Briana Michelle Holmer was born on Sept 30, 1988. A home birth, delivered by her father in the small village of Tina, Missouri, Briana would become the middle child of seven in a happy and active American family. Her father soon moved the growing clutch to the countryside and built a home on 80 acres of green hills and timberland in Livingston County, near Kansas City, Missouri.   She nurtures a close bond with her siblings: Andrea Carol, Erica Denise, Sheena Roxanne, Monica Richelle, Logan Keith, and Jenna Kay.

In her youth, Briana spent her time training and showing her horse, painting, and playing sports at school. She played basketball, softball, and was a jumper in track and field. She also enjoyed hunting, fishing, boating, ice-skating, skiing and archery with her father and siblings. The family enjoyed the benefits of healthful living on wild game, fresh fruit and organic gardening with their mother. At the age of 15, the 5’ 11, green-eyed strawberry-blonde was spotted by a model scout while shopping for a pair of riding boots in town. She soon began traveling to and from St. Louis to walk for local runway shows. She modelled part-time while finishing high-school and competed as an international high-jumper before moving to New York City in 2008, where she began work as a runway and luxury lingerie showroom model for Empreinte, Van De Velde, Prima Donna, Marie Jo, Andres Sarda, Rigby & Peller, Splendid Intimates, and Aubade Paris. In 2022, she moved to Paris and began a leisurely tour of Europe.

Briana studied Design Foundations at Savannah College of Art and Design and Neuroscience and Behavior at Columbia University. Today, you’ll find her somewhere in the world on horseback, perusing art, history and philosophy, searching for a good reason to stop.

FAMILY

Briana’s father, Clint Robin Holmer, was a sixth generation American of Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish Viking ancestry and an avid outdoorsman, sportsman and business owner. Her mother, Louana Ruth McCumber, is an OB nurse who traces her ancestral roots to the founding of America and highland Scotland. Her maternal grandfather, veteran and gunsmith, William Oscar McCumber’s lineage descends from William Macomber who settled in Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1638. His father, John, was a member of America’s founding Mercers guild in Bridport, England and descends from the McComies of Glenshee and Perthshire and the ancient Highland Mackintoshes.