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Sophie Ward (model)
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Biography
Sophie Ward was born in PerthPerth, Western Australia
Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,700,000....
, Western Australia
Western Australia
Western Australia is a state of Australia, occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Great Australian Bight and Indian Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east and South Australia to the south-east...
, as the first child of Gary and Claire Ward. She is older sister of model
Model (person)
A model , sometimes called a mannequin, is a person who is employed to display, advertise and promote commercial products or to serve as a subject of works of art....
Gemma Ward
Gemma Ward
Gemma Louise Ward is an Australian fashion model turned actress.-Early life:Gemma Ward was born on 3 November 1987 in Perth, Western Australia, the second of four children of Gary Ward, a doctor, and Claire, a nurse. She has an older sister, Sophie , and younger twin brothers, Oscar and Henry...
and she has younger twin
Twin
A twin is one of two offspring produced in the same pregnancy. Twins can either be monozygotic , meaning that they develop from one zygote that splits and forms two embryos, or dizygotic because they develop from two separate eggs that are fertilized by two separate sperm.In contrast, a fetus...
brothers, Oscar and Henry Ward.
Career
Ward was discovered in 2003 in PerthPerth, Western Australia
Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,700,000....
while in the audience of the "Search for a Supermodel" contest. Judges asked why she was not competing, and she explained that she was there only to watch her younger sister Gemma, who had reached the top 10 of the contest. Her sister's agency offered to represent her, and within several weeks Ward had won her first competition, the "City Face Competition."
Ward has worked for such magazines as Italian Vogue, Harpers Bazaar, Australian Vogue, Follow and Mark magazines. She has been a regular at Fashion Weeks in both Sydney and Melbourne. She has been booked by many designers such as Tsubi, Toni Maticevski, Rebecca Dawson, Alex Perry, Michelle Jank, Tina Kalivas, Alice McCall, Mad Cortes and Scanlan & Theodore. In 2006 Sophie was booked for both London and Paris Haute Couture Fashion Weeks, working with designers such as Giorgio Armani and Diane von Fürstenberg through the IMG agency.
Ward is well known in the industry for her dedication to study. In 2006 she completed a Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Western Australia, majoring in English and European Studies. She also took Philosophy, Linguistics and Anthropology. Ward was published as a writer at 19 in Mark Magazine (2004), and following this wrote for Follow and Australian Vogue (2004) in an issue that was co-edited by her sister.
She has also art directed several music videos, including Ghostwood's 'Red Version' in 2007.