Just like Grace Jones, Kanye West's model girlfriend Amber Rose is fast gaining fame for her stunning figure and shaven head.

As the rapper's launches his new blog KanyeWest.com, he decided to celebrate his new internet venture by showing off the former stripper's shapely figure.

In the risqué shot - an out-take from Rose's Complex magazine shoot last year - the part Italian, part Cape Verdean model recreates Jones's iconic 1978 pose of her holding a microphone while nearly naked.

Seen this somewhere before: Amber Rose recreates Grace Jones's iconic 1978 pose for former partner Jean-Paul Goude

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The original: Grace Jones in the original 1978 image, which was used on the cover of her 1985 album Island Life

The original Jones photo was taken by her former partner Jean-Paul Goude and was published in New York magazine in 1978.

Jones loved the image so much she used it on the front cover of her 1985 compilation album Island Life.

Last year, Rose, 27, recreated a series of Jones album covers for American magazine Complex.

Amazingly, the microphone pose never made the publication, but West clearly decided it was worth being published after putting it on his blog.

The pair started dating exactly a year ago after originally meeting in 2008 when West was engaged to designer Alexis Phifer.

The rapper wanted Rose to star in his Robocop video, but the couple insisted their relationship was purely professional at this stage.

However, after splitting from his fiancée after a six year on/off relationship, Rose and West got together.

West and Rose briefly split last June, but by July, the pair were back together again.

Romance: Kanye West, pictured with Rose at the MTV Video Music Awards last year, have been dating for exactly 12 months

The Philadelphia-born beauty has an exotic lineage, with her mother hailing from the West African island of Cape Verde and an Italian father.

In the interview with Complex magazine last year, Rose spoke of her bisexuality and stripper past, insisting West doesn't mind her colourful background.

She said: 'Yeah, they label me a bisexual freak stripper that beds Kanye on a daily basis.

"Amber Rose, the bisexual, dyke, freak," whatever. I'm extremely open with my sexuality. I can be in love with a woman, I can be in love with a man.

'Kanye knew my life, so when the blogs came out like, “Oh, Kanye do you know she was a stripper, that she used to date girls?” Kanye was like, “Tell me something I don’t know.” Everybody has a life and a past.'