Somali supermodel (Yasmin Warsame)

Somali-born Canadian model. In 2004, she was named "The Most Alluring Canadian" in a poll by Fashion Magazine.

She moved from Somalia to Toronto, Canada when she was fifteen. Warsame began modelling in 2000 with a booking for the Sears catalogue in Toronto. She was in her early 20s – and five months pregnant with her son Hamzah – when she accepted this shoot. She worked as a fashion model in Canada for almost two years. Her look, however, was considered too "haute couture" for the local scene, making work scarce. So, in the summer of 2002, Warsame headed to Paris. In that year her break-through came by a feature for the Italian Vogue, photographed by Steven Meisel.

Warsame worked for agencies like Next Toronto/Montreal, IMG New York, Next Paris, Next London, View Barcelona and Tony Jones Amsterdam. She was on the covers of a.o. Vogue Italia and American Vogue. Her pictures were in the American and British Elle, Amica and Surface Magazine. She modelled for both the couture and ready-to-wear runways for everyone from Christian Dior to Jean Paul Gaultier. She did high-profile advertising campaigns for Valentino couture, Dolce & Gabbana, Escada, Hermès, Shiseido, Chanel, GAP and H&M.

Warsame was (and from time to time still is) a volunteer for the Somali Youth Coalition in Canada.

She studied psychology and also social sciences at Seneca College. [1].

Warsame recently became a judge on Canadian reality television series, Canada's Next Top Model, Cycle 2

Category:

People & Blogs

Tags:

• Somali
• East
• Africa
• Kenya
• Models
• Somalia
• Black
• woman
• African
• Puntland
• somaliland
• beautiful
• Eritrea
• Yasmin
• supermodel

[SpankRamen2]

I am (Black) American born & bred, but I'll be the first to admit that Somalis & Ethopians are THE MOST beautiful Black people in the UNIVERSE. Come on, y'all, there a reason David Bowie snatched up Iman.

I'll come out & confess that I wish I could've been born Somali-American just because they are so hot, but I'm just an ordinary American chick.

[Muzzer27]

She literally looks like a goddess. God was generous to humankind creating this black wonder! Ultimately gorgeous woman!

[tehuda]

Wow! What a beautiful woman! She is dammmmmmmmmm sexy!

[dazzling5909]

She looks just like my aunt

[ten2pat]

Man these women are beautiful! I need to get to the horn!

[tauro2]

she's so pretty, her bone structure is amazing and her skin is flawless

[MrGololi]

@maromaliz

Everyone had been a slave for someone, at one time or another, and no community of people for one reason or another can say that they have never been enslaved. Eastern Europeans and the British of today had been once enslaved by Rome. Arabs had been enslaved by Persians and vice versa. The African slave trade is the most recent and that is why it is still fresh in our memory.

[MrDjkayz]

Proud to be AFRICAN.

[FAinab1]

We arent arabs we are africans!!!

[DamallaX]

These girls are all Daarood, the Arab tribes of Somalia.

[bellefairydust]

Omg she should play ororo monroe/storm of the X-men she'd be perfect!