Elyse Taylor

Elyse Taylor (born 20 October 1986) is an Australian model.

Career In 2004, at the age of 18, Taylor was introduced to modelling by one of her friends who was a model who encouraged her to begin a career in the modelling industry. Taylor was signed to Chic Models in the same year, a modelling agency based in Australia. Chic management became her first modelling agency following her introduction to the owner of the agency Ursula Hufnagel. Taylor chose to pursue a career in modelling where she specialises in runway, swimwear and lingerie modelling. During her time signed to Chic Models, Taylor appeared on the cover of GQ Magazine Australia alongside Pania Rose and Sarah Stephens in 2009.

Taylor received her first solo front page cover on October 6, 2009, when she posed on the cover of Vogue Australia.

Taylor has featured in campaigns for Australian fashion brand Kensie and walked in the 2009 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show. As the ambassador of the brand, Taylor was chosen to judge the O'Neill Model Search.

Taylor has appeared on covers for Flair, an Arabic magazine, ELLE Magazine in Sweden, SURE in South Korea, Glamour magazine, V Magazine in the United States, Purple Magazine, Pop magazine and Dazed & Confused magazine in the United Kingdom.

Brand Ambassador

In 2010, Taylor became a brand ambassador for O’Neill Girls, an Australian surf and swimwear clothing brand. Taylor was announced as the official brand ambassador for their Spring 2011 collections. As part of her collaboration with O’Neill Girls, Taylor also launched an exclusive swimwear collection with the branch in 2011 after the Spring collection launch. The “One Way Runway”was launched in Ibiza on June 9th 2013. Additionally, Taylor was a judge for O’Neill Girls model search in 2012. As the brand ambassador, Taylor was chosen by the brand to pick a model for the brand as part of a nationwide model search.

In September 2017, she appeared on the cover of Harper's Bazaar Vietnam, as part of a cover series alongside Shanina Shaik, Lameka Fox, Chanel Iman, Hilary Rhoda and Tobias Sorensen.

Personal life

In 2012, Taylor began dating businessman Seth Campbell. After two years of their relationship, Taylor gave birth to their daughter Lila Louise in 2014 in New York. The couple were married in the same year at Campbells’ family estate outside of New York city. Taylor wore a wedding dress designed by American Fashion Designer Zac Posen. In 2016, Taylor and Campbell filed for a divorced and were divorced within the same year.