At first this appears to be a very conventional lingerie-world pose: the model, looking at us, inviting us in, perhaps a little tentatively. Unsubscribe at any time. Soon after, Jenny was approached by a casting director while saddling her motorcycle outside an L.A. nightclub and introduced to Calvin and Kelly Klein. Signed Copies of In Intimate Detail are Now Available!Before there were underwear campaigns to Legalize Gay, before lines like Jenny on left, squatting to hide height difference. Soon she was appearing in music videos, guest-starring on Ellen, and eventually modeling for Calvin Klein. Jenny has shot with fashion's most celebrated photographers including Richard Avedon, Bruce Weber, Irving Penn, Steven Meisel, Michael Thompson, Mario Sorrenti, Michel Comte, Mario Testino, Ellen Von Unwerth, Paolo Roversi, David LaChapelle, Sean Mortensen, Dusan Reljin and David Sims to name a few. Has modeled for many fashion designers, including Was arrested on November 7, 1996 for making criminal threats and assault with a firearm. Now 38 and still striking, Shimizu was just 23 when she was scouted while hanging out in front of a club in L.A.. Shimizu featured in Calvin Klein ad Today, androgyny is all the rage on the runway, but Shimizu was one of the first dykes to become internationally known in her industry. Throughout the 90's Jenny appeared in magazine editorials for Italian Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Glamour, Allure, Elle, Marie Clare, Italian Glamour, French Glamour and the cover of Australian Vogue. Was a little-known fashion model prior to being selected to appear in a

by Anita Dolce Vita Model Jenny Shimizu became a household name when Calvin Klein featured her in his infamous 1990s androgynous ad campaigns. I’d like to see more of her, if she wants to model.I love this article so hard. At first this appears to be a very conventional lingerie-world pose: the model, looking at us, inviting us in, perhaps a little tentatively. There was an error submitting your subscription. CK One ad, 1994/Calvin Klein. It’s from a Calvin Klein ad, and it features Shimizu staring seductively at the viewer, hands up under her shirt. Shimizu is a total BAMF and I would love to see her doing work on the regular (or semi-regular) again.The Lingerie Addict is generously supported by its advertisers. Crew, The Gap, L.A. Eyeworks and the United Colors of Benetton. She served one day in jail. There's some nervousness and some curiosity in her gaze. After came Banana Republic's "American Beauty" campaign by Bruce Weber, which cast Jenny front and center on a Times Square billboard. Soon after, Jenny was approached by a casting director while saddling her motorcycle outside an L.A. nightclub and introduced to Calvin and Kelly Klein. Via Modern Weekly China.Another stylistic choice worth talking about, especially when talking lingerie: Jenny Shimizu is almost never seen in a bra. But if you look a little longer, you realize that Shimizu is posing in a mirror.

She also popularized a brand of quiet butch confidence that has become a staple of For an example we can turn to the image above. In addition, she also modeled in the world-renowned Pirelli calendar and was featured in beauty campaigns for Clinique and Shiseido.

She later moved to Los Angeles to open a car garage. We promise to never send you spam. Something about Shimizu makes the fashion industry want to bend their clothes to accommodate her body and her styling, instead of treating her like a blank slate on which to impose a Look.Jenny shown here with famous tattoo, braless.

The model Jenny Shimizu, photographed with a buzz cut and a pair of low-slung jeans, became an underground style icon. This ploy actually worked, thanks in part to a perfectly timed media campaign featuring then au courant models like Jenny Shimizu. Shimizu isn’t looking at us; she’s checking herself out, and she likes what she sees.Over the years, Shimizu’s unfailing self-confidence has become a staple of the way she’s portrayed in spreads ranging from lingerie to outerwear. “All of those Calvin Klein campaigns when I …

At a catwalk show, Jean Paul Gaultier ripped the sleeve off of one of his dresses (representing days or weeks of careful design and tailoring) so that Shimizu’s pinup tattoo of a girl straddling a wrench would be visible. While working as a mechanic, Shimizu was approached to model for the Calvin Klein CK1 fragrance ads and model Calvin Klein fashions. Born in San Jose, California in June 1967, Jenny grew up in Santa Maria, California and attended California State University, Northridge on a basketball scholarship. While working as a mechanic, Shimizu was approached to model for the Calvin Klein CK1 fragrance ads and model Calvin Klein fashions. There's some nervousness and some curiosity in her gaze. She made it not only tolerable but glamorous for a woman to wear masculine underthings. Please consider white-listing thelingerieaddict.com or turning off your ad blocker while visiting the site.Success! A lot of  her images contrast masculinity and femininity, and the choice to be braless is in many ways the ultimate androgynous move: it reveals the breasts but treats them like no big deal. She later was featured in the Banana Republic "American Beauty" campaign. Shimizu was ordered to pay a $200 fine, complete one year of domestic violence counseling, 200 hours of community service and sentenced to three years of probation. The designers were looking for a singular, androgynous face to represent their new fragrance, CK One. From there, Jenny worked for such designers as Versace, Prada, Jean Paul Gaultier, Yohji Yamamoto, Donna Karan, Anna Sui, Thierry Mugler, Levi's, J. She later was featured in the Banana Republic “American Beauty” campaign.

You can imagine Klein was genuinely excited by the famous 1982 Bruce Weber underwear campaign that started it all, or lining up a muscle-tank wearing Jenny Shimizu alongside Kate Moss for the iconic 1994 ads for CK One, the first commercial unisex fragrance. Please try again.Thank you!