Alana Zimmer is a Canadian model

Model (person)

A model , sometimes called a mannequin, is a person who is employed to display, advertise and promote commercial products or to serve as a subject of works of art....

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Early life

Alana was born in Kitchener, Ontario

Kitchener, Ontario

The City of Kitchener is a city in Southern Ontario, Canada. It was the Town of Berlin from 1854 until 1912 and the City of Berlin from 1912 until 1916. The city had a population of 204,668 in the Canada 2006 Census...

 on June 9, 1987. She has brown hair and blue eyes and a height of 5 feet and 11 inches.

Career

She was discovered by a friend of a Milan

Milan

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 modeling scout while working at East Side Mario's. She was named a face to watch by WWD, and was featured on Style.com's Top Ten models of Spring 2007. Louisa Models, Storm Models

Storm Models

Storm Model Management is one of the world's leading model agencies, based in Chelsea, London.-Background:The agency has four divisions; , , and which was launched in 2006. Storm was founded in 1987 by Sarah Doukas from her house in London, securing Richard Branson as her business partner.In...

, Supreme, are just some of the agencies that have signed her. She walked in the Spring/Summer 2007 fashion show for Jil Sander, John Galliano

John Galliano

John Charles Galliano CBE, RDI is a Gibraltan-born British fashion designer who was best known as head designer of French haute couture houses Givenchy and Christian Dior , and his own self titled fashion house.-Family:He was born in Gibraltar to a Gibraltarian father, Juan Galliano, and a...

, Pringle of Scotland

Pringle of Scotland

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 and other top designers. Alana has also been in several Haute Couture shows, that include such designers as: Chanel

Chanel

Chanel S.A. is a French fashion house founded by the couturier Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, well established in haute couture, specializing in luxury goods . She gained the name "Coco" while maintaining a career as a singer at a café in France...

, Givenchy

Givenchy

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, Valentino

Valentino SpA

Valentino SpA is a clothing company founded in 1959 by Valentino Garavani. Nowadays it is a part of Valentino Fashion Group. New creative directors Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pier Paolo Piccioli will take Alessandra Facchinetti's seat as creative designer...

 Christian Dior

Christian Dior

Christian Dior , was a French fashion designer, best known as the founder of one of the world's top fashion houses, also called Christian Dior.-Life:...

, and Giorgio Armani

Giorgio Armani

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  She has also done advertisements for Moschino

Moschino

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, Missoni

Missoni

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, Marc Jacobs

Marc Jacobs

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, Jean Paul Gaultier, DKNY

DKNY

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. and Akris

Akris

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. She was on the cover of Russian Vogue in November 2008. Zimmer appeared in an editorial in the March 2011 issue of W, photographed by Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin.