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Yasmin Le Bon (née Parvaneh; born 29 October 1964) is a British model. Le Bon was one of the highest earning models during the 1980s.
Yasmin Parvaneh was born in Oxford, England, the youngest child of an Iranian father and an English mother. She modeled for a local agency while she attended school, and after leaving signed with Models 1 Agency in London.
In April 1987, she was hired by Guess? for an advertising campaign. Throughout 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 and Harper's Bazaar.
In spring 2001, Le Bon modeled bikinis for Marks & Spencer. In 2003, she signed an exclusive deal with designer Matthew Williamson and his sponsor, Ariel Essential. (Full article...)