Kylie Bax is a New Zealand-born supermodel and actress. She was born January 5, 1975 in Thames, New Zealand and was first discovered by local modelling agency Clyne Model Management. She soon went to New York and signed with several other international agencies: Women, Marilyn and Storm. She has been a popular choice for international magazine covers, including Vogue and Marie Claire. Since 1999, Bax has appeared in several movies, including Get Over It (2001), starring Kirsten Dunst.
She grew up on her parents' horse-breeding farm in Thames. Bax was first discovered in a New Zealand shopping mall by an agent from Clyne Model Management. Kylie was a beauty queen before she gave her crown back to start modelling.
After discovering her marketing abilities as a fashion model, she soon boarded a plane bound for New York in order to make it big as a model. Bax became steven Meisels protege. With her new "boyish looks" but still very feminine, she went on to work with countless top photographers such as Karl Largerfeld ,whom treated her like his daughter, to Helmut Newton and Richard Avedon.
Like most models nowadays, Bax is branching out of modeling to pursue an acting career. She appeared in the films The Big Tease and Get Over It with Kirsten Dunst.
On November 3, 2006, Bax filed a federal lawsuit in Los Angeles Friday against a French men's magazine for putting two breast-baring photos of her on its wrapper. Bax claims she did not give permission for the racy photographs, which were taken about six years ago, to be used on the front and back of Max Magazine's April 2006 wrapper.
Once discovered Bax became an international modeling success, signing with Women in New York, Marilyn in Paris, and Storm in London. She has graced countless international magazine covers, including Vogue, Marie Claire, Harper's Bazaar & Mode Australia, Maxim, Vanity Fair, ELLE and Sports Illustrated. she has also appeared on more than 20 Vogue covers around the world.
In 2000, Bax joined a list of beauties like Estella Warren, Veronica Varekova and Michelle Behennah in Sports Illustrated's Swimsuit Issue of 2000.
Soon after Bax appeared in Playboy magazine in a full frontal spread. This is widely considered the most explicit shoot for a celebrity in Playboy ever, as Bax became the first and only playboy model to date to pose wearing a metal nipple chain.
She has appeared in campaigns for international products such as Club Monaco, Anna Sui, Clinique, Ann Taylor, DKNY, Escada, Gianfranco Ferre, Giorgio Armani, Louis Vuitton, Oscar de la Renta, Sonia Rykiel, Versace, Moschino, Nars, and Valentino.
She has walked down catwalks for high fashion houses such as Moschino, Oscar de la Renta, Chanel, Christian Dior, Christian Lacroix, and Valentino, Gucci, Galliano, Donna Karan, Cynthis Rowley, Calvin Klein, Joop, Alexander McQueen, Phillip Treacy, Karl Lagerfeld, Chloe, Ralph Lauren, Prada, and Miu Miu.
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