
Born (1982-09-15) 15 September 1982 (age 41)
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Height1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Hair colorBlonde
Eye colorGreen
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Dewi Driegen (born 15 September 1982) [2] [3] is a Dutch model. Her mother is a quarter Indonesian.[ citation needed ]

Driegen was discovered at the age of thirteen by an Elite Model Management Amsterdam modeling scout but decided to stay in school. [2] After her 18th birthday though, she began modeling in Paris and Milan in shows such as Valentino [3] and Versace. [2]

Driegen's first campaign was for the Fall 2002 Balenciaga collection [3] and has continued to do advertisements for Armani Exchange, Gucci, [2] New York & Company, Versus, Barneys and numerous others. She has also appeared on the covers of Russian Vogue in December 2002, [3] UK's Vogue and i-D in March 2003 amongst others. She first appeared in Vogue Paris in October 2003. [2] She has also appeared on the Victoria's Secret televised fashion show in 2002 and 2003. [3] In 2004, she was photographed by Nick Knight for the Pirelli Calendar. [4]

Other runway credits of hers include Alberta Ferretti, Alexander McQueen, [3] Chanel, [3] Christian Lacroix, Christian Dior, [3] D&G, Emanuel Ungaro, Elie Saab, Emilio Pucci, John Galliano, Givenchy, [3] Marc Jacobs, Michael Kors, [3] Miu Miu, Ralph Lauren, and Roberto Cavalli.

Since 2019, she lives in Ibiza, Spain.

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