Kang Seung-Hyun also known as Hyoni Kang, is a Korean fashion model who won Ford's Supermodel of the World

Supermodel of the World (contest)

Supermodel of the World is an international modeling contest established by Eileen Ford in 1980. The contest showcases young fashion model entrants from over 50 countries in order to discover new talent for the fashion industry...

 title in 2008. She is the first model of Asian ancestry to win this award.

Modeling career

After she won the Supermodel of the World contest in January 2008, she participated in that year's New York

New York Fashion Week

The semi-annual New York Fashion Week, branded Mercedes-Benz FashionWeek in 2009, is held in February and September of each year in New York City. It is one of four major fashion weeks held around the world .-History:The first New York Fashion Week, then called Press Week, was the world's first...

 and Paris

Paris Fashion Week

Paris Fashion Week is a famous fashion week held semi-annually in Paris, France with Spring/Summer and Autumn/Winter events held each year. Dates are determined by the French Fashion Federation...

 Fashion Weeks, doing shows like Michael Kors

Michael Kors

Michael Kors is an American fashion designer. He is best known for designing classic American sportswear for women.-Personal life:...

, Rock & Republic, Marc by Marc Jacobs and Sonia Rykiel

Sonia Rykiel

Sonia Rykiel née Flis is a French fashion designer.Ethnically a Polish-Romanian Jew, Sonia Rykiel was born in Neuilly a commune in the western suburbs of Paris, France, the eldest of five daughters of a Polish mother and a Romanian father. At the age of 17, she was employed to dress the window...

. She was on the cover of the Vogue Korea

Vogue (magazine)

Vogue is a fashion and lifestyle magazine that is published monthly in 18 national and one regional edition by Condé Nast.-History:In 1892 Arthur Turnure founded Vogue as a weekly publication in the United States. When he died in 1909, Condé Montrose Nast picked up the magazine and slowly began...

 with Hye Rim Park

Hye Rim Park

Hye-rim Park is a Korean-American model currently signed with Trump Model Management , Take 2 Models , Why Not Models and Viva Model Management . Park made her runway debut during the Fall/Winter 2005 season.Her big break came in early 2005, when Steven Meisel shot her for Italian Vogue prior to...

 in April, 2008. Kang has appeared in advertisements for Benetton

Benetton Group

Benetton Group S.p.A. is a global luxury fashion brand, based in Treviso, Italy. The name comes from the Benetton family who founded the company in 1965. Benetton Group is listed in Milan....

 and catalogs for Victoria's Secret

Victoria's Secret

Victoria's Secret is an American retailer of women's wear, lingerie and beauty products. It is the largest segment of publicly-traded Limited Brands with sales of over US$5 billion and an operating income of $1 billion in 2006...

. She also has a Lacoste Spring/Summer 2009 Campaign along with Alyona Osmanova and Tanya Dziahileva.

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