Veronica Webb

Veronica Webb is an American model, writer, and television personality. Born in Detroit, she rose to prominence in the late 1980s and 1990s. She has appeared on the covers of Vogue, Essence, and Elle, and walked runways for designers including Gianni Versace, Azzedine Alaïa, Isaac Mizrahi, and Karl Lagerfeld at Chanel. In 1992, Webb became the first Black model to sign an exclusive cosmetics contract, with Revlon. She has contributed essays to The New York Times, Elle, and Interview.

Webb appeared on the covers of major magazines and walked for designers including Alaïa, Isaac Mizrahi, Karl Lagerfeld, and Todd Oldham. In 1992, she signed an exclusive cosmetics contract with Revlon, the first Black model to do so with a major cosmetics company. In 1995, she modeled for the first annual Victoria's Secret Fashion Show.

She appeared in the music video for New Order's " Round and Round" from their 1989 album Technique.

In 1991, Webb made her feature film debut in Spike Lee's Jungle Fever. She has had television roles on Becker and Just Shoot Me!, and was the co-host of the first season of Bravo's Tim Gunn's Guide to Style.

Webb has written essays and columns for Interview, Paper Magazine, Details, Elle, The Sunday Times, The New York Times Syndicate, Condé Nast's Cookie magazine, and Esquire.

Webb married George Robb in 2002. They have two daughters. The couple divorced in 2009. She later married Chris Del Gatto.^{[citation needed]}