Elly Tibina Koot Brandt (born 1943) is a Dutch model who won the

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contest in

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, Lebanon. She was born in

Rotterdam Rotterdam ( , ; ; ) is the second-largest List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city in the Netherlands after the national capital of Amsterdam. It is in the Provinces of the Netherlands, province of South Holland, part of the North S ...

, where her mother was visiting family, but grew up in

Amsterdam Amsterdam ( , ; ; ) is the capital of the Netherlands, capital and Municipalities of the Netherlands, largest city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It has a population of 933,680 in June 2024 within the city proper, 1,457,018 in the City Re ...

on the

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near the

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. She was discovered by the fashion photographer Hans Dukkers. She married Frank Brandt in 1966. She and Brandt (at that time a photographer) met while shooting a commercial for Rexona - a brand of deodorant - for which he was a stand in model. Though primarily a photo model, in Amsterdam she did fashion shows for and Fong Leng. From 1970 she also modeled in the United States for the

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agency. In the 70s she was sometimes a jury member at Dutch beauty contests. In 1976 she developed

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for which she had a successful surgery in the United States. Since 1996 she is ''Dame de Salon'' of

Mart Visser Mart Visser (born 10 July 1968) is a Dutch fashion designer and sculptor from Sleeuwijk, Netherlands. Education Visser studied fashion and design at the Hoge School Amsterdam. The Amsterdam Fashion Academy (formerly known as Charles Montai ...

's fashion house in Amsterdam.Georgette Koning
Elly Koot: een leven in de mode
Independent Fashion Daily, 2 December 2011. Miss Amsterdam jury 1973

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* 1943 births Living people Dutch female models Dutch beauty pageant winners Miss Europe winners Models from Amsterdam People from Rotterdam {{Netherlands-bio-stub