I knew in a millisecond that this Chanel model has “it” — something in the perfect symmetry of her features that makes you sit up.
Her name is Mona Tougaard, a Danish model currently ranked in the top 50 fashion models at models.com. She comes from Danish, Turkish, Ethiopian and Somali ancestry. (Thanks to HE reader Elio Miguel Garcia Jr.)We’re living through an age in which beauty isn’t the passport it used to be and may even be regarded suspiciously in some corners, but an unsuppressable “whoa” kicked in anyway.
Tougaard reminded me instantly of the late Rosenda Monteros, who played ”Petra”, Horst Buccholz’s love interest, in The Magnificent Seven (‘60) — the mostly silent peasant girl with the smoldering expression.
Monteros also costarred in Tiara Tahiti (‘62) with James Mason and John Mills.
