Global Girl of the Month,
Elle Girl US Summer 2002
Photographer: Java
Size: 65K
Devon Aoki
WHO SHE IS
A 19-year old model whose striking looks (she's half Japanese, a
quarter German and a quarter English) made her the face of Chanel.
She is the muse of fashion designer Karl Largerfeld, and is launching
her own denim line later this year.
HOMETOWN
She was born in New York and raised in California. Now she's back
in NYC, where her dad founded the famous Japanese steak-house chain
Benihana.
CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT
A necklace her mother made for her and her Dell.
BIGGEST MISCONCEPTION ABOUT MODELS
"Vastly underestimated brain mass," says Devon, whose
favourite writers include Emerson, Thoreau, Nietzsche and Camus.
BIGGEST MISCONCEPTION ABOUT HER
"My height." As a runway model, people assume she towers,
but Devon is just five-foot-five.
FAVOURITE EXPRESSION
"'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved
at all." (From a poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson).
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