Shaun Casey (born January 7, 1954) is a former
model
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active from the mid-1970s through the mid-1980s. By 1987 she had given up modeling for all but a few favorite clients.
["The Changing Face of Beauty: A photographer's favorite models", by Trish Donnelley. ''San Francisco Chronicle'', Nov 16, 1987, page B.4.]
In the late 1970s, Casey was associated with
hairstylist
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,
John Sahag Sahag Jamgotchian (January 2, 1952 – June 15, 2005), better known as John Sahag, was a Manhattan celebrity hairstylist, best known for the haircut he gave Demi Moore for the 1990 movie ''Ghost''.
Early life
Sahag was born in Beirut to Armenian ...
, who created a stir by cutting her hair extremely short and bleaching it white for a
Helmut Newton
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cover of
Vogue Paris
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History 1920–54
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.
Shaun Casey was the
Estée Lauder girl from 1979 to 1984. She was one of
Calvin Klein
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's first models. Klein custom designed her wedding dress to her first husband. Her first advertisement in 1979 called "Grand Cafe Colors." Others were 1981's "The Great American Desert," 1982's "Perfectly Natural Liquid Makeup," 1982's "Country Manor Colors," 1983's "Greek Island Colors," and 1983's Polished Performance Liquid Makeup." Shaun Casey graced six ''
Harper's Bazaar'' covers, eight ''
Glamour'' covers, one
French ''Vogue'' cover, a few Italian ''Bazaar'' covers, one
British ''Vogue'' cover, and is known as one of the first super models.
Casey also had a cameo in the 1977
Woody Allen
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romantic comedy ''
Annie Hall
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''.
Casey described modeling as "a grind, it's just like any other job" and said of her pictures, "Gosh, I wish I looked like that every day."
[
Shaun Casey was married to actor Roger Wilson from 1978 to 1983.]
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American female models
Living people
1954 births
Place of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American women
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