

Ivette Blanche pops up from Hungary in the mid-80s, carries three stage names— Amanda Lauren, Toula, Linda L.—and pours herself into a body that clocks 36C-24-35, a neat 130 lbs, and a leggy 5-foot-8 frame. Those sapphire eyes, that cocoa-brown hair; the look alone could sell ice to Eskimos. She gave up skin shoots, stepped onto the catwalk, and left the rest of the room wondering why they bothered showing up at all.

Ivette Blanche pops up from Hungary in the mid-80s, carries three stage names— Amanda Lauren, Toula, Linda L.—and pours herself into a body that clocks 36C-24-35, a neat 130 lbs, and a leggy 5-foot-8 frame. Those sapphire eyes, that cocoa-brown hair; the look alone could sell ice to Eskimos. She gave up skin shoots, stepped onto the catwalk, and left the rest of the room wondering why they bothered showing up at all.