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Photos: Eileen Ford | 1922 - 2014

Ford Models' Super Model of the World grand prize winner, Natalyia Gotsky, accepts her award from Ford Models co-founder Eileen Ford in 2004 in New York City.

Ford Models’ Super Model of the World grand prize winner, Natalyia Gotsky, accepts her award from Ford Models co-founder Eileen Ford in 2004 in New York City.  (Evan Agostini / Getty Images)

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Eileen Ford, a co-founder of Ford Models, died Wednesday, a spokesperson for the company confirmed Thursday. She was 92. Ford, who founded the agency with her husband, Gerald Ford, is widely credited with pioneering the modern modeling agency.

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Eileen Ford and her husband, Gerald Ford, attend Ford Models’ Super Model of the World contest in 2004 in New York City.  (Evan Agostini / Getty Images)

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Ford Models founders Gerald and Eileen Ford pose with model Roshumba Williams and stylist Phillip Bloch at Ford Models’ Supermodel of the World after-party at New York’s Bryant Park Hotel in 2004.  (Evan Agostini / Getty Images)

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Ford Models co-founder Eileen Ford attends the Ford Supermodel of the World contest at Skylight Studios in 2007 in New York City.  (Brad Barket / Getty Images)

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Eileen Ford of Ford Models shaped a generation’s standards of beauty as she built a modeling empire and launched the careers of Candice Bergen, Lauren Hutton and Jane Fonda.   (Marty Lederhandler / Associated Press)

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