Quiana Grant

Quiana Grant

Infobox Model
name = Quiana Grant



caption =
imagesize =
birthdate = circa 1982
location = Virginia USA
height = height|ft=5|in=10.5
haircolor = Naturally Black
eyecolor = Black
measurements = 33-24-33 (US); 84-61-84 (EU)
weight =
dress size = 34 (EU), 4 (US)
shoesize = 41 (EU), 10 (US)
homepage =

Quiana Grant is an American model who appeared in the 2008 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. [cite web|url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/features/2008_swimsuit/models/quiana-grant/|title=Quiana Grant|accessdate=2008-02-15|publisher=Sports Illustrated] She was featured in a bodypainting layout as a canvas for bodypaint artist Joanne Gair who is in her tenth year of producing bodypaint art for the Swimsuit Issue. [cite web|url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/features/2008_swimsuit/painting/quiana-grant/index2.html|title=Bodypainting|accessdate=2008-02-15|publisher=Sports Illustrated] She was part of a record-setting class of seven rookie Swimsuit Issue models along with Jessica Gomes, Melissa Haro, Yasmin Brunet, Melissa Baker, Jeisa Chiminazzo and Jarah Mariano.cite web|url=http://www.examiner.com/p-114035~Supermodel_Marisa_Miller_Adorns_the_Cover_of_the_2008_Sports_Illustrated_Swimsuit_Issue_on_Newsstands_Today_.html|title=Supermodel Marisa Miller Adorns the Cover of the 2008 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue on Newsstands Today!|accessdate=2008-02-18|date=2008-02-12|work=examiner.com]

Biography

Grant attended Menchville High School and graduated in 1999. [cite web|url=http://www.dailypress.com/news/dp-now-simodel.f15,0,3843429.story|title=Newport News model makes SI swimsuit debut|accessdate=2008-02-18|date=2008-02-15|publisher=Daily Press|author=Holtzclaw, Mike] She now lives Harlem in city-state|New York|New York, but she considers city-state|Newport News|Virginia to be her hometown.cite web|url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/features/2008_swimsuit/models/quiana-grant/qa.html|title=Quiana Grant's Q&A|accessdate=2008-02-15|publisher=Sports Illustrated] Although Quina was highly sought after for modeling at age 14, she stayed in school until age 16. At age 16, while her mother underwent a series of eye surgeries, she served as her mother's eyes.cite web|url=http://www.maybelline.co.uk/about_us/l282l291l346.htm|title=Quiana Grant|accessdate=2008-02-15|publisher=Maybelline] Her mother had Chorioretinitis and could not even recognize Quiana until she was 13. Her parents are Tony and Regina Grant, and she has a younger brother.

Experience

Quiana was twenty-six years old with over ten years of modeling experience at the time of the release of her debut in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.cite web|url=http://www.dailypress.com/news/local/newport_news/dp-local_simodel_0216feb16,0,1169626.story|title=Her career's going swimmingly|accessdate=2008-02-18|publisher=Daily Press|author=Holtzclaw, Mike|date=2008-02-16] She has modelled for GAP (photos by Steven Meisel) and Maybelline ad campaigns as well as done runway work for numerous leading fashion houses and designers such as Karl Lagerfeld, Michael Kors, Anne Klein and Bill Blass. She is represented by IMG in New York, Modelwerk in Germany, City Models in city-state|Paris|France as well as Vision Model Management.cite web|url=http://www.fashionmodeldirectory.com/models/quiana_grant|title=Quiana Grant|accessdate=2008-02-15|publisher=Fashion Model Directory]

External links

*fashionmodel|id=Quiana_Grant|name=Quiana Grant

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