Maria Borges is a 28 year old Angolan model, who was born on 28 October 1992 in Luanda, Angola. She is an orphan, her parents died during Angolan Civil War and her siblings survived, fortunately! After they lost their parents, Maria Borges was raised by her older siblings.
Seems like Maria Borges belongs from a very supportive family background who made it possible for her to come this far and became one of the best super models of Africa right now. Maria Borges’ give all the credits to her elder sister who was all determined to let the model have her education alongside her passion for modelling.
An Angolan female model, who made it to the Hollywood’s fashion industry
Maria Borges left her birth place, Angola and moved in to New York City to pursue her modelling career. Her black Angolan beauty was further discovered by Riccardo Tisci and she calls him ‘God Father,’ because she credits Riccardo Tisci for motivating her not to fit into the beauty standards made by society but also to embrace her own beauty, saying
“If you work hard and keep going, you can achieve something great”
In 2010, Maria Borges participated in the Angolan edition of the modelling contest Elite Model Look, and Maria Borges scored the second position among the participants. Then after two years of the start of her modelling career, Maria Borges signed a contract with a modelling agency, Supreme Agency, and after a month she made her first modelling debut and walked for 17 different runways.
Entering the fashion industry changed her life from water to wine. Indeed Maria Borges is now one of the top models of fashion industry with her positive energy and inspiring story, being an inspiration to many young girls out there.
How she marked the history in Victoria’s Secret Fashion show?
After three years of Maria Borges’ modelling debut, she was appointed to Victoria Secret and became an angel of Victoria Secret in 2013. She did her first hair-show for Givency in Paris, which was a great success. Maria Borges rose to fame in 2015 when she decided she wants to make a difference. In the Victoria’s Secret fashion show, she left the audience amazed and stunned by her out-class confidence and the way she carried herself during the walk because there was something special about her walk that day.
Being a Victoria’s Secret model she embraced her natural hair instead of the hair extensions Victoria Secret use on every model of them. Maria Borges also revealed that she requested her agency to let her walk on the ramp her natural black curly hair. According to Cosmopolitan news, Maria Borges is the first time a woman and a fashion model who wore her natural hair on the Victoria’s Secret runway
Breakthrough for Maria Borges
This bold choice of her granted her a wave of new and bigger opportunities, not just that but this look of here where she embraced her natural black curly hair became the groundbreaking look of the ramps which made it to the headlines when she opted out of the hair weave and signature Victoria Secret waves for her short, black curly natural hair
Later on she became the face of Givency and L’Oreal, for which she expressed her joy in an interview that,
“It is like a dream come true, and I am so happy that we can finally represent all women around the world and show them that we are all beautiful.”
Maria Borges is best known for her bold choice and embracing the looks she inherited, she start to have many bigger opportunities such as appearing in editorials. Maria Borge has appeared in famous editorials for French, Italian, British, Spanish, German, and Portuguese Vogue, German and Australian Harper’s Bazaar, Brazilian Marie Claire, French Numèro.
First African Black Women in 20 years to be featured on the cover of ELLE
After seven years of her modelling career. 20 years later a Sundanese model Alek Wek in 1997 was appeared in the magazine of ELLE, after her Maria Borges has became the first ever African Black Woman to feature on the cover of the America Version of ELLE.
Collaborations with the renowned Fashion Brands
Being a bold model, Maria Borges got many opportunities on her way to work with various renowned fashion brands. She also worked for different campaigns of most famous and renowned brands like Givenchy, Tommy Hilfiger, H&M, Bobbi Brown, C&A, L’Oréal, Mac Cosmetics, and Forever 21.
Why is Maria Borges admire the most by her fans?
Maria Borges is most admire for her effortless ability to pull off any look or any style effortlessly. She is known as a treasure box for her gorgeous physique, positive attitude, humble personality and attractive looks. She is known as the Radiator of Positivity because of her positive attitude towards everything she does. Maria Borges is not just admired by her fans but she is also admired by the people she work with, inspiring woman around the world. Maria Borges is playing an inspiring part in the fashion industry that needs to be change and revolutionized by embracing and accepting herself with all the love.
Who is Maria Borges’ Sweetheart?
The top African model is in love with an American actor Duke Mandiga. They first started dating in 2014. The couple dated for more over 7 years and counting. Soon in the future they are is willing to get marry. However, none of them has not revealed about their first meeting and love affair yet. The couple is known as the most energetic couple by their fans.
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