Amber Evangeline Valletta (born February 9, 1974) is an American fashion model and actress. She began her career as a fashion model, landing her first of sixteen American
Vogue covers at age eighteen. During the 1990s, Valletta reached the status of
supermodel, working as the face of
Giorgio Armani,
Chanel,
Louis Vuitton,
Prada,
Valentino,
Gucci and
Versace, and signing multimillion-dollar cosmetics contracts with
Calvin Klein and
Elizabeth Arden. From 1995 to 1996, Valletta and her friend and fellow model
Shalom Harlow hosted the
MTV show,
House of Style.