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Alyssa Fatou Traoré is a Dutch fashion model. She was one of the first people discovered via
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' "We Love Your Genes" initiative.


Early life and career

Traoré is of Dutch and Ivorian heritage and grew up in
Nijmegen Nijmegen (;; Spanish and it, Nimega. Nijmeegs: ''Nimwèège'' ) is the largest city in the Dutch province of Gelderland and tenth largest of the Netherlands as a whole, located on the Waal river close to the German border. It is about 6 ...
,
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, Netherlands. At age 11, she was originally discovered by a scout in Amsterdam though in order to expand her career opportunities, she used the We Love Your Genes initiative on
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to get connected to
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, who signed her weeks later. Traoré debuted at
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in Paris. She has also walked the runway for
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, Loewe, Erdem,