Tao Okamoto is a Japanese

Japanese people

The are an ethnic group originating in the Japanese archipelago and are the predominant ethnic group of Japan. Worldwide, approximately 130 million people are of Japanese descent; of these, approximately 127 million are residents of Japan. People of Japanese ancestry who live in other countries...

 model

Model (person)

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 who was the face of Ralph Lauren

Polo Ralph Lauren

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Career

Okamoto's first agency was Elite to which she signed on in 2006. She made her first runway debut on the Emanuel Ungaro

Emanuel Ungaro

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 and Martin Grant shows in Paris

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 that same year. The next year, she walked her first New York Fashion Week shows for Marc Jacobs

Marc Jacobs

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 and Cynthia Steffe. Marking her first work for a fashion magazine was her Glamour

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editorial in 2007.

Teen Vogue

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called her a "rising star" in September 2009, and featured her as "Girl of the Moment" in its December/January 2010 issue. Vogue Japan

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dedicated its November 2009 magazine cover and all of the magazines editorials to her, noting her as a supermodel-in-rising. She has appeared in advertising campaigns for Ralph Lauren

Ralph Lauren

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, Benetton

Benetton Group

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, HM

HM

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, GAP

Gap

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, Zac Posen

Zac Posen

- Early life :Posen was raised in the SoHo neighborhood of lower Manhattan, the son of artist Stephen Posen and corporate lawyer Susan Posen. His interest in fashion design started early, and as a child he would steal yarmulkes from his grandparents' synagogue to make ball dresses for dolls...

, Kenneth Cole

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, and Uniqlo Heattech. She has appeared in editorials for Allure

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, Harper's Bazaar

Harper's Bazaar

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, V magazine

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, and Chinese, Japanese, French, American, and Russian Vogue

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...

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