back to Awards & NomineesThe Inspiration Awards - Yasmin Le Bon

In 1981, the young Yasmin was discovered by a local modeling agency while working a part-time sales job and in mid 1984 Yasmin Parvaneh met Simon Le Bon, lead singer of Duran Duran. The couple married on December 27, 1985.

Yasmin Le Bon took a brief hiatus from modeling in 1986 to recover from a miscarriage. Soon she returned to the business and in April 1987 was hired by GUESS? for a key advertising campaign. In the late 1980s She appeared on the cover of the first American and British issues of Elle. She has also been on the covers of Vogue, V, I.D., Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, Harper's Bazaar and many others.

Le Bon eventually gave birth to a daughter, Amber Rose, in August 1989. She was back on the catwalks within weeks. In September 1991, Le Bon had her second daughter, Saffron Sahara, and then, three years later, had her third, Tallulah Pine. In the spring of 2001, Le Bon, a 36-year-old mother of three, modeled bikinis for Marks & Spencer. In 2003, she signed an exclusive deal with designer Matthew Williamson and his sponsor, Ariel Essential. She is managed by Elite Model Management in New York City.

As a model Le Bon has represented Ann Taylor, Banana Republic, Bergdorf Goodman, Biotherm, Bloomingdale's, Bonwit Teller, Calvin Klein, Chanel, Christian Dior, Clairol, Escada, Filene's, Frasercard and Gianfranco Ferre, amongst others. She is often noted for her timeless, classic style.

This year, House of Fraser is enlisting Yasmin Le Bon  to be the face of their spring/summer 2008 campaign. With celebrity photographer Robert Erdmann on board to shoot the print-based campaign, which launches at the beginning of March, Yasmin dazzles in the likes of Linea and Untold - both labels available exclusively at House of Fraser stores nationwide.