For more than a decade, Alek Wek has been adorned by fashion masters such as Valentino, Chanel, and Dior. With her dark visage and klieg-light smile, the unconventional Sudanese beauty illuminates international runways and advertising campaigns, turning the fashion industry's idea of marketable beauty on its head.
Though part of an industry that discards women at lightning speed, Wek has never perceived herself as disposable. Perhaps she's been able to keep her meteoric rise to fashion celebrity in perspective. Fleeing a worn-torn country with your parents and eight siblings can do that.
"My mother said we need not sit in pity about what war has done to us." …
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