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Eileen Ford, Dead at 92

Transformed modeling industry during 60-year career.

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By: TOM BRANNA

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Eileen Ford, who created the concept of supermodel in the beauty and fashion industry, died on Wednesday in Morristown, N.J. She was 92. Her company, Ford Models, created by Ford and her husband, Jerry, in the late 1940s, became the top agency in the world. It reinvented the modeling business with $1 million contracts for the elite few and brought class and decorum to what had been a seedy business, according to observers.  Some of Ford's best-known models included: Christie Brinkley, Cher...

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