Iman Abdulmajid
Business Energizer and the World's Foremost Voyageur
Iman is one of the most recognizable and well-respected women to ever grace the modelling world. She is one of the best-known high-fashion African models, founder and CEO of IMAN Cosmetics, and the Host and Executive Producer of Project Runway Canada. As a model, entrepreneur, and philanthropist, Iman has been challenging the prevailing notions of beauty and has helped to establish an expectation of diversity within the fashion and cosmetics industries. She has revolutionized the way women with skin of color think about beauty. She is the author of two books, I AM IMAN and The Beauty of Color: The Ultimate Beauty Guide for Skin of Color.
Iman is one of the most recognizable and well-respected women to ever grace the modelling world. She is one of the best-known high-fashion African models, founder and CEO of IMAN Cosmetics, and the Host and Executive Producer of Project Runway Canada. As a model and entrepreneur, Iman has been challenging the prevailing notions of beauty and has helped to establish an expectation of diversity within the fashion and cosmetics industries. She has revolutionized the way women with skin of color think about beauty.
The author of two books, Iman has continued to question the fashion and beauty world’s affect on personal identity. Her first book, I AM IMAN, is an autobiographical sketchbook of her career. Iman’s second book, The Beauty of Color: The Ultimate Beauty Guide for Skin of Color, is the first beauty and makeup book that truly addresses skin tones of multiple ethnicities.
Ever evolving, Iman’s latest accomplishment is Host/Executive Producer for the second season of Project Runway Canada. Further broadening her horizon, gleaned from experience and a keen eye, she has designed IMAN GLOBAL CHIC, a line of handbags, jewellery, and fashion accessories.
In addition to running a global beauty company, Iman is actively involved in several charities, including The Children’s Defense Fund, For All Kids Foundation, Action Against Hunger, and she is a Global Ambassador for Keep a Child Alive. She has conceived and is spearheading a national campaign called I AM AFRICAN to help awareness and raise funds for the AIDS pandemic that is ravaging her homeland. A mother of two, Iman is married to David Bowie.
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Celebrity Appearances
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September 2006The Color of Beauty
The first beauty and make-up book to address skin tones from across the spectrum-including Latina, black, Asian, Indian, Native American, Mediterranean, and Middle Eastern, as well as multiple ethnicities.
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September 2001I Am Iman
Iman's emergence in 1975 sparked an upheavel in cultural identity that continues today, and her first book is a gloriously entertaining hybrid essay on the cultural-cum-political power of good looks. The book's outrageous pop design--by graphic designers Barnbrook Studios--makes it plain that this is not just one woman's success story. I Am Iman captures the funny, infuriating, and often absurd validation of black and ethnic looks in a beauty industry where billions of dollars--and the self-image of women everywhere--are on the line.
