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Amy Wesson

American fashion model

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 21, 2025
Entity authorityQ4749446 ↗
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Amy Wesson (born 1977) is an American fashion model from Tupelo, Mississippi.

Career

Wesson was discovered at age 16 while working at a clothing store in a shopping mall. She has been featured in advertising campaigns for Thierry Mugler's Angel perfume, Christian Dior, Versace, Calvin Klein, Valentino, BCBG, Max Azria, Missoni and Moschino.

Wesson has twice landed the cover of Italian Vogue and has also been on the cover of W. She was the cover model for the Smashing Pumpkins' 1998 release Adore.

In 2001, Wesson was featured in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.

She is signed with agencies New York Model Management, Marilyn (Paris), Why Not (Milan), and Modelwerk (Hamburg).

References

Further reading

Mead, Rebecca (1997-11-10). "Rag trade". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2007-10-09.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1977, 1998, 2001, 1997—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1977-09-16. The account is most persuasive where Wesson, American and fashion can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Amy Wesson” 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.