Alison F. Stephens (born May 10, 1991) is an American

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Early life

Stephens was born in

Salt Lake City Salt Lake City (often shortened to Salt Lake and abbreviated as SLC) is the Capital (political), capital and List of cities and towns in Utah, most populous city of Utah, United States. It is the county seat, seat of Salt Lake County, Utah, Sal ...

, Utah. New York Magazine, Fashion, Model Profile Ali Stephens
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at East High School, placing second in her region in 2006.

Personal life

Stephens had no prior experience or interest in the modeling industry. Stephens became friends with fellow model

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during bookings with

Calvin Klein Calvin Richard Klein (born November 19, 1942) is an American fashion designer who launched the company that would later become Calvin Klein Inc., in 1968. In addition to clothing, he also has given his name to a range of perfumes, watches, and ...

in fall 2008. Stephens married Nicholas Lund on August 3, 2012. Stephens says she practices

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and supports the programs of the

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. Ali Stephens Bio
/ref> She is interested in environmentalism and works with the non-profit group Oceana to preserve the world's oceans.

Career

Stephens was discovered while shopping with her family in Salt Lake City and signed a three-year contract with

Elite Model Management Elite Model Management (MM) refers to two independent chain modeling agencies that originated as one in Paris, France in 1972 with subsequent locations in New York, Los Angeles, Miami, London and Toronto. In 2004, the agencies in New York, Miami, ...

in August 2007 after submitting

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photos of herself. Portfolio at Elite Models
/ref> On September 25, 2007, she made her runway debut at the

Prada Prada S.p.A. (, ; ) is an Italian luxury fashion house founded in 1913 in Milan by Mario Prada. It specializes in leather handbags, travel accessories, shoes, ready-to-wear, and other fashion accessories. Prada licenses its name and branding t ...

spring/summer fashion show in

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.Deseret Morning News, East Runner Turned Model, October 13, 2007, Jennifer Toome

During 2007, her first year as a fashion model, Stephens was an exclusive for the spring Prada runway show in Milan and opened for the spring

Chloé Chloé () is a French luxury fashion house founded in 1952 by Gaby Aghion. During the next year of 1953 Aghion joined forces with Jacques Lenoir, formally managing the business side of the brand, allowing Aghion to purely pursue the creativ ...

show in

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. During that year she also walked the runway on behalf of

Chanel Chanel ( , ) is a French high-end luxury fashion house founded in 1910 by Coco Chanel in Paris. Chanel specializes in women's ready-to-wear, luxury goods, and accessories and licenses its name and branding to Luxottica for eyewear. Chanel is ...

Dries van Noten Baron Dries Van Noten (born 12 May 1958 in Antwerp) is a Belgian fashion designer and an eponymous fashion brand, which he co-founded with CEO and business partner Christine Mathys. Early life and education Van Noten was born into a family ...

Givenchy Givenchy (, ) is a French luxury fashion and perfume house. It hosts the brand of haute couture and ready-to-wear clothing, accessories, perfumes and cosmetics of Parfums Givenchy. The house of Givenchy was founded in 1952 by designer Hubert de ...

and

Louis Vuitton Louis Vuitton Malletier, commonly known as Louis Vuitton (, ), is a French high-end Luxury goods, luxury fashion house and company founded in 1854 by Louis Vuitton (designer), Louis Vuitton. The label's LV monogram appears on most of its produc ...

. She was featured as a "rising star" in Hintmag.com's “Model Mania”, ''Pop'' magazine and was chosen by Style.com as a member of an elite group of emerging runway stars called “The Ten”. In December 2007, Vmagazine.com called Stephens the second-ranked model for the upcoming spring season. In 2008 Stephens became the face of Chloé and M Missoni and was photographed by David Sims for

. She modeled for Gap's international spring ad campaign and was photographed for Prada Sport. She was hired as an exclusive for the fall Calvin Klein show in New York City and opened the fall Nicole Farhi and CNC Costume National shows in London and Milan. She was featured on the cover of the Korean magazine ''W'' and the cover o
''MUSE''
French ''Vogue'' also featured Stephens as a top model that year. In April, Stephens was the focus of a Calvin Klein billboard on the corner of

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and

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in New York City. She was named by ''New York Look'' magazine as "This Year's Girl" and signed a cosmetics contract with Chanel. In the fall of 2008, Stephens opened for the spring show of Peter Som in New York City and closed the spring

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, Preen, and Sophia Kokosalaki shows in New York City and Paris. In 2009 Stephens appeared in many fashion magazines including ''

Vogue China ''Vogue China'' ( zh, ') is the Chinese edition of ''Vogue'' magazine. The magazine carries a mixture of local and foreign content. ''Vogue China'' became the sixteenth edition of ''Vogue'' when its first issue was released for September 2005;

'', Italian ''Vogue'', Japanese ''Vogue'', ''i-D,'' ''Numero'', ''Allure'', and the cover of ''Russh'' and the French magazine, ''Revue de Modes''. She was also chosen that year as the model for

Lacoste Lacoste S.A. is a French company, founded in 1933 by tennis player René Lacoste, and entrepreneur Mangkha. It sells clothing, footwear, sportswear, eyewear, leather goods, perfume, towels and watches. The company can be recognised by its gree ...

’s fall ad campaign. In 2010 Stephens appeared in German ''Vogue'' and ''

Teen Vogue ''Teen Vogue'' is an American online publication, formerly in print, launched in January 2003, as a sister publication to ''Vogue (magazine), Vogue'', targeted at teenagers. Like ''Vogue'', it included stories about fashion and celebrities. Since ...

'' and was featured on the cover of the French version of ''Elle''. Stephens has walked the runway for many designers including

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Balenciaga Balenciaga SA ( ) is a luxury fashion house founded in 1919 by the Spanish designer Cristóbal Balenciaga in San Sebastian, Spain. Balenciaga produces ready-to-wear, footwear, handbags, and accessories and licenses its name and branding to C ...

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, Nina Ricci,

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, and

. She has appeared in ads for

, Gap,

, Alexander Mcqueen,

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, Bergdorf Goodman,

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, Karen Millen,

mascara, Georges Rech, Uniqlo, Neiman Marcus,

, and appeared in editorials for ''Numéro'', ''

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'', ''

Harper's Bazaar ''Harper's Bazaar'' is an American monthly women's fashion magazine. It was first published in New York City on November 2, 1867, as the weekly ''Harper's Bazar''. ''Harper's Bazaar'' is published by Hearst and considers itself to be the st ...

'', '' Allure'', '' V Magazine'', ''

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'', British, Quebec, and French ''

Elle ''Elle'' (stylized ''ELLE'') is a worldwide women's magazine of French origin that offers a mix of fashion and beauty content, together with culture, society and lifestyle. The title means "she" or "her" in French. ''Elle'' is considered the w ...

'', and American, French, Japanese, Italian, Chinese, Teen, German, and British ''

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''. In a 2010 ''New York'' magazine article, Stephens said "I'm not one of the girls willing to starve themselves for fashion, so I do what shows I can but I don’t pressure myself to fit into the sample sizes." For this reason Stephens now participates in a smaller number of fashion shows per season.New York, Fashion, Ali Stephens Doesn't Walk Many Shows
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References

External links

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