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Amanda Googe

American fashion model and artist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ79469202
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Amanda Rae Googe is an American fashion model and artist.

Career

Googe was scouted in high school. After graduating from Brown University, she began modeling professionally, debuting as a Prada exclusive; it is considered the highest feat for a new model. In addition to a Steven Meisel-photographed Prada campaign, she walked for the likes of Dries van Noten, Chanel, Azzedine Alaïa, Isabel Marant, Dolce & Gabbana, Victoria Beckham, Tommy Hilfiger, Jason Wu, Narciso Rodriguez, Hugo Boss, Erdem, 3.1 Phillip Lim, Loewe, Sacai (which she opened), and Acne Studios (which she closed). She also opened and closed for Valentino couture.

She has appeared in Chinese, German, Russian, Spanish, Japanese and Thai editions of Vogue, as well as Vanity Fair France, Russh, WSJ, L'Officiel USA, and T.

As an artist, Googe has featured her works in Los Angeles.

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The public source identifies “Amanda Googe” as american fashion model and artist. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Amanda, Googe and American.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current 136-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1993-03-27. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Amanda, Googe and American providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from Amanda Googe” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.