The Fords "forgave" Willy, and they eventually became close again, but not so as before.Īt Wilhelmina Models, Willy continued to work as a model on top assignments for magazines like Vogue while she ran her agency.
WILHELMINA BECOME A MODEL PROFESSIONAL
After all, Ford Models had groomed Wilhelmina in a consummate professional and took her to the top of the fashion world. Eileen Ford did not take too kindly to having "one of her of her own" become one of her top competitors. Upon the creation of the agency, Wilhelmina was still a top earning model on the books of Ford Models. The agency, called Wilhelmina Models, was an immediate success. At the peak of her success, she and her husband founded in New York City her own agency with the help of two minority partners. She was well praised in the business, was well liked and knew everyone there was to know in the business and around it too. In 1967, Wilhelmina was already one of the most sought after high-fashion supermodels thanks to her working with Ford Models. Wilhelmina wuth her husband Bruce Cooper and children Bruce gave Wilhelmina the confidence and the support that she needed to take on new challenges. He was a former executive producer of Johnny Carson's The Tonight Show. Yet, she had just the right touch of "mod" to compete with the British supermodels like Twiggy and Jean Shrimpton, and the Prussian-born Veruschka. She was elegant, beautiful and had enough class to model the latest couture collections in the top glossy magazines such as Vogue and Harper's Bazaar. By this time, Willy had a modern style of beauty that was easy to promote. They signed her to the agency, and she soon became one of the highest paid models of the 1960s. Willy met with Eileen and Jerry Ford at Ford Models in New York City. And as an agency owner she was known as Wilhelmina Cooper. As a model, the Dutch beauty became internationally famous a Wilhelmina. She had begun to blossom into a beautiful girl. By this time, "Willy" (as she became known to her close circle of friends and colleagues), was fourteen years old. Her family moved to Chicago, Illinois in 1954 for better opportunities.
As both a model and models agent, she enjoyed success, international fame, fortune and respect throughout her career two careers. The 1960's supermodel, Wilhelmina was born in 1940 in the Netherlands.
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