A former titan of the fashion industry ... "I started in New York City, and then I went to Milan, which is sort of the trajectory that a lot of models go through," Laurie Marsden said.

They march through an iron gate into the Brazilian headquarters of Marilyn, a French fashion-model agency, each carrying photo portfolios under their arms and visions of New York in their heads.

Alton Mason was the first Black male model to open for French fashion ... to open a Chanel runway. NEW YORK, NEW YORK – APRIL 08: Paloma Elsesser attends the Fashion Scholarship Fund Gala ...

For the audacious French designer, Naomi Campbell embodied that “someone”: an assertive, strut-serving fashion icon who catapulted those clothes into contemporary culture—a super-model ...