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Miss Illinois 2009 Erin O?Connor

Examiner.com - Found Jun. 25, 2009
Miss Illinois 2009 Erin O'Connor (Miss Illinois Organization Photo) Las Vegas won?t be the next stop for Erin O?Connor.

Posted on June 25, 2009, 6:27 am

Erin O'Connor named Miss Illinois

Macomb Journal - Found Jun. 21, 2009
- Erin O'Connor, Miss Macomb 2009, has been named as the new Miss Illinois. O'Connor, a 20-year-old Western Illinois University student from...

Posted on June 21, 2009, 7:11 am

Top supermodel Erin O'Connor backs Dundee student's fashion show

Daily Record - Found Jun. 2, 2009
Erin O'Connor opened the Dundee Degree Show and was so impressed, she went backstage immediately to congratulate the students and put in an...

Posted on June 2, 2009, 4:34 am

Twiggy - The New Face of Olay

AOL Style Blog - Found Jul. 2, 2009
... high-profile ad campaigns (holding her own with the likes of fresher-faced models like Lily Cole, Erin O' Connor and Lizzy Jagger), and even...

Posted on July 2, 2009, 8:00 am

Adjunct Faculty: The Free Market at Work

National Review - Found Jul. 1, 2009
[David French] Thank you, George, for directing us to Maurice Black and Erin O'Connor review.

Posted on July 1, 2009, 3:41 am

Adjunct Faculty: Is There a Problem?

National Review - Found Jul. 1, 2009
[George Leef] Maurice Black and Erin O'Connor of ACTA have written an excellent review for Minding the Campus of Off-Track Profs: Nontenured Teachers ...

Posted on July 1, 2009, 3:40 am

Elton John's white tie and tiara ball

Telegraph - Found Jun. 26, 2009
Star-studded night at Elton John's and David Furnish's 11th white tie and tiara ball. Lily Allen with David Walliams and Erin O'Connor at the ball. ...

Posted on June 26, 2009, 5:23 am

Sick girl in dream trip to Disney World

Hawick News - Found Jun. 23, 2009
... s Smiles, also based in Leicester, treated the Oadby schoolgirl to a photo shoot with top model Erin O'Connor, a hair appointment with Trevor...

Posted on June 23, 2009, 8:51 am

Hot off the fashion press

IAfrica.com - Found Jun. 23, 2009
(sic)' Ford Models has represented a host of stars, including Rachel Hunter, Erin O'Connor and Chanel Iman.

Posted on June 23, 2009, 2:18 am

Skinny backlash: Fashion houses under attack

Brisbane Courier-Mail - Found Jun. 23, 2009
Supermodel Erin O'Connor described the move as a major breakthrough.

Posted on June 23, 2009, 10:13 am

Erin O'Connor Biography

Erin O'Connor
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Erin O'Connor
Date of birth 9 February 1978 (1978-02-09) (age 31)
Place of birth Brownhills, England
Height 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Hair colour Dark brown
Eye colour Hazel

Erin O'Connor (born 9 February 1978) is an English fashion model.

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Early life

Erin O'Connor was born and brought up in the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall, England1 and went to Brownhills Community School (now Brownhills Community Technology College/ Brownhills C.T.C). She was raised Catholic and her father is from Ballycastle, Northern Ireland.2 On a school trip to the Birmingham Clothes Show she was spotted by a scout.3

Modelling career

Her first published pictures were by Juergen Teller for a 1996 issue of i-D, and are creditedcitation needed with launching an ‘alternative concept of beauty’. O’Connor is noted for her angular, highly symmetrical profile and porcelain-pale complexioncitation needed.

She is synonymouscitation needed with Charlotte Cotton's notion of 'imperfect beauty' in 1990s fashion photography, and Karl Lagerfeld has described her as "one of the best models in the world".1 O’Connor has been associated with luxury labels from Chanel, Versace, Givenchy, Dolce & Gabbana, Gucci, Armani, and Jean-Paul Gaultier.

She has modelled on the catwalk for John Galliano, Christian Dior, Donna Karan, Prada, Versace, Miu Miu, Giorgio Armani, Julien MacDonald, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Badgley Mischka, Dolce & Gabbana and Ermanno Scervino among many others. She has worked with many leading fashion photographers including Patrick Demarchelier, Steven Meisel, Steven Klein, Nick Knight, Mario Testino, David Sims, Bryan Adams,and Jonathan de Villiers, and featured in magazines including Vogue, W, Elle, Nova, Harper's Bazaar, Harpers & Queen, i-D, and Visionaire. She was on the January cover of British Vogue. In March 2003, O'Connor featured in a three-part Channel 4 documentary This Model Life.3

Since 2005, she has been one of the faces of the iconic British high-street chain Marks and Spencer and in 2008 she launched the haircare line model.me for Toni & Guy alongside Jamelia and Helena Christensen.

In July 2008, O'Connor appeared on the cover of Singapore Harper's Bazaar.

She writes a column for London Fashion Week paper The Daily Rubbish, currently contributes a regular blog to the online presence of British Vogue, has written for The Sunday Times and the Daily Mail and recently wrote & presented a Documentary on fashion Erin's Model World for BBC Radio 4.

In 2009, she will appear as a mentor & judge on the Irish reality TV series The Model Agent for RTE 2.

On 20th May 2009, she attended and officially opened the Univeristy of Dundee's College of Art and Design VIP degree show preview night; "Designs on the Future", featuring amongst the various disciplines, a fashion show of work from both jewellery and Textiles final year students.

She is signed to 2pm Model Management in Copenhagen, Denmark, and Independent Models in London.

In 2007, The Sunday Times considered her to be the 39th richest person under 30 in the United Kingdom, with an estimated wealth of 12 million pounds.4

O'Connor is the vice chair of the British Fashion Council and runs the Model sanctuary an area of relaxation for catwalk models between shows.

The Long Blondes second album "Couples" includes a track called "Erin O'Connor".

In 2001, she appeared as herself in the "Paris" episode of Absolutely Fabulous.

Personal life

She once dated TV presenter Jamie Theakston and had a long-term relationship with Sky News producer John Kent.13.

She lives in Camberwell, London

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