Katoucha Niane

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Another runway diva from the 1980s and 1990s. B)

The Versace 1990 Autumn-Winter collection is modelled at a show in Milan.




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French designer Jean-Louis Scherrer displays his women's haute couture line at the 1990-1991 Winter fashion show in Paris. Scherrer is accompanying the model Katoucha, who is wearing a short black sequined dress.



Katoucha displays an outfit at the showing of Yves Saint Laurent's autumn-winter haute couture collection.



A model displays an outfit at the showing of Yves Saint Laurent's autumn-winter haute couture collection.



The Senegalese model Katoucha wears a multicolored one-piece and pastel blue jacket from Christian Lacroix's spring-summer haute couture collection.



Fashion model Katoucha wears a Valentino Haute Couture women's fashion ensemble from the Italian fashion house's Spring-Summer 1993 fashion show in Paris. The outfit includes a black wide-brimmed hat and a black dress with a lace neck inset.




The Senegalese model graces the catwalk with a toffee-colored, haute couture, gown from the autumn-winter collection by Christian Dior.







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A few pics from the A/W Haute Couture Dior show in 1993.






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Lacroix Haute Couture in 1994

 

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Ungaro Haute Couture
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'Who got the jazz,we got the jazz' I hear that everytime I see this photo by Arthur Elgort. Photo Source:scanned by me

 

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Look at those long legs! And the tilt of the hat!

 

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Closing Scherrer in 1990
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Look at those long legs! And the tilt of the hat!

Cool!

 

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By Irving Penn for Vogue US(1988flower:. Photo Source:scanned by me

 

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"Fashion's Hot Spirit" Bazaar US(1991)scanned by me. Photo Credithillip Dixon

 

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She's has been missing for a few days now. Some articles say she might have fallen in the Seine and drowned. That's terrible.

Katoucha Niane, lors d'un défilé Saint-Laurent en janvier 2002 à Paris. Crédits photo : ASSOCIATED PRESS
L'ex-égérie d'Yves Saint-Laurent n'a plus donné signe de vie depuis six jours. Le mannequin pourrait être tombée dans la Seine.

Elle racontait il y a quelques semaines encore son combat contre l'excision à l'occasion de la publication de son autobiographie. L'ancien top-modèle Katoucha, égérie de la maison Yves Saint-Laurent à la fin des années 1980, n'est pas réapparue à son domicile depuis six jours. Inquiets des circonstances de sa disparition, ses amis ont alerté la police. Tout porte à croire que l'ancien mannequin, surnommée la «Princesse peule», est tombée dans la Seine à l'issue d'une soirée arrosée.
Il est près de deux heures du matin vendredi lorsque, raccompagnée par des amis avec qui elle venait de dîner, Katoucha Niane, aujourd'hui âgée de 47 ans, regagne son domicile parisien, une péniche amarrée le long de la Seine à proximité du pont Alexandre III. Il pleut à verse sur la capitale ce soir-là et, comme à son habitude, l'ex-top d'origine guinéenne, qui fut l'un des premiers mannequins noirs à défiler sur les podiums, porte hauts talons et robe griffée. Selon nos informations, elle est ivre mais renvoie ses amis qui la croient en sécurité à bord. Ceux-ci la laissent, sans savoir que Katoucha habite en fait une deuxième péniche, amarrée à la première. C'est la dernière fois qu'ils l'aperçoivent.
Au matin, le fils du propriétaire de la péniche qui l'héberge découvre son sac à main à l'avant du bateau. A l'intérieur, son téléphone portable, sa carte bancaire ainsi que les lunettes que l'ex-top, pourtant myope, refusait de mettre. Depuis, plus de nouvelles. Alertée lundi par les proches de l'ancien mannequin, la brigade de répression de la délinquance contre la personne (BRDP), spécialisée notamment dans les affaires de disparitions inquiétantes, a été saisie de l'enquête. Selon des sources proches du dossier, les enquêteurs travaillent aujourd'hui sur deux hypothèses, celle de l'accident et celle du suicide, excluant a priori la possibilité d'une agression ou d'une fugue.
En fin d'après-midi, malgré les recherches entreprises par les plongeurs de la Brigade fluviale de Paris, aucune trace n'avait encore été retrouvée. « La Seine enregistre en ce moment des courants particulièrement forts », souligne un enquêteur pour qui le corps de l'ancienne super-top a pu être emporté au loin. L'espoir est bien mince aujourd'hui de retrouver Katoucha vivante. Mère de trois enfants qui vivent aujourd'hui au Sénégal, Katoucha ne sait pas nager selon ses proches.

http://www.lefigaro.fr/actualites/2...66-l-ancien-top-modele-katoucha-a-disparu.php

 

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She's has been missing for a few days now. Some articles say she might have fallen in the Seine and drowned. That's terrible.
ttp://www.lefigaro.fr/actualites/2008/02/06/01001-20080206ARTFIG00466-l-ancien-top-modele-katoucha-a-disparu.php

What...OMG that is terrible and I didn't have a clue. Please keep us posted on this story,but I hope she's makes it.

 

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Oh wow, oh no!

 

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Oh wow, oh no!

Okay still no official word,but its really getting sad. I didn't know what to believe at first(lots of things get blown up in the media) likely a bit of denial,but its not looking good at all...
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hByDMKNJXMSiemYKynQvCSv5gFKQ

Paris police seek missing model, former Saint Laurent muse 11 hours ago
PARIS (AFP) — French police were searching Friday for a Guinean former catwalk model, one time muse of the couture giant Yves Saint Laurent, a week after she vanished from her Paris houseboat.
Nicknamed the "black princess", the 47-year-old Katoucha went missing from her home on a central stretch of the River Seine Friday night, according to relatives who reported her missing on Monday.
The mother-of-three disappeared after being dropped off near her home from a party and her handbag was later recovered nearby.
Investigators are exploring all lines of inquiry, including a fatal accident or suicide, and divers trawled the Seine in vain for her body this week.
Born in Conakry, Katoucha worked with the greatest couture stars at the height of her career in the 1980s including Saint Laurent who "loved her enormously", according to Dominique Deroche, head of PR for the designer.
"She was exactly like an Yves Saint Laurent drawing, a proud head on a long neck, very slim but with strong shoulders, made for haute couture."
"She looked magnificent on the catwalk and often wore very powerful outfits -- like a cubist navy blue dress with doves around the neckline."
Katoucha left the catwalk for good in 1994, but in recent years she made headlines as an outspoken campaigner against female circumcision, launching a foundation against the practice.
"Today at the age of 47, I want a woman's combat and I have chosen the battle against excision," she said in a recent interview.
Excised at the age of nine, in her home country Guinea, Katoucha recounted the ordeal in a recent book entitled "In My Flesh".
The daughter of the writer and historian Djibril Tamsir Niane, Katoucha spent an idyllic childhood in Conakry.
"I grew up surrounded byu hibiscus and ylang-ylang flowers. I used to get drunk on the richest perfumes and saw myself as a perfumer or a model," she wrote in the book.
But then her life changed forever.
"We lived in Conakry, life was sweet, then one day mother said we were going to the cinema. And I found myself the victim of a horror movie.
"An unimaginable trauma, that I had never managed to talk about, until I found love and wrote 'In my flesh'," she said.
She said she saw her career as a top model, first with the designer Thierry Mugler, as a form of "revenge" for the horror of excision.
"I embodied the most arrogant and admired kind of feminity, I who was supposed to be diminished."

 

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"She was exactly like an Yves Saint Laurent drawing, a proud head on a long neck, very slim but with strong shoulders, made for haute couture."

I think that will remain the best way to describe her.

Really tragic.

 

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Hands down she remains one of the few greatest catwalkers I've ever seen. The fact that she walked for so long and for so many greats its hard to argue against it. Again I can'tcry accept writing her off until we get a final word,hopefully they give more info especially here in America. I just feel so bad for her kids and family. She was definitely someone I loved to see in the magazines back in the day.
Dior spring/summer 1994 scanned by me. Photo Source:soulstyle

 

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pic from yahoo news from YSL FINAL SHOW IN 2002

& her house boat :

The houseboat 'Petite vitesse' (Low Speed) where former model Katoucha, who has been missing since February 2, was living in Paris. French police were searching Friday for a Guinean former catwalk model, one time muse of the couture giant Yves Saint Laurent, a week after she vanished from her Paris houseboat.(AFP/File/Stephane de Sakutin)

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^Why did it take them a week after,I mean what the hell?!