25 year old Brazilian model Isabeli Fontana was photographed by Vincent Peters for the january 2009 issue of the German Vogue.
Fontana was born in Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil. In 1996 she made it to the finals of the Elite Model Look when she was just 13 and in the following year she moved from Southern Brazil to Milan, Italy, to start her modelling career.
In 1999, at the age of 16, she appeared in the Victoria's Secret lingerie catalogue. This created a huge controversy as Victoria's Secret had earlier stated that its policy was not to sign models younger than 21 years old. However, the publicity generated by this proved beneficial to Fontana and she quickly rose to fame.
Soon after the Victoria's Secret shoot, she was signed by Versace, Ralph Lauren and Valentino.
In 2008, she made her debut on the Forbes The World's 15 Top-Earning Models list at place 11, having earned $3 million.
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