Linda Morand Portrays Jackie

 

Telenor Scandanavia 2007

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	The “Worlds Most Exclusive Celebrity Look-Alike" Former Ford Model, Linda Morand has tastefully and artistically portrayed the essence of former First Lady, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis for a selected photographers, TV talk shows, ad campaigns and fashion magazines.
Magazine Appearances Vogue Linda was asked to pose as Jackie for the late fashion super-photographer Helmut Newton, in a ten-page fashion layout in Vogue Paris. The likeness was so estimable that Richard Avedon sent a telegram of congratulations. Esquire  World renowned photographer Peter Beard, who had been married to Jackie's sister, Lee Radizwil, was fascinated by Linda's astonishing resemblance to the elegant Jacqueline he knew so well. He told her that even their mannerisms and gestures were the same, and Linda could easily have passed for Jackie's younger sister. Vanity Fair Annie Liebowitz, the top celebrity photographer in the world, photographed Linda as Jackie for a Vanity Fair. Television Appearances Joan Rivers Show Regis & Kathy Lee Geraldo Rivera House Party Books Double Take Made You Look As the subject of two pictorial spreads and interviews in the current books, “Double Take,” by Devon Cass (Harper Collins) and ‘Made You look!’ by Denise Bella Vlasig. (Thrillienum)	Linda Morand as Jackie MADE YOU LOOK       Latest News Linda just returned from Europe where she appeared in a national campaign for Telenor Here she poses with England's Premiere "Alfred Hitchcock" Ron Borrows See Award Winning Campaign     See Video

Helmut Newton for Vogue

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Double Take	For Vanity Fair	Jackie Promo
With Di Niro	With Elvis	With James Dean, James Earl Jones and Frank Zappa
On the Joan Rivers Show	Formal Portrait	Double Take
Jackie Promo	Jackie in Yellow	With Frank Sinatra, Liz Taylor and Nancy Regan
Interview Double Take	Linda without makeup	Double Take

The Chic Cult:

RESEMBLANCE TO JACKIE PAYS OFF

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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Linda Morand recently met at that chic New York "dive" where Lost Weekend was filmed: P.J.Clarke's, and the two eyed each other suspiciously. There was every reason for the prolonged glance! of cool appraisal. The two are look-alikes 21-year-old Linda being the younger, prettier version. Linda, a successful Ford model who hails from a little town on Long Island, now is one of Europe's top models with her face currently, gracing the pages and covers of the slickest fashion, magazines, such as Italian Vogue, Elle and Jardin de la Mode. Looking like Jacqueline from the neck up and Twiggy from the neck down has catapulted her modeling career onward and upward. Linda, barely 115 pounds, measures in at five feet, 10 inches' and she's all flawless skin and well-placed bones with gangly legs. Designers can't get enough of her.

During high-fashion openings in Rome and Paris she works 16 hours daily at $30 an hour. In New York she would automatically get double that price. Bùt the pay loss is leveled off by the fact that she hobnobs with movie stars, aristocrats and European royalty, who look upon fashion modeling as an art. "Europeans erase class distinction once success has been achieved,", she says;' "After all,my parents run little restaurant on South Hampton, and here I'm a little "star."  Ha ha.!

In the past 18 months the highly eligible Prince; of Liechtenstein has been a frequent escort. Linda has double-dated with Princess Grace and Prince Rainier at Paris's famous Maxim's. She also has socialized with Laurence Harvey, Rod Steiger and Fred Astaire. But last week, the dating game came to an abrupt halt. Linda is marrying an actor, Phillipe Forquet, who recently did a movie with Sandra Dee, "Take Her She's Mine'.  Phillipe is a cousin of the world-famous Italian haute couturier,Frederico Forquet. The wedding will take place in a tiny community in southern,France, St. Paul de Vance, in a Matisse-decorated chapel. The bride will wear copy a Valentino pantsuit for the religious ceremony.The Forquets de Dornes are upper-class and moneyed.

Valentino, the star of italian high fashion, can boast that his most faithful and most famous customer is Jacqueline but he doesn't. Instead his little trick is to have Jackie's look-alike model in his press shows. Valentino has never mentioned the obvious similarity In looks, but always there's that subliminal advertising. Linda can't help but make comparisons. "Cappuci, another Italian designer, is much more flamboyant about making the most of my looks," she says. "He stubbornly insists that I wear wigs exactly like Jackie's lion mane hairdo. I've practiced walking and smiling like her and Cappuci tells me to go through the act on the runway. Valentino doesn't treat me that" way. He "is cool, charming and polite, almost as if I were you-know-who."

The look-alike business came to a head a few years ago when Linda, a teen-ager with no thought of being a mannequin, went to see the Broadway show, "Carnival." During intermission an announcer'roamed the audience with a mike andunexpectedly came across Linda. "We have Jacqueline Kennedy in the audience!' he announced. Linda says: "I was just sitting there peacefully, in the balcony with Aunt Martha and suddenly there was a minor riot over me. It was wonderful! When I got home, Iwent straight to the mirror and started mimicking Jackie. It seemed like such a groovy thing to do. Now, in high-fashion modeling, it has paid off.

Admittedly, looking like Jackie on and off the runway can be a bore: During off hours she wouldn't touch a wig with a 10-foot pole. Her hair is shorn close to the head. And skirts, her forte on the runway, have no place in her private wardrobe which consists of 20 pairs of cuffed trouser made especially for her by Norwegian tailor, Astrid, who has a shop on Rome's busy Via Sistina. Her impeccable silk shirts, all 20 of them, are custom-made by Altertinelli of Rome. Linda's explanation of her all-pants wardrobe: "If I dressed like Jackie in my private life, I would get too much attention on the streets. Being mobbed has certain built-in disadvantages. Pants are a route to anonymity."