Shanina Shaik
Encyclopedia
Shanina Shaik is a model
from Melbourne, Australia.
heritage, while her father has Pakistan
i and Saudi Arabia
n roots. Born and raised in Melbourne
, Australia she started modeling when she was 8 years old doing small catalogue gigs for Target and K-Mart, but stopped when she started high school and got accepted into an accelerated program, graduating a year before her classmates. People kept telling her to model, so at fifteen she entered the Girlfriend Model Competition, the same contest Abbey Lee Kershaw won years ago, but Shaik didn’t get very far. While agents were interested in her, she was too young to move to Sydney
and nothing was happening in Melbourne, modeling-wise, so she went on to participate on the Australian reality show, Make Me A Supermodel
, ending runner-up to Rhys Uhlich
.
and walked for other designers such as Shipley & Halmos, Abaete
, Mara Hoffman, Lorick, Project Runway
, Trovata
and Richie Rich.In her second season, she scored a show card for the Spring/Summer 2010. Following this she walked for designers Betsey Johnson
, Catherine Malandrino
, Gerlan Jeans, Nary Manivong, Rachel Antonoff and Susan Woo. During the Autumn/Winter 2010 season Shanina walked for Bebe by Kardashian, Emu Australia, Iodice and Project Runway
.
Shaik has appeared in catalogues for Macys, Alloy
, Avon
, Intermix, Urban Outfitters
, Lovable, Burda Style, Spiegel, Free People
, Bloomingdales, JC Penny, Seafolly, Otto, Shop Bop, Sasha Samuel and Ann Taylor. Her advertisements include Aéropostale
, Cotton On, Olay
New Look, Burneo Chocolate, Body & Bath Works 'Dark Kiss' fragrance, Edward Joseph, Imari by Avon, General Pants Co.
, Bauhaus
and Matrix Hair Biolage
Shortly after signing with New York Model Management
, Shaik appeared in an editorial for Seventeen Magazine and Men's Health
. Other appearances include Level Magazine, Orlando Style Magazine, 2 Wheeler Tuner Magazine, Philadelphia Style Magazine, Tu Style and Zink Magazine.
In 2010, Shaik walked in the Spring/Summer 2011 catwalk show for Project Runway
and L.A.M.B.
In 2011 she had no issues finding representation in New York when she switched to NEXT Model Management
, and from Chadwick Model Management to Chic Model Management. She stared in a campaign for Italian lingerie giant Intimissimi
and Australian shoe brand RMK. Shaik has worked for other brands such as Macys, Avon
, Bloomingdales, Free People
, Olay
, Seafolly, Spiegel, JC Penny and Sasha Samuel. She also starred at Rosemount Australian Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2012 walking for {Bless'ed Are The Meek, Guanabana, Karen Neilson, Kirrily Johnston, L.A.M.B., Lisa Blue, Lisa Marie, Miss Unkon, None the Richer, Nookie Beach, Project Runway, Roopa Pemmaraju, Terri Donna, Wonders Cease.
With this year being her third year trying out Shanina scored a breakthrough when she was casted to walk in the 2011 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, making her the fifth Australian along with Miranda Kerr
, Elyse Taylor
, Sarah Stephens
, and Abbey Lee Kershaw to star in the show
) in interviews. She has expressed that it doesn’t fare well for models to be attached to a reality show, but also stated she does not regret it because it's where she met her boyfriend American model Tyson Beckford
while filming in 2008. If she weren't modeling, she’d like to study child psychology.
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....
from Melbourne, Australia.
Early Life
Shanina's mother is of Lithuanian and AustralianAustralian people
Australian people, or simply Australians, are the citizens of Australia. Australia is a multi-ethnic nation, and therefore the term "Australian" is not a racial identifier. Aside from the Indigenous Australian population, nearly all Australians or their ancestors immigrated within the past 230 years...
heritage, while her father has Pakistan
Pakistan
Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
i and Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia , commonly known in British English as Saudi Arabia and in Arabic as as-Sa‘ūdiyyah , is the largest state in Western Asia by land area, constituting the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and the second-largest in the Arab World...
n roots. Born and raised in Melbourne
Melbourne
Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...
, Australia she started modeling when she was 8 years old doing small catalogue gigs for Target and K-Mart, but stopped when she started high school and got accepted into an accelerated program, graduating a year before her classmates. People kept telling her to model, so at fifteen she entered the Girlfriend Model Competition, the same contest Abbey Lee Kershaw won years ago, but Shaik didn’t get very far. While agents were interested in her, she was too young to move to Sydney
Sydney
Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...
and nothing was happening in Melbourne, modeling-wise, so she went on to participate on the Australian reality show, Make Me A Supermodel
Make Me a Supermodel (Australian TV series)
Make Me a Supermodel is an Australian reality television series that is based from the successful British TV series of the same title except that men are also allowed to apply. It debuted on the Seven Network on 6 August 2008...
, ending runner-up to Rhys Uhlich
Rhys Uhlich
Rhys Uhlich is an Australian male model and winner of Channel 7’s Make Me a Supermodel. The national television show, hosted by Jennifer Hawkins, launched Uhlich's media career...
.
Career
In her debut season during the Autumn/Winter 2009 season Shaik walked over 8 shows in New York City. She opened YeohleeYeohlee
Yeohlee Teng is an American fashion designer originally from Malaysia and of Chinese heritage. She received the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award for fashion design in 2004. Her fashion work has been displayed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and Victoria & Albert,...
and walked for other designers such as Shipley & Halmos, Abaete
Abaeté
Abaeté is a municipality in the north of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. As of 2007 the population was 22,474 in a total area of 1,816 km². It became a municipality in 1870.-Location:...
, Mara Hoffman, Lorick, Project Runway
Project Runway
Project Runway is an American reality television series on Lifetime Television, previously on the Bravo network, which focuses on fashion design and is hosted by model Heidi Klum. The contestants compete with each other to create the best clothes and are restricted in time, materials and theme...
, Trovata
Trovata
Trovata is a Newport Beach, California-based clothing company that specializes in casual contemporary apparel. The clothing line has gained notoriety for combining an East Coast preppy look with a West Coast surfing appeal. Trovata is notorious for their use of buttons and stripes...
and Richie Rich.In her second season, she scored a show card for the Spring/Summer 2010. Following this she walked for designers Betsey Johnson
Betsey Johnson
Betsey Johnson is an American fashion designer best known for her feminine and whimsical designs. Many of her designs are considered "over the top" and embellished...
, Catherine Malandrino
Catherine Malandrino
Catherine Malandrino is a fashion designer. She was born in Grenoble, France and now works in New York City as well as in Paris.-Profile:...
, Gerlan Jeans, Nary Manivong, Rachel Antonoff and Susan Woo. During the Autumn/Winter 2010 season Shanina walked for Bebe by Kardashian, Emu Australia, Iodice and Project Runway
Project Runway
Project Runway is an American reality television series on Lifetime Television, previously on the Bravo network, which focuses on fashion design and is hosted by model Heidi Klum. The contestants compete with each other to create the best clothes and are restricted in time, materials and theme...
.
Shaik has appeared in catalogues for Macys, Alloy
Alloy
An alloy is a mixture or metallic solid solution composed of two or more elements. Complete solid solution alloys give single solid phase microstructure, while partial solutions give two or more phases that may or may not be homogeneous in distribution, depending on thermal history...
, Avon
Avon Products
Avon Products, Inc. is a US cosmetics, perfume and toy seller with markets in over 140 countries across the world and sales of $9.9 billion worldwide as of 2007.-Business Model:...
, Intermix, Urban Outfitters
Urban Outfitters
Urban Outfitters, Inc. is a publicly traded American company that owns and operates five retail brands: Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie, Free People, Terrain, and BHLDN....
, Lovable, Burda Style, Spiegel, Free People
Free People
Free People is a retail clothing store which is part of the Urban Outfitters family of companies.-History:In the early 1970s, Dick Hayne opened a store in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and he named it Free People. His store attracted the young people who lived and shopped in the area...
, Bloomingdales, JC Penny, Seafolly, Otto, Shop Bop, Sasha Samuel and Ann Taylor. Her advertisements include Aéropostale
Aéropostale (clothing)
Aéropostale, Inc. is a mall-based, specialty retailer of casual apparel and accessories, principally targeting 14-to-17-year-old young women and men through its Aéropostale stores and 7-to-12-year-old kids through its P.S. from Aéropostale stores...
, Cotton On, Olay
Olay
Olay is an American skin care line. It is one of the top skin care retail brands in the world, except for Japan, and is one of Procter & Gamble's multi-billion dollar brands. For the 2009 fiscal year ended June 30, Olay accounted for an estimated $2.8 billion of P&G's $79 billion in revenue.-Early...
New Look, Burneo Chocolate, Body & Bath Works 'Dark Kiss' fragrance, Edward Joseph, Imari by Avon, General Pants Co.
General Pants Co.
General Pants Co. often referred to as just "General Pants" is an Australian fashion retailer carrying both international and national brands, specialising in street, denim, skate and surf clothing.In addition to the General Pants Co...
, Bauhaus
Bauhaus
', commonly known simply as Bauhaus, was a school in Germany that combined crafts and the fine arts, and was famous for the approach to design that it publicized and taught. It operated from 1919 to 1933. At that time the German term stood for "School of Building".The Bauhaus school was founded by...
and Matrix Hair Biolage
Shortly after signing with New York Model Management
New York Model Management
New York Model Management is a modeling agency based in New York City. New York Models started when Heinz Holba started L.A. Models in 1985. After operating international agencies, he opened New York Models in 1997...
, Shaik appeared in an editorial for Seventeen Magazine and Men's Health
Men's Health (magazine)
Men's Health , published by Rodale Inc. in Emmaus, Pennsylvania, United States, is the world’s largest men’s magazine brand, with 44 editions around the world. It is also the best-selling men's magazine on U.S. newsstands. It covers fitness, nutrition, sexuality, lifestyle and other aspects of...
. Other appearances include Level Magazine, Orlando Style Magazine, 2 Wheeler Tuner Magazine, Philadelphia Style Magazine, Tu Style and Zink Magazine.
In 2010, Shaik walked in the Spring/Summer 2011 catwalk show for Project Runway
Project Runway
Project Runway is an American reality television series on Lifetime Television, previously on the Bravo network, which focuses on fashion design and is hosted by model Heidi Klum. The contestants compete with each other to create the best clothes and are restricted in time, materials and theme...
and L.A.M.B.
In 2011 she had no issues finding representation in New York when she switched to NEXT Model Management
NEXT Model Management
NEXT Model Management is a Global modeling agency with offices in New York City, London, Los Angeles, Miami, Milan and Paris. Founded in 1989 by Faith Kates, the agency is one of the top 3 model agencies in the world...
, and from Chadwick Model Management to Chic Model Management. She stared in a campaign for Italian lingerie giant Intimissimi
Intimissimi
Intimissimi is an Italian clothing label started in 1996 that specializes in bras, briefs, lingerie, vests, and pyjamas for women and men. Intimissimi clothes are sold throughout the world: Austria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Lebanon, Mexico, Poland, Portugal, United...
and Australian shoe brand RMK. Shaik has worked for other brands such as Macys, Avon
Avon
-Rivers:*River Avon or Avon River , various rivers*Avon Water, a river in Scotland*Afon, the Welsh word for river, often anglicised to 'avon'-Canada:*Avon, New Brunswick, in the province of New Brunswick...
, Bloomingdales, Free People
Free People
Free People is a retail clothing store which is part of the Urban Outfitters family of companies.-History:In the early 1970s, Dick Hayne opened a store in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and he named it Free People. His store attracted the young people who lived and shopped in the area...
, Olay
Olay
Olay is an American skin care line. It is one of the top skin care retail brands in the world, except for Japan, and is one of Procter & Gamble's multi-billion dollar brands. For the 2009 fiscal year ended June 30, Olay accounted for an estimated $2.8 billion of P&G's $79 billion in revenue.-Early...
, Seafolly, Spiegel, JC Penny and Sasha Samuel. She also starred at Rosemount Australian Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2012 walking for {Bless'ed Are The Meek, Guanabana, Karen Neilson, Kirrily Johnston, L.A.M.B., Lisa Blue, Lisa Marie, Miss Unkon, None the Richer, Nookie Beach, Project Runway, Roopa Pemmaraju, Terri Donna, Wonders Cease.
With this year being her third year trying out Shanina scored a breakthrough when she was casted to walk in the 2011 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, making her the fifth Australian along with Miranda Kerr
Miranda Kerr
Miranda May Kerr is an Australian model. She is best known as one of the Victoria's Secret Angels since mid-2007. She is the first Australian to participate in the Victoria's Secret campaign and also represents Australian fashion chain David Jones...
, Elyse Taylor
Elyse Taylor
Elyse Taylor is an Australian model. She is best known for her work with the Kensie brand. She walked in the 2009 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show. In 2011, she was named the face of surf brand O'Neill.-External links:...
, Sarah Stephens
Sarah Stephens
Sarah Stephens is an Australian model, best known for winning Girlfriend magazine's Model Search 2006 and walking in the 2008 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show at the age of 18.-Early life:...
, and Abbey Lee Kershaw to star in the show
Personal life
Shaik is adamant of talking about her reality stint (Make Me A SupermodelMake Me a Supermodel (Australian TV series)
Make Me a Supermodel is an Australian reality television series that is based from the successful British TV series of the same title except that men are also allowed to apply. It debuted on the Seven Network on 6 August 2008...
) in interviews. She has expressed that it doesn’t fare well for models to be attached to a reality show, but also stated she does not regret it because it's where she met her boyfriend American model Tyson Beckford
Tyson Beckford
Tyson Craig Beckford is an American male model and actor, best known as a Ralph Lauren model. He was also the host of both seasons of the Bravo program Make Me a Supermodel.-Biography:...
while filming in 2008. If she weren't modeling, she’d like to study child psychology.
Agencies
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, ParisParisParis is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
, and MilanMilanMilan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,... - Munich Models - MunichMunichMunich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...
- 2pm Models - CopenhagenCopenhagenCopenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...
- Chic Model Management - SydneySydneySydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...