Career
Modeling
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Lima
never thought about being a model, although she had won many beauty pageants in
elementary school. However, she had a friend at school who wanted to enter a
modeling contest and did not want to enter alone, so Lima entered with her.
Both sent in pictures, and the contest sponsor soon asked Lima to come out for
the competition. Soon after, at the age of 15, she entered and finished in
first place in Ford's "Supermodel of Brazil" model search. She
subsequently entered the 1996 Ford "Supermodel of the World" contest
and finished in second place. Three years later, Lima moved to New York
City and signed with Elite
Model Management. After acquiring
representation, Lima's modeling portfolio quickly began to expand, and she
appeared in numerous international editions of Vogue and Marie
Claire. As a runway
model, she has walked the catwalks for designers such as Vera Wang, Giorgio Armani and Valentino, among others. Lima became a GUESS? girl in 2000, appearing in that year's fall
ad campaign. She also appeared in the book A
Second Decade of Guess? Images.
Lima
continued to build upon her portfolio, doing more print work for Maybelline, for whom she worked as a spokesmodel from
2003 until 2009, the same year she appeared in
the company's first calendar, a limited edition run also featuring Kemp Muhl, Jessica White,Julia Stegner, and Anna Wang. Lima has also worked for notable fashion brands bebe, Armani, Versace, BCBG and Louis Vuitton. She also appeared on the covers and in the editorials of
other fashion magazines such as Harper's Bazaar, ELLE, GQ, Arena, Vogue, V, Esquire and French Revue
des Modes. Her April 2006 GQ cover was the
highest-selling issue that magazine for the year. She also appeared
in the 2005 Pirelli Calendar and became the face
of Italy's cell phone carrier, Telecom Italia
Mobile, a move that
earned her the nickname, "the Catherine Zeta-Jones of Italy."
In
February 2008, Lima was featured on the cover of Esquire, re-creating the classic 1966 Angie Dickinson cover on Esquire's
75th anniversary along with fellow Victoria's Secret Angels Alessandra Ambrosio, Karolina Kurkova, Izabel Goulart and Selita Ebanks. She
appeared only in shoes, diamonds and gloves for the November 2007 issue of Vanity Fair celebrating 20 years of supermodels with her fellow Angels. In February 2008, she was chosen to be the face of Mexico'sLiverpool department store
chain and launched the partnership with a press conference, runway show, and
summer campaign. Lima returned to the high fashion runway in 2009, walking for Givenchy. That same year, after visiting Turkey, Lima
signed a contract with Doritos to appear in print
campaigns and commercials which began airing in Turkey that April. She was also
one of the faces of Givenchy for the Fall/Winter 2009 season, alongside Mariacarla Boscono and Iris
Strubegger. Lima is one of the two faces of Blumarine's Fall/Winter 2011 season.
In
2011, Lima signed a deal as a spokeswoman for Megacity by Votsu, a Brazilian
social gaming company, to appear in their commercials. She also became the face of Brazilian luxury brand, Forum for
their F/W season. Adriana Lima has worked with the most
established photographers in fashion such as Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh
Matidin, Vincent Peters, Mario Sorrenti, Mert Alas and Marcus
Piggott and David Sims.
In
2006, Lima ranked as the fifth highest paid supermodel. In 2007 and 2008, she
ranked as the world's fourth highest paid supermodel by Forbes Magazine
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Victoria's Secret
Lima is probably best known for her work with Victoria's Secret. Her first fashion show for the company came in
1999, and since being contracted as an Angel in 2000, she has appeared on
subsequent shows ever since, opening the show in 2003, 2007, 2008, and 2010. Lima
has appeared on several television ads for the brand, including the praised and
criticized "Angel in Venice"
commercial of 2003 with Bob Dylan and her
solo Victoria's Secret's Super Bowl XLII ad, the single most-seen ad of the game, watched
by 103.7 million viewers. 2008 continued for Lima with
hosting the What Is
Sexy? program
for the E! Entertainment Network and a July tour for the BioFit Uplift Bra
launch. She was also featured in November's Miracle Bra relaunch. Topping the year off, Lima wore
the "Fantasy Bra" for the 2008 Victoria's Secret Fashion
Show. The bra, created by American jewelry designer Martin Katz, was set with 3,575 black diamonds, 117
certified 1 carat (200 mg) white round diamonds, 34 rubies, and two black
diamond drops totaling 100 carats (20 g). Valued at over $5 million,
the bra carried more than 1,500 carats (300 g).
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In 2009, Lima launched the company's new makeup line, "Christian Siriano for VS Makeup."Lima skipped the 2009 show due
to her pregnancy but she was back for the 2010
Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, in which she wore the "Fantasy Bra"
again, this time created by Damiani called "The Bombshell Fantasy
Bra" valued at $2million.
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