Niane, Katoucha

Niane, Katoucha
▪ 2009

      Guinean-born French fashion model

born 1960, Conakry, Guinea

found dead Feb. 28, 2008, Paris, France
became the muse of French designer Yves Saint Laurent in the 1980s as one of the first black African top models in Paris. Katoucha, as she was known, arrived in Paris in the early 1980s and soon began working for Thierry Mugler, Paco Rabanne, and Christian Lacroix before beginning her long association with Saint Laurent. She retired from modeling in 1994 and began a campaign against female genital mutilation, which she had been made to undergo at the age of nine. She was declared missing in early February after her handbag was found on her houseboat but she had disappeared; her body was found in the Seine River.

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