Gilles Bensimon
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Gilles Bensimon is a top fashion photographer and the Creative Manager of ELLE magazine. He has also been the photographer on the Reality TV series America's Next Top Model.
Born in Paris, France in 1944, he joined the French ELLE in 1967, where he met his first wife Pascha. When the American ELLE was launched in 1985, Bensimon was invited to join it. Here he photographed many well-known models, including Christy Turlington, Claudia Schiffer, Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell, Honor Fraser and Beverly Peele. In 1985 he also met his second wife, Australian supermodel Elle Macpherson, but they divorced in 1989. In 1999, he became the director of the American ELLE.
He has one child with Pascha, and two daughters with his third wife, journalist Kelly Killoren Bensimon. In January 2006, the couple announced their separation.
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