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About Alek Wek
South Sudanese-British model and designer
Alek Wek is a South Sudanese-British model and designer, born in 1977. She began her fashion career at 18, in 1995, and became known for reshaping ideas of beauty in the fashion industry. She is from the Dinka ethnic group in South Sudan and fled to Britain in 1991 during the civil war in Sudan. In 2015, she was named one of the BBC's 100 Women.
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- “My experience as a refugee had made me strong; I could survive anything, even the world of fashion.”Alek Wek
Explore Home
- “Well, one of the things I did was recreate her home in my home.”Debbie Reynolds
- “It's very, very special for me. This is where I've grown up, it's my home, and winning the Monaco Grand Prix…”Nico Rosberg
- “Happy the man, whose wish and careA few paternal acres bound,Content to breathe his native airIn his own grou…”Alexander Pope
Explore Friendship
- “My off-camera friendship with Brock Lesnar has always been different than my off-camera friendship with CM Pu…”Paul Heyman
- “One of my closest friends was a half-black, half-Jewish girl. Another good friend had a shaved head... but I…”Imran Amed
- “she had no stay, no root in herself yet. Well do I know not one human being ought, even were it possible, to…”George MacDonald
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Books by Alek Wek
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2007