- Older sister of model/actress Suzy Parker.
- She attended Le Cordon Bleu cooking school in Paris and opened a restaurant in France. In the 1970s, she collaborated with Martha Stewart, developing recipes and publishing cookbooks.
- Sister-in-law of actor Bradford Dillman.
- One of the first American supermodels.
- The oldest of five girls of a San Antonio, Texas couple, Dorian brought youngest sister Suzy Parker into the modeling business when Suzy was just a teen. The family moved from Texas and settled in Pomona Park, California when Dorian was a teen.
- Became the signature model of Fire and Ice for Revlon in the 1950s and became a star as a result of their ambitious campaign.
- Well known cover girl often considered the world's first supermodel. She worked in the late 1940s and 1950s, in a time when modeling for photographs was considered the most prestigious segment of the profession.
- She left modeling in the 1960s, and started her own modeling agency in Paris, one of the first in France.
- She appeared on the covers of several magazines, including Look, McCall's and Harper's Bazaar. Prominent photographers with whom she worked include Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Irving Penn and Richard Avedon.
- Has a son named T.L. Hawkins.
- Began her modeling career at a major fashion agency run by Harry Conover.
- Living in Paris. (2007)
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