Pearl Amoah is a

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ian former model and beauty pageant titleholder. She is currently ordained minister. She was Miss Northern Region in 1994, Miss Ghana Universe in 1996 and the Miss Ghana International pageant in 2015. She also won the Africa Ebony model of the year in 1999.In 2000 she was given the best

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of the millennium award at the Millennium Excellency Awards.She has modeled in the

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and

Initiatives

She established PAF Outlet, the first boutique solely dedicated to Ghanaian fashion brands. In 1999 she set up Fashion House. She also has PearlProjects to showcase her creativity and design prowess. She introduced the Ghana Fashion Week in 2001. It is organized every year for elite fashion designers in Africa to converge and appreciate their craft. She launched her own line Pearl in 2004. Later that same year, she joined forces with

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and the JosephPearl brand was launched. The following year, their first boutique was opened in Soho,

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Career in modeling

She has modeled for fashion brands like

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, Vivien Westwood,

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, Jakie Rogers,

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, Valentino and others. She has been shot by photographers such as Peter Lindberg, Dewy Nicks,

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, Frank Otten and Gean-Luca for various magazines like

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, Paris Voici,

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, Black Elegance,

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, and

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Education

She had her secondary education at the

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. Her

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which is in

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, is from Westbourne University in

. She also has a diploma in Architecture &

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from

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Personal life

She hails from La in

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and is the only child of her mother the late Madam Bernice Adjeley Adjei. She got married in 2008 to Mac Diamond Kodjo Emekor Nyamekor and has three children.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Amoah, Pearl Living people Ghanaian female models Christian clergy in Ghana Parsons School of Design alumni People from Accra Year of birth missing (living people)