Charles Frederick Worth began the industry of modelling during 1853.^[1]

• after 1934; during the decade 1930, Margarita Carmen Cansino (Rita Hayworth), ^[2] while within a nightclub located within Tijuana, Mexico — Winfield Sheehan (a producer for Hollywood)^[3][4]
• 1942, Lauren Bacall ^[5][6] was at ^[7] Tony's ^[8] nightclub ^[7] within New York city ^[9] and was subsequently introduced to ^[7] — Nicolas de Gunzburg,^[6][10] at the time, editor of the magazine publication Harper's Bazaar; photographs of Bacall were featured subsequently within six issues of the magazine. ^[10]
• 1960, Jean Shrimpton — David Bailey^[11]
• 1966
  • during a day of the period of January 28 to at least February 4,^[12][13] Lesley Hornby (Twiggy) — Deirdre McSharry, fashion editor of the Daily Express ^[14]
  • November 28,^[11][15] Penelope Tree,^[11] (born in Britain ^[16]) at a party hosted by Truman Capote held within New York City,^[17] at the New York Plaza hotel,^[16] known as Truman Capote's Black and White Ball^[17] —Richard Avedon (a photographer^[18]) (Diana Vreeland (an editor ^[17] for Vogue^[18]),^[16] and Cecil Beaton^[16][19])
• 1978,^[20] Linda Evangelista, while at a Miss Teen Niagara pageant competition – by a scout for Elite model,^[21] a modelling agency ^[22]
• 1985,^[23] Naomi Campbell, while window shopping in Covent Gardens of London^[24] — by Beth Boldt,^[25][26] head of Synchro model management^[27]
• before or during the summer of^[28] 1988, Kate Moss,^[29] with her father^[28] at JFK airport New York, in a queue for a flight to London, returning from a vacation in the Bahamas^[29] – by Sarah Doukas, founder of^[30] Storm Management,^[30][31] first photo shoot (Owen Scarbiena, on Battersea Park) was sometime during the summer of 1988 ^[32]
• 1988, Natalia Vodianova, in a street in Gorky where she and her mother and sisters were selling fruit in a market — a photographer^[33][34][35]
• 1989 (summer of), Shalom Harlow, at a concert of the musical group The Cure — a model scout^[29]

• 2003,^[36] Candice Swanepoel was discovered shopping in a local flea market^[24][37] with her mother^[38] in Durban (province of KwaZulu-Natal^[39]) aged 16 — by Kevin Ellis^[40][41] a model scout^[36]
• 2008,^[42][43] Stella Maxwell, while shopping^[42] in a street of Dunedin^[44][43] — modelling agency Ali McD^[42]