A model so beautiful that her work spanned over two decades. A woman so famous she only needed one name. Iman, born as Zara Mohamed Abdulmajid in 1955 Somalia, rose from being a simple university student in Kenya in 1975 to a global phenomenon in the blink of an eye. She was discovered by an American photographer and dropped everything to move to the US and become a model.
It was a move that paid off, big time. From her first cover photo in 1976, in Vogue, to her semi-retirement from high fashion twenty years later, Iman had a statuesque and simply perfect look that few could resist. She became a trendsetter and style maven, paving the road for the countless black models that have lit up the lens since.