Anh Duong

Anh Duong (1960-     ) is a former fashion model turned painter and actress.  Born in Bordeaux, France to a Spanish mother and Vietnamese father, Anh Duong started out as a ballet dancer in Paris.  She was discovered by photographer David Seidner who launched her modeling career when he featured her alongside established model Tina Chow on ads for Yves Saint Laurent in the 1980s.  Soon after she modeled for runways for world top fashion designers such as Emanuel Ungaro, John Galliano, Yohji Yamamoto, Moschino, Christian Dior, Donna Karan, Karl Lagerfeld, Geoffrey Beene, and became the favorite muse of designer Christian Lacroix.  Anh Duong has been featured on editorials for Vogue, Elle and Harper's Bazaar.  Ivana Trump even commented on Vogue magazine once noticing Anh Duong for having the best skin she had ever seen.

In 1988, Anh Duong relocated to New York City and embarked on a new career as a painter under the wings of former boyfriend Julian Schnabel.  It was there she furthered her modeling career appearing on ad campaigns for The Gap, J Crew and Banana Republic.  As a film actress, Anh Duong started out with smaller roles in several Hollywood films such as The Mambo Kings (1992), Scent of a Woman (1992) and My Best Friend's Wedding (1997).  She has also landed meatier roles in a series of independent films such as I Shot Andy Warhol (1996) starring Lili Taylor, Jared Harris and Martha Plimpton, High Art (1998) starring Radha Mitchell, Ally Sheedy and Patricia Clarkson, Appropriate Behavior (2014) starring Desiree Akhavan and Rebecca Henderson, Welcome to New York (2014) starring Gérard Depardieu and Jacqueline Bisset and Creative Control (2015) starring Benjamin Dickinson and Nora Zehetner.  Anh Duong has also costarred in a trilogy of French-language films written and directed by Laetitia Masson including Love Me (2000) with Sandrine Kiberlain and Johnny Hallyday and GHB:  To Be or Not to Be (2014) with Marina Hands and Élodie Bouchez. 

Anh Duong's paintings have been said by critics to convey a signature style often compared with that of the late Frida Kahlo.  Her artwork was first given a museum exhibition in 1997 at P.M.M.K., Provincial Museum of Modern Art, in Ostende, Belgium.   A book about her artwork, Anh Duong (Self) Portraits, was published in 2001.  She was awarded the Veuve Cliquot Tribute to Inspiring Women Award in 2011.  Her portraits have been commissioned by collectors such as Bruno Bischofberger, Diane Von Furstenburg, Aby Rosen, Princess Maria Theresia of Thurn and Taxis, Simon de Pury, Natalia Vodianova and Domenico Dolce.

From 2006 until 2008, Anh Duong was married to architect and heir Barton Hubbard Quillen.  She has been romantically linked previously with Julian Schnabel and auction house owner Simon de Pury.  



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50 Most Beautiful Vietnamese Women of All Time
Anh Duong Official Website