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Tribute to Elsa Benitez

Modeling an orange tank top bikini and a wearing a look of aspiration, Elsa Benitez hit the U.S. fashion scene in 1996 with a sporty fashion shoot in Vogue Magazine . Five years later, Elsa takes the cover of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit 2001 Issue, once again modeling an orange bikini.

While Sports Illustrated will propel Elsa's name to celebrity status in the United States, the supermodel from Sonora, Mexico has been a mainstay of international fashion modeling since the early 1990s. Metrofashion.com was one of the first online fashion magazines to feature Elsa Benitez (in 1996), and we are thrilled that Sports Illustrated has recognized this spectacular fashion talent.

1990s Elsa Benitez came into the fashion modeling world in the 1990s, during a period when celebrity supermodels from the 1980s like Cindy Crawford, Linda Evangelista, and Claudia Schiffer, dominated pop media. While the 80s were the decade of flamboyant fashion closely aligned with rock music, minimalism began to take hold in the mid-1990s. Elsa Benitez, along with a new group of top models including Shalom Harlow and Stella Tennant, appeared on the international runways and in fashion spreads in major fashion magazines. Elsa's tall, sleek frame was ideal for the 1990s look.

Elsa Benitez Articles and Images
(2001) Tribute to Elsa Benitez, SI Swimsuit 2001 Cover
(2000) Elsa Benitez 1995-2000 Fashion Magazine Covers
(1999) Whose Smiling Now?! Elsa Benitez in Vogue December 1999
(1998) The Shot! Elsa Benitez Vogue May 1998 Beach Scene

Tribute to Elsa Benitez

Fashion Covers During the period of 1995-1998, Elsa Benitez graced the cover of Vogue, Marie Claire, Self Magazine, and many others. In Europe she became well-known, especially through British Vogue, which featured Elsa in fashion spreads throughout the period. In America, her face was seen everywhere (e.g. contact lense advertisements, Jones New York print advertising campaigns, etc.), but like many fashion models, she was relatively unknown.

Through Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, and catalog brands like JCrew, American and European topmodels such as Bridget Hall and Latetia Casta rose to fame. It wasn't until Year 2000 when Gisele dominated the runways and Jennifer Lopez rose to pop artist fame that fashion began to take notice of Latin models.

International Fame With Elsa's graceful figure and elegant demeanor, she became a hot commodity on the advertising spokesmodel circuit, and became the spokesmodel for highly respected luxury brand Salvatore Ferragamo. The Ferragamo campaign lifted Elsa's fashion profile to new hieights as the company charted an aggressive retailing expansion campaign in Europe and North America, with Elsa Benitez' face out front.

You may know Elsa Benitez from a more local level - she was featured in eyeglass print advertising for Wal-Mart during 1999-2000. With such a wide range of modeling experience, from the catwalks to luxury brands, from sportswear to consumer products, you can expect to see a lot of Elsa Benitez in the future. So if Elsa's name is new to you while her face seems familiar, chances are you have seen that face hundreds of times. Now Sports Illustrated is putting the face to a name.

The New 1990s TopModel (from Vogue, on beach)
The shot that Sports Illustrated would love to get! Elsa's tall, angular features make her perfect for the athletic, trim image of the 90s American woman. She is currently the spokesmodel for International Concepts. Elsa Benitez is a workhorse in the fashion industry, just like the supermodel that many insiders says she resembles, Linda Evangelista.

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Devil with a red dress (Cosmopolitan, sport look) From magazine covers for Vogue and Cosmopolitan, to runway shots from Milan and Amsterdam, Elsa is everywhere.

Only in her early twenties, Elsa is fast rising to the top of the fashion scene, and is sure to be a fixture of the fashion supermodel world for the turn of the century.

The New 1990s TopModel (from Vogue, on beach)
Space age beauty (from Vogue, freestyle) Elsa was featured in Vogue (America) September 1997 Fall Fashion Issue.

There she appeared in a special feature called "Svelte Pelts" where she showed off coats, skirts, and accessories from her longtime designer/sponsor Dolce & Gabbana, as well as Tom Ford, Gianni Versace, Renaud Pellegrino, and others. In the feature, Elsa wore straight, shoulder-length hair with a blunt curl under to create the American free-spirit look.

Elsa Benitez: Fashion Images

Special Story: Elsa Benitez rules with Elle Italia
Elsa Benitez looks natural and happy on the cover of Elle Italia December 1999, a huge issue with 100s of pages of fashion and style articles. While Elsa has not been seen on American magazine covers recently (most American fashion magazines have been using classic 80s faces for the

Year 2000 winter issues), she is a Star Model on the Elle Magazine website.

The photography is by Russell James, and the fashion is vintage

Gianni Versace. Italian women love to highlights their tummies, and this angelic top is no exception. Has Elsa had a haircut? Well, we'll have to tune in for more Elsa sightings to know for sure.

March 2000: Elsa Benitez appeared on the cover of Self Magazine (February 2000 Issue), from Conde Nast Publications. Elsa has appeared on the cover of Self Magazine in the past. In this picture, she brightens up the coming Spring 2000 season with a sparkling smile highlighting a sea green spring dress from Ralph Lauren Black Label.

You can also catch Elsa in the new Salvatorre Ferragamo print advertising campaign, and ongoing as the St.John spokesmodel. And if you look around in the local mall, you'll probably catch Elsa's smiling face in the front display of an eyeglasses boutique!

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British Vogue Travel Team
Sun-drenched Elsa Benitez sets the summer tone! With her sun-drenched smile and bronzed skin, Elsa Benitez, the red-hot Mexican supermodel now on the Vogue Britain traveling team, can transform even the strangest concoction of a bathing suit into a stunning statement.

We can only hope that her deals with Nine West, Walmart, and other big-name retail advertisers will keep her in strappy sandals and out of the winter boots. And we can always look forward to fall, when we'll see Elsa in sweaters and cordoroy coats, and sharp city suits that define the modern Western woman.

Vogue Paris Glamour
A visually striking layout with Elsa Benitez appears in Vogue Paris Glamour Issue December 1998/January 1999. The series shows Elsa Benitez in a number of experimental photographic poses, with distorted effects.

Some of the images: Elsa lying face up on a cardigram output, Elsa blurred into a kaleidescope image, and Elsa's perfect face with Jackie Onassis hairdo cut-up as in a carnival prank mirror.

All of the images are dreamy and distant, giving the impression of a goddess drifting through transformational stages. One of the best fashion peices in years.

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