Candice Swanepoel, FashionTV Model Pic of the Month

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Swanepoel was born in a tiny South African province and recently climbed all the way to the top of the fashion world. Her modeling career is a story of many successes and her sweet looks and figure make us want to see more from this bombshell. Candice Swanepoel is our Model of the Week.

At fifteen, South African beauty Candice Swanepoel, was scouted while shopping in a local flea market. Little did she know that this shopping spree back in 2003 would change Swanepoel’s ordinary life into a rollercoaster of catwalks, fashion magazine covers, ad campaigns and a lot of attention from the fashion industry. One year later, sixteen year old Swanepoel was earning approximately 5,000 Euros for a day’s work. Nowadays, she has become one of the world’s most successful models and was recently ranked in 10th place on Forbes’ list of highest paid models in the world, with earnings of about 3.1 million dollars.

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ALPHADI, Dakar Fashion Week

Dakar Fashion Week highlights brings ‘anti-sharia’ sass in memory of a less repressive Mali

The bright colors, occasionally bare arms and sparkle that sashayed down the catwalk were definitely not in keeping with sharia, the strict Islamic law that has been enforced in northern Mali for the past two months. | ©ourtesy of NYDailyNews.com Fashion

The Sahel‘s most feted fashionista, Tuareg designer Alphadi, hit the runway at Dakar Fashion Week with a homage to Mali, whose vast north is largely under control of hardline Islamic law. The bright colors, occasionally bare arms and sparkle that sashayed down the catwalk were definitely not in keeping with sharia, the strict Islamic law that has been enforced in northern Mali for the past two months. “That’s the idea,” laughed the man who was introduced to the crowd at the final Dakar fashion week show of the 10th annual Dakar Fashion Week on Saturday night as the “Magician of the Desert”. Alphadi was born in the fabled city of Timbuktu, an ancient

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