Sara Kapp, In Black and White

Sara Kapp is either strikingly stunning or stunningly striking, depending on one's point of view.

There are only two women I can think of who have this striking, sharp, distinctive look. The other woman is actress Anjelica Huston. :-)

Sara Kapp's role as Borghese's in-house model looms large in her career, but it's not her only major credit. She was a model for one of the many store mannequins manufactured by the Rootstein company, and she was a muse for the late fashion designer Abbijane Schifrin.

Ms. Kapp, who now lives in Italy, once joked about her own appearance while talking about how she entered modeling. She said that anyone looking at her must wonder why she even dared to.

I don't know what she was talking about.

To those who suggest that Sara Kapp is plain-looking, I'd offer the following reply. The woman is just plain, all right - just plain gorgeous! :-)

Supermodel Sara Kapp

Sara Kapp is a model who may not be a household name to many, but to insiders in the modeling trade, she's just as big a star as Naomi Campbell or Cindy Crawford.



Ms. Kapp was at the height of her career in the seventies and the eighties, appearing in ads for clothing and cosmetics.

She was also a huge favorite in runway shows, as the picture below indicates.

In the 1980s, Sara Kapp was the exclusive model for the Princess Marcella Borghese cosmetics brand, and her face appeared in numerous upscale department stores as a result. The pictures at the Borghese counter were enlarged and back-illuminated like photos at any other cosmetics counter, but Sara Kapp didn't need any of that to appear larger than life. She already was. :-)

CNN weatherwoman Jacqui Jeras

Jacqui Jeras is a familiar face to CNN viewers, as she reports on the nation's weather for the cable channel.

Before arriving at CNN, Jacqui Jeras was an on-camera meteorologist for television stations in Indiana and Iowa, as well as an associate producer for WOI-TV in Des Moines. She's covered natural disasters for CNN, and in 2005 she logged 84 hours of coverage of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath.

Actress Teri Hatcher

Okay, can we please stop talking about Teri Hatcher's association with Botox? She's always been a beautiful woman, so why not just leave it at that?

Of course, Teri Hatcher is more than just a pretty face. She's an accomplished actress who has made a big splash over the years, first as Lois Lane in "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman" and as Susan Mayer in "Desperate Housewives."

She's appeared in several other television shows, mostly in one-shot roles, and she played Paris Carver in the 1997 James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies.

Fashion model Linda Fenn

Linda Fenn is a fashion model who enjoyed great success in the eighties.

She was primarily associated with the Wilhelmina agency.

British model Karen Elson

Karen Elson is known now as a fashion model, one who has appeared in ads for Ann Taylor and Christian Dior, among others, as well as covers of magazines like Vogue and Elle. But what she really wants to be is a pop musician.

She's performed in the New York cabaret troupe The Citizens Band, which she co-founded, and she marked 2010 with the release of her debut record, The Ghost Who Walks. She's also married to Jack White of the White Stripes.

CNBC anchorwoman Amanda Drury

Amanda Drury is the latest rising star on NBC Universal's Consumer News and Business Channel.

A former anchor for Bloomberg Television, where she reported on both business and international relations, Drury worked in her native Australia at CNBC's Asian Pacific channel anchoring its editions of "Squawk Box" and "Cash Flow". Before working at CNBC headquarters in New Jersey, Drury worked in Sydney on CNBC's Asia Pacific where she anchored "Squawk Box" and "Cash Flow." She joined CNBC's American headquarters in New Jersey as a co-anchor for "The Call" in May 2010.

Ratings for that show, I understand, have skyrocketed. ;-)