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Elle Macpherson

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July 24, 2026
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Elle Macpherson at the Women's World Awards 2009 in Vienna, Austria

Elle Macpherson at the 2009 Women’s World Awards. Photo by Manfred Werner - Tsui, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Watermarked by IAM.com®.

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Elle Macpherson at the 2009 Women’s World Awards. Photo by Manfred Werner – Tsui, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Watermarked by IAM.com®.

Eleanor Nancy Macpherson, born March 29, 1964, in Killara, New South Wales, is the Australian fashion model, businesswoman, and television host the world knows by a magazine’s name and a magazine’s nickname. Elle, the name, came first: she was the American edition’s constant presence for six straight years in the 1980s, its covers and pages built around her by the photographer who was also her husband. The Body, the nickname, came from Time in 1989, and it stuck because it described the product. At 183 cm with an athlete’s carriage and a swimmer’s ease in front of a camera, Macpherson sold health where the era’s other faces sold artifice. She never read as fragile or remote; she read as a tall, capable Australian who happened to photograph like the weather clearing, and that readability, warm, direct, faintly amused, is what made her the swimsuit era’s defining cover subject.

The career started as a funding plan. An 18-year-old law student stopped in New York on the way home from a ski holiday in Aspen in 1982, signed with Click Model Management to earn money for her textbooks, and never made it back to the lecture hall. A Tab cola commercial made her Australia’s girl next door the same year; Biotherm gave her a European beauty contract by 1985; and Sports Illustrated put her on the Swimsuit Issue cover in 1986, then 1987, then 1988, then 1994, then 2006, a record five covers no model has matched. What she did with the fame is the second, and commercially bigger, story. She left Ford Models in 1994 to run herself through Elle Macpherson Inc., had already flipped a 1989 Bendon endorsement offer into a licensed lingerie line bearing her own name, and spent the next three decades converting the nickname into brands: Elle Macpherson Intimates, The Body, and, since 2014, the wellness company WelleCo.

Today Macpherson lives in Miami and works mostly on the founder side of the camera as WelleCo’s creative director, though the bookings never entirely stopped: she walked Melbourne Fashion Festival in 2024 and fronts Bonds’ Bases Flex underwear campaign in 2026, at 61, alongside models half her age. Her 2024 memoir, elle, and its disclosure of a private 2017 breast cancer diagnosis put her back at the center of a public conversation, this time about wellness, medicine, and the right to choose one’s own path, and she has met it the way she has met everything else across four decades: on her own terms.

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Quick Facts

Real Name:Eleanor Nancy Macpherson (née Gow)
Profession:Fashion model, businesswoman, and television host
Born:March 29, 1964
Age:62 (as of 2026)
Birthplace:Killara, New South Wales, Australia
Nationality:Australian
Height:183 cm (6 ft 0 in)
Modeling Type(s):Fashion and runway; editorial and swimwear
Discovered / Path In:Signed with Click Model Management in New York in 1982 after an Aspen ski holiday, planning to model for a year to pay for law school books
Runway Debut:Mid-1980s, New York (debut show undocumented; she was walking American collections such as Perry Ellis by 1986)
Agency / Representation:Self-managed through Elle Macpherson Inc. since 1994; listed on D’Management Group’s celebrity board (Milan)
Known For:A record five Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue covers and the Time-coined nickname “The Body”; the supermodel-to-founder second act (Elle Macpherson Intimates, WelleCo)
Notable Campaigns & Covers:Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue covers (1986, 1987, 1988, 1994, 2006); Time, 1989; the six-year Elle run; Biotherm (1985); Revlon (2008–2011); Bonds Bases Flex (2026)
Awards:Glamour Women of the Year Entrepreneur of the Year (2005); Elle Style Awards Style Icon (2006); Green Carpet Fashion Awards Wellness Award (2018)
Zodiac Sign:Aries
Relationship:Partnered with American musician Doyle Bramhall II (together since 2022)
Years Active:1982 to present
Elle Macpherson at a public appearance in 2008
Elle Macpherson at a public appearance in 2008. Photo by Y! Música, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Elle Macpherson at the CW Upfront presentation in New York in 2009
Elle Macpherson at the CW Upfront presentation in New York in 2009. Photo by Kristin Dos Santos, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Elle Macpherson at the Virgin Blue uniform launch in 2011
Elle Macpherson at the Virgin Blue uniform launch in 2011. Photo by Eva Rinaldi, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Elle Macpherson at a Bryan Ferry signing in Sydney in 2011
Elle Macpherson at a Bryan Ferry signing in Sydney in 2011. Photo by Eva Rinaldi, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Early Life & Education

Eleanor Nancy Gow was born in Killara, on Sydney’s leafy North Shore, on March 29, 1964, one of four children of Peter Gow, a sound engineer and entrepreneur who served as president of the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks rugby league club, and Frances Gow, a nurse. Her parents divorced when she was ten, and the children moved with their mother to East Lindfield; when Frances remarried businessman Neill Macpherson, a school enrollment mix-up recorded Eleanor under her stepfather’s surname, and she simply kept it. The future one-name supermodel was, by every account, a sporty, practical teenager: tall early, a strong swimmer, and academically capable enough to earn her Higher School Certificate at Killara High School in 1981 and a place reading law at the University of Sydney.

The law degree lasted a year, and the discovery story is really a detour story. Before starting university she took a ski holiday in Aspen, Colorado, and on the way home in 1982, at 18, was persuaded by an Australian modeling booker to stop in New York and try for work; she signed with Click Model Management, reasoning that a year of modeling would pay for her law books. It paid for rather more than that. The same year, a television commercial for Tab, the Coca-Cola diet soft drink, made her instantly recognizable at home as Australia’s girl next door, and the bookings compounded from there. The plan to return to Sydney and the lecture hall quietly expired; New York became home for the better part of two decades.

What the early record establishes is that Macpherson entered the industry as neither a scouted child nor a pageant product but a pragmatic adult making a financial decision, and that practicality never left the career. She would later say the analytical instincts of the abandoned law degree served her across four decades of licensing deals and joint ventures. The girl who came to New York to buy textbooks stayed to build companies.

Career Highlights and Milestones

The 1980s made her a face; the arrangement behind the face was unusually literal. Macpherson met French fashion photographer Gilles Bensimon, the creative force of Elle, on a 1984 shoot for the magazine, married him in 1986, and became the publication’s de facto house model: she appeared in every issue of American Elle for six consecutive years, an exposure engine no rival could match. The swimsuit franchise did the rest. Her first Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue cover came in February 1986, followed by 1987 and 1988, the first three-peat of its kind, then a shared 30th-anniversary cover with Kathy Ireland and Rachel Hunter in 1994 and a fifth appearance in 2006 that fixed a record no one has touched. By the time Time put her on its cover in 1989 and coined “The Body,” the nickname was less flattery than market analysis: what Macpherson sold, frame after frame, was vitality, the sunlit, athletic, approachable ideal that American mass fashion wanted in the decade of aerobics and beach culture.

She was a working runway model too, if never primarily a catwalk creature: through the late 1980s and 1990s she walked for Louis Vuitton, Ralph Lauren, Azzedine Alaïa, Donna Karan, Christian Dior, Thierry Mugler, Michael Kors, Perry Ellis, Kenzo, Todd Oldham, Calvin Klein, John Galliano, and Valentino, holding her own in the era of the supermodel cohort The New York Times would call “The Magnificent Seven” in 1996, alongside Evangelista, Turlington, Crawford, Campbell, Christensen, and Schiffer. The crossover years tested the image against other mediums. Woody Allen cast her in Alice (1990); Sirens (1994), in which she played an artist’s model opposite Hugh Grant, was the breakout, and when tabloids began hunting for unauthorized nude photographs afterward, she answered by staging her own: a May 1994 Playboy pictorial shot by Herb Ritts, done, as she put it, on her own terms. Roles followed in Batman & Robin (1997), The Edge (1997), and five episodes of Friends (1999–2000) as Joey’s roommate Janine, plus a Saturday Night Live hosting turn in 1996.

The decisive move, though, was corporate. In 1994 she left Ford Models and incorporated Elle Macpherson Inc. to run her own career, four years after she had already rewritten the model-endorsement playbook: approached by New Zealand’s Bendon Group in 1989 to promote its lingerie, she countered with a licensing arrangement putting her name and design input on the product, and Elle Macpherson Intimates launched in 1990, becoming the best-selling fashion lingerie line in Britain and Australia and one of the first true model-label crossovers. Calendars, a Billboard-charting workout video, The Body skincare line at Boots, a Macpherson Men range, and a board seat at Hot Tuna followed; a 2008 Revlon global ambassadorship added the beauty-contract pinnacle; and television gave her a second screen life as host and executive producer of Britain & Ireland’s Next Top Model (2010–2013) and NBC’s Fashion Star (host of season one, 2012). Marc Jacobs underlined her standing in March 2010 by bringing her back to close Louis Vuitton’s Fall/Winter show in Paris, her first runway in years, and she walked the house again the following season.

The current chapter is the founder chapter, and it has not been controversy-free. The 25-year Bendon license, which she came to call restrictive, ended in December 2014, the same year she co-founded WelleCo with Andrea Horwood and launched The Super Elixir, the alkalizing greens supplement that turned her wellness convictions into a global brand now sold through Selfridges, Net-a-Porter, and its own stores; a joint-venture lingerie relaunch, Elle Macpherson Body, followed in 2016 with Melbourne manufacturer Simon De Winter. Her September 2024 memoir, elle: Life, Lessons, and Learning to Trust Yourself (Penguin Australia; BenBella in the US), disclosed a 2017 diagnosis of HER2-positive, estrogen-receptor-positive ductal carcinoma in situ, and her decision, after a lumpectomy, to decline the recommended mastectomy, chemotherapy, and radiation in favor of what she described as a holistic approach; she says she is in clinical remission, while oncologists quoted across the coverage cautioned publicly that unproven therapies are no substitute for standard care, a dispute reported widely and still framing her wellness advocacy. Earlier, her 2017–2019 relationship with Andrew Wakefield, the struck-off doctor behind the discredited MMR-autism claims, had drawn similar scrutiny in The Times, The Guardian, and the BMJ. None of it has slowed the commercial arc: at 61 she signed as the face of Bonds’ Bases Flex underwear campaign, launched February 2026, and she remains, in her sixties, one of the few 1980s supermodels still booking national campaigns in the present tense.

Selected Career Highlights

  • Tab television commercial makes her Australia’s girl next door (1982)
  • Signs with Click Model Management in New York at 18 (1982)
  • Becomes a face of French skincare house Biotherm (1985)
  • First Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue cover (February 1986), the start of three consecutive covers (1986–1988)
  • Appears in every issue of American Elle for six consecutive years through the mid-to-late 1980s
  • Time cover coins the nickname “The Body” (1989)
  • Elle Macpherson Intimates launches with Bendon after she flips an endorsement offer into a licensing deal (1990)
  • Sirens breakout role, answered by a self-commissioned Playboy pictorial shot by Herb Ritts (1994)
  • Leaves Ford Models to found Elle Macpherson Inc. and manage her own career (1994)
  • Shared 30th-anniversary Sports Illustrated Swimsuit cover with Kathy Ireland and Rachel Hunter (1994)
  • Record fifth Sports Illustrated Swimsuit cover (2006)
  • Signs a three-year global ambassadorship with Revlon (2008)
  • Closes Louis Vuitton’s Fall/Winter 2010 show for Marc Jacobs in Paris, returning the following season (2010–2011)
  • Hosts and executive produces Britain & Ireland’s Next Top Model (2010–2013) and NBC’s Fashion Star (2012)
  • Co-founds WelleCo and launches The Super Elixir (2014); publishes the memoir elle (2024); fronts Bonds’ Bases Flex campaign at 61 (2026)

Major Recognition

  • Honored on a series of Antigua and Barbuda postage stamps in 1999, reported as the first model to appear on a nation’s official stamps
  • Glamour Women of the Year Awards, Entrepreneur of the Year (UK), for the growth of Elle Macpherson Intimates (2005)
  • Style Icon award at the Elle Style Awards, conferred by Elle magazine (2006)
  • NatWest Everywoman Awards Ambassador Award for achievement in business (2007) and the Marie Claire Prix de la Mode marking 20 years in business (2007)
  • Femmy Award, Lingerie Designer of the Year, from the US intimate-apparel industry’s Underfashion Club (2008)
  • World Career Award at the Women’s World Awards in Vienna (2009)
  • Wellness Award at the Green Carpet Fashion Awards Italia at La Scala, Milan, for WelleCo (2018)
  • Portraits of Macpherson by Bob Carlos Clarke are held by London’s National Portrait Gallery, donated by the photographer’s family

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Awards and Accolades

Year Award Category Context Result
1999 Antigua and Barbuda commemorative stamps State recognition Her image issued on a series of the nation’s postage stamps, reported as a first for any model Selected
2005 Glamour Women of the Year Awards Entrepreneur of the Year (UK) For the international growth of Elle Macpherson Intimates Won
2006 Elle Style Awards Style Icon Conferred by Elle magazine, the publication that carried her breakout years Awarded
2007 NatWest Everywoman Awards Ambassador Award Recognizing her success as a businesswoman and role model for women in enterprise Awarded
2007 Marie Claire Prix de la Mode 20 Years in Business (UK) Marking two decades of the Elle Macpherson brand, per her official speaker biography Awarded
2008 Femmy Awards (Underfashion Club) Lingerie Designer of the Year The US intimate-apparel industry’s top design honor Won
2009 Women’s World Awards World Career Award Conferred in Vienna for a career spanning modeling, media, and business Awarded
2018 Green Carpet Fashion Awards Italia Wellness Award For WelleCo; presented at Teatro alla Scala, Milan, during Milan Fashion Week Won

Selected Campaigns & Covers

Year(s) Campaign / Cover Brand / Publication Type Notes
1982 Tab television commercial Tab (The Coca-Cola Company) Campaign The debut that made her a household face in Australia before the passport filled up.
1985 House face Biotherm Campaign An early European beauty contract that signaled the market saw more than a swimsuit booking.
1984–1989 Recurring covers and an every-issue presence Elle (US) Cover Six consecutive years in the magazine, much of it shot by Gilles Bensimon; the image and the name became inseparable.
1986–2006 Five Swimsuit Issue covers (1986, 1987, 1988, 1994, 2006) Sports Illustrated Cover The record that made the nickname: three straight covers, a shared 30th-anniversary cover with Kathy Ireland and Rachel Hunter (1994), and a fifth in 2006 no model has matched.
1989 “The Body” cover story Time Cover The newsweekly cover that coined the nickname and certified her as a mainstream phenomenon, not just a fashion one.
1991–1995 American collections seasons Calvin Klein; Donna Karan; Michael Kors; Todd Oldham Runway New York seasons through the supermodel peak; the runway record also ran to Alaïa, Dior, Mugler, Galliano, and Valentino across the era.
1990–2014 Founder-face of her own line Elle Macpherson Intimates (Bendon) Campaign She fronted the label she licensed and designed, one of the first model-label crossovers; the brand became Britain and Australia’s best-selling fashion lingerie line.
1994 Nude pictorial, May issue Playboy Editorial Shot by Herb Ritts and commissioned by Macpherson herself to preempt tabloid photo-hunting after Sirens; authorship was the point.
2008–2011 Global brand ambassador Revlon Ambassadorship The beauty-contract pinnacle of the second act, signed in March 2008 as a three-year deal.
2010–2011 Runway return, closing the Fall/Winter 2010 show Louis Vuitton Runway Closing slot conferred by Marc Jacobs in Paris, a decade after her last catwalk era; she returned for the following season.
2024 Triumphant x PayPal Runway Melbourne Fashion Festival Runway Walked for Australian designers including Ngali and Bianca Spender at 59, a working answer to the question of whether she still models.
2026 Bases Flex, “Let’s Talk About Flex” Bonds Campaign Fronting the Australian basics giant at 61 alongside Shanina Shaik and Jennifer Atilémile; the collection launched February 16, 2026.

Agency & Representation History

Years Agency / Representation Market(s) Notes
1982–late 1980s Click Model Management New York The first signing, made on the 1982 New York stopover; Click launched the American bookings that funded, then replaced, the law degree.
Late 1980s–1994 Ford Models New York; worldwide Her agency through the supermodel peak; the exact date of the Click-to-Ford move is not publicly documented.
1994–present Elle Macpherson Inc. (self-managed) Worldwide She left Ford in 1994 to incorporate her own company as the financial and organizational base for the career, an early and influential model-as-CEO move.
2020s–present D’Management Group (celebrity division) Milan; Europe Listed on the Milan agency’s celebrity board for European bookings alongside her own management.

Business & Media Ventures

Years Venture / Production Role Notes
1990–2014 Elle Macpherson Intimates (with Bendon) Founder, licensor; chief marketing officer, later creative director The licensing flip she proposed to Bendon in 1989; best-selling fashion lingerie line in Britain and Australia, with the Obsidian sub-brand added in 2010, before the 25-year partnership ended December 31, 2014, with brand sales reported around $100 million worldwide (WWD).
1992–1995 Calendars and Your Personal Best: The Body workout video Producer and subject Three sell-out calendars with making-of television specials (1992–1994) and a 1995 workout video her speaker biography credits as a Billboard best-seller of the year.
2005–2014 Elle Macpherson The Body Founder Bath, body, and skincare carried by Boots in the UK, later an intimate-apparel line at JCPenney under the Bendon license.
2010–2013 Britain & Ireland’s Next Top Model Host and executive producer Took over the franchise in July 2010 and fronted it for four seasons.
2012–2013 Fashion Star (NBC) Host (season one) and executive producer The US network fashion-competition swing; she stepped back from hosting after the first season.
2014–present WelleCo Co-founder and creative director Founded with Andrea Horwood around her 50th birthday; flagship product The Super Elixir launched May 2014 and sold out four times in the UK in its first months, with the brand since carried by Selfridges, Net-a-Porter, and its own SoHo flagship.
2016–present Elle Macpherson Body Co-founder (joint venture) The post-Bendon lingerie relaunch as a 50/50 venture with Melbourne manufacturer Simon De Winter, stocked by Myer, David Jones, and US department stores.
2024 elle: Life, Lessons, and Learning to Trust Yourself Author The memoir, published by Penguin in Australia (September 2024) and BenBella in the US (November 2024), with an audiobook made with partner Doyle Bramhall II.

Net Worth, Income, & Lifestyle

Net Worth (2026)Public estimates vary widely. Macpherson has not disclosed a verified net worth figure; Celebrity Net Worth’s frequently cited estimate is $95 million. Treat numbers found online as unconfirmed.
Income SourcesCampaign and editorial fees, runway fees, beauty and fragrance contracts, brand ambassadorships, licensing royalties, television hosting and producing, book earnings, and equity in her own companies, above all WelleCo and Elle Macpherson Body.
Contracts & Brand PartnershipsThe Bendon license (1990–2014) generated reported worldwide brand sales of about $100 million a year by its end (WWD); Tatler reported as early as 2002 that the lingerie business out-earned her modeling. Revlon signed her to a three-year global ambassadorship in 2008, and Bonds made her the face of Bases Flex in 2026.
Properties & AssetsMost detailed financial and property information is kept private, and reliable public documentation is limited. Reported transactions include an $8.1 million Coral Gables home purchased in 2018 and listed in 2022, per Celebrity Net Worth.
LifestyleBased in Miami after decades split between New York and London; sober since 2003 and open about it; the day runs on WelleCo, the water, and the wellness routines she has turned into the business itself.

Social Media & Online Presence

InstagramOfficial account: @ellemacpherson (verified), with roughly 814,000 followers; the bio reads “Goddess with guts” and anchors her founder-era public voice.
TikTokNo verified personal account; WelleCo posts founder content at @welleco, so treat any “Elle Macpherson” TikTok profile with caution.
X (Twitter)A longstanding @ellemacpherson handle exists but is little used; treat unverified activity there with caution.
FacebookNo actively maintained official personal page; WelleCo’s brand pages carry her announcements.
YouTubeNo personal channel; WelleCo’s official channel carries her interviews and brand films.
Agency ProfileCelebrity board listing at D’Management Group, her Milan representation.
Official WebsiteHer company site at welleco.com, the primary official online home for founder news and interviews.

NOTE: In addition to any official accounts listed above, many fan-run pages, appreciation accounts, and fashion-history accounts exist across platforms. These are not confirmed to be affiliated with Elle Macpherson or her companies. Links and usernames can change at any time.

Trivia & Lesser-Known Facts

  • Macpherson is a stepfather’s surname she never legally chose so much as inherited by accident: after her mother remarried Neill Macpherson, a school enrollment mix-up recorded her under the new family name, and she kept it.
  • Billy Joel, whom she dated in the early 1980s, has said “This Night” and “And So It Goes” were written about their relationship, and she is widely reported as at least part of the inspiration for “Uptown Girl.”
  • Her float in the Sydney 2000 Olympic closing ceremony’s Parade of Icons was built as a giant camera lens with its own miniature runway; the design drawings are held by Sydney’s Powerhouse Museum.
  • She co-hosted the Miss Universe 2001 pageant with fellow supermodel Naomi Campbell, and the Australian government once courted her as an unofficial tourism ambassador.
  • She speaks fluent French and can get by in Italian and Spanish, a legacy of the Paris seasons and an Italian film (South Kensington, 2001) on the acting resume.
  • She has been sober since 2003 and marked 20 years in 2023 by posting her AA anniversary chip, a milestone she discusses openly in her memoir.

Quotes

“I have learned that love is what really matters.”

– Elle Macpherson, elle: Life, Lessons, and Learning to Trust Yourself (2024)

“The supermodel movement facilitated the uniqueness of women.”

– Elle Macpherson, interview with HELLO! (2023)

“I spent many years tending to my outer appearance as ‘The Body.'”

– Elle Macpherson, interview with Body+Soul (2024)

“I’ve never felt more free and alive than I do now.”

– Elle Macpherson, interview with HELLO! (2026)

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Q: What is Elle Macpherson’s age?
A: She is 62, born March 29, 1964, in Killara, New South Wales, Australia.

Q: What is Elle Macpherson best known for?
A: A record five Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue covers (1986, 1987, 1988, 1994, 2006), the Time-coined nickname “The Body,” her six-year run in American Elle, and one of modeling’s most successful business second acts, from Elle Macpherson Intimates to WelleCo.

Q: Is Elle Macpherson still modeling?
A: Selectively, yes. Her day job is running WelleCo as co-founder and creative director, but she walked Melbourne Fashion Festival in 2024 and fronts Bonds’ Bases Flex underwear campaign launched in February 2026.

Q: How was Elle Macpherson discovered?
A: There was no schoolyard scouting story. At 18, returning from a 1982 ski holiday in Aspen, she stopped in New York at a booker’s urging, signed with Click Model Management, and planned to model for a year to pay for her University of Sydney law books. The year never ended.

Q: Which agency represents Elle Macpherson?
A: She has managed herself through her own company, Elle Macpherson Inc., since leaving Ford Models in 1994, and is currently listed on the celebrity board of Milan’s D’Management Group.

Q: What are Elle Macpherson’s most famous campaigns and covers?
A: The five Sports Illustrated Swimsuit covers, the 1989 Time cover, the Elle years, Biotherm (1985), the Revlon global ambassadorship (2008), her own Elle Macpherson Intimates campaigns, and Bonds’ Bases Flex (2026).

Q: Does Elle Macpherson have official social media?
A: Yes: the verified Instagram account @ellemacpherson, with brand channels run by WelleCo; she has no verified personal TikTok or YouTube presence.

Upcoming Campaigns & Projects

  • Bonds Bases Flex campaign rollout (Bonds, Australia, through 2026): the “Let’s Talk About Flex” campaign launched February 16, 2026, with Macpherson fronting the range alongside Shanina Shaik and Jennifer Atilémile; further drops and campaign phases are subject to the brand’s announcements.
  • WelleCo product and retail activity (ongoing): the brand continues trading internationally; no new product launches have been formally announced as of July 2026, and any expansion should be treated as subject to change until confirmed by the company.
  • Fashion week and runway bookings (none announced): no shows confirmed for upcoming seasons as of July 2026; campaign work in this vertical is embargoed by default, so treat any reported booking as unconfirmed until the brand or organizer announces it.

Interviews & Features

  • HELLO!, “90s star Elle Macpherson looks ageless as she celebrates her 62nd birthday” (2026), a birthday interview in which she calls her sixties “my most vibrant decade” and reflects on life in Miami.
  • TODAY, “Elle Macpherson reveals breast cancer diagnosis, why she rejected traditional treatment” (2024), the health desk’s report on the memoir’s disclosure, with oncologists’ context on her treatment choices.
  • South China Morning Post, “Supermodel Elle Macpherson describes her holistic approach to breast cancer in new book” (2024), a memoir feature drawing on her Australian Women’s Weekly interview.
  • WWD, “Elle Macpherson Photos: The Fashion Moments Through the Years” (2023), the trade’s archival retrospective of her runway and event record from Perry Ellis 1986 onward.
  • B&T, “Elle Macpherson Leads New Bonds ‘Let’s Talk About Flex’ Campaign” (2026), the Australian ad-trade report on the Bases Flex launch and campaign strategy.

Public Appearances & Events

  • Bonds Bases Flex launch, Sydney (February 2026): Macpherson fronted the campaign’s launch across Sydney and Australian media, with the collection hitting Bonds stores and retailers from February 16 and coverage running well into April.
  • ELLE Style Awards, Madrid (June 4, 2025): appeared at the awards at the Teatro Real in Madrid, nearly two decades after collecting the event’s Style Icon honor.
  • Paris Fashion Week, Paris (March 4, 2025): attended the Christian Dior Fall/Winter 2025–2026 show photocall in Paris, continuing a run of Dior front-row appearances stretching back through the 2022 Seville cruise show.
  • Melbourne Fashion Festival, Melbourne (March 4, 2024): returned to the runway in Melbourne, walking the Triumphant x PayPal show in designs by Ngali and Bianca Spender at 59.
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