Michele Pommier, who led a transformation of Miami Beach into a modeling magnet with her namesake agency, was an original Virginia Slims model in the 1970s’ “You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby” ad campaign.
At the height of a modeling career that began in 1968, her face was one of the world’s most recognizable. She graced magazine covers like Town & Country, Mademoiselle, McCall’s and Harper’s Bazaar, and she was also the “Clairol Model.”
Pommier modeled alongside pre-“American Gigolo” actress Lauren Hutton with lions and panthers strolling around the pair on the set early in her career. She partied at New York’s Studio 54 in the late-1970s with movie and rock stars that included Mick Jagger, Liza Minnelli and Cher, and jetted off to exotic locales around the world for photo shoots…