[3] Despointes arranged for Dean to do photos with fashion photographer Stephen Gan and makeup artist James Kaliardos.
After graduating high school, Dean moved to Paris, France to pursue modeling, traveling in Europe and Japan.
[6] But after a year and a half, Dean returned to New York to attend Barnard College, majoring in English and French literature.
[10] Dean lives in Red Hook, Brooklyn,[11] with her partner, real estate and food entrepreneur David Selig.
In 1991, Dean founded Visionaire, an art and fashion publication with Stephen Gan and James Kaliardos.
[7][12] Artists who work in collaboration with Visionaire to produce interpretations on a theme are given freedom to push its content and original formats.
Dean continues to run Visionaire with Kaliardos and has grown it from a publication to a company that curates luxury art fashion experiences.
Upon exiting the hallway, the participant is faced with large projections of themselves superimposed into the Marc Jacobs fashion show.