Carmen Kass

Carmen Kass ( born September 14, 1978 in Paid ) is an Estonian supermodel and a Schachfunktionärin.

Modeling career

At the age of only 18 years left Carmen Kass her hometown and moved to Paris. Since then, she has featured on numerous covers of magazines such as Vogue (France), Elle (Australia), Image ( UK), Madame Figaro, Numéro France, and Vogue (U.S.), and posed for many major fashion brands, including Marc Jacobs, Michael Kors, Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren, Donna Karan, Dolce & Gabbana, Gucci, Prada, Versace, Fendi, Chanel, Chloé, Valentino, Louis Vuitton and Givenchy.

Caused a stir in 2003 a permissive ad from the fashion company Gucci, which showed a teilentblößten genital area shaved with G-shaped pubic hair. The underlying advertising strategy probably wanted to insinuate an association between the G-spot and the G Initial by Gucci company logo. Allegedly, the woman on the poster Carmen Kass should be. Kass has officially confirmed this, however, never; several sources refer to the Dane Louise Pedersen.

Chess commitment

Kass, the daughter of a chess teacher is and the game already learned in their childhood, in 2004, President of the Chess Federation of Estonia. Their popularity she uses to popularize the game of chess. She is a frequent invited guest of honor at numerous international tournaments. Since 2004 she has been romantically involved with the German chess grandmaster Eric Lobron.

Political commitment

In February 2004, she joined the Conservative Party Res Publica in and entered at the time of election to the European Parliament, but was not elected.

Other activities

In 2004, Kass starred in the Estonian mystery thriller Täna öösel me ei maga ( We will not sleep tonight ) with.