Supermodels

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CINDY the best!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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lovevsmodels

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[Liora Loyola]

Gosh looking at all of this makes me wanna cry. Claudia S. is right, the term "supermodel" is dead.

[michelabella]

Here are some of the Supers American Vogue Voguepedia pages, if you want to know a little more...

Christy Turlington

http://www.vogue.com/voguepedia/Christy_Turlington

Cindy Crawford

http://www.vogue.com/voguepedia/Cindy_Crawford

Claudia Schiffer

http://www.vogue.com/voguepedia/Claudia_Schiffer

Linda Evangelista

http://www.vogue.com/voguepedia/Linda_Evangelista

Naomi Campbell

http://www.vogue.com/voguepedia/Naomi_Campbell

Stephanie Seymour

http://www.vogue.com/voguepedia/Stephanie_Seymour

[Ribelin2000]

Gosh looking at all of this makes me wanna cry. Claudia S. is right, the term "supermodel" is dead.

I never could stand that term anyway, "supermodel". The media came up with that shit.

[michelabella]

I don't mind the term until a girl who has done nothing but misc catalogs and no name editorials gets branded one (which happens too often). Then that's a different story.

Chanel Show 1995

VERSACE SHOW 1995

PRADA Show 1995

Jil Sander Show 1995

[michelabella]

Naomi,Claudia,Karen with their dolls, 1996

Karen's thread

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People used to be so excited to see a Valentino or Versace show

Now it's an underwear company and their panty models people are crazy about. :yuckky:

[michelabella]

I was thinking how young girls used to dream of walking down the catwalk or being on the cover of Vogue. If you read interviews of models up and coming during the 90s; those were always their wishes. Now I don't know how many times I read how they dream of being vs angels one day. Just my observations over the years. boy have times changed.

but I can also see why they wish to be Angels as opposed to being on Vogue covers considering models can't land a dang cover anymore. That's a big part of why these girls were stars, IMO. they were on covers every month. People were bound to see them.

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True. Now actresses are on the covers more than models are.

[michelabella]

The End Of The Supermodel

Last week, Forbes published its annual Worlds Top Earning Models List. Gisele Bundchen, as she has for each year of lists existence, vastly out-earned her competitors, this time with an estimated $45 million.

Four years ago, I headed up the first Worlds Top Earning Models list. Before that, models appeared on the annual Celebrity 100 list along with musicians, actors, actresses, directors and other Hollywood entertainers.

At the time, this made sense. Models who appeared on the celebrity list, like Cindy Crawford, Christy Turlington, Christie Brinkley and Claudia Schiffer, seemed part of Hollywood. They starred in movies and music videos, they dated or married movie stars, they cut singles, they were regulars on talk shows, they attracted screaming mobs at malls. Everyone knew their names and faces just like movie stars.

But by 2007, the definition of a supermodel was already beginning to change, and I was having trouble justifying putting some of the top earning models on what was supposed to be a list of Hollywood entertainers. Heidi Klum had a TV show, so fine. Gisele Bundchen and Kate Moss were incredibly famous, so fine. But Adriana Lima? Alessandra Ambrosio? Carolyn Murphy? What did they do besides model? Who, besides those who followed the fashion world closely, even knew who they were?

Thus was born The Worlds Top Earning Models list. On this list a model could be, well, just a model. Here, there was room for Estee Lauder face Hilary Rhoda, Lancome face Daria Werbowy and Calvin Klein muse Natalia Vodianova. These girls didnt do movies. They hardly ever appeared on TV, except for their own fashion ads. And, except for the most fanatical modeling fans, no one had a clue what guys they were dating. Yet these ladies were all at the top of their game and making millions. They needed a list of their own, and they got it.

Looking at the most recent models list, its clear to me that successful models are now even more removed from Hollywood. Most of them are not household names certainly, not in the way that Tyra Banks, Elle MacPherson or Cindy Crawford were in their heyday (and still are).

As beautiful as the new girls are, the names Candice Swanepoel or Lara Stone just do not spark the same excitement that the supermodel trio of Linda Evangelista, Christy Turlington and Naomi Campbell did in the early 1990s. But a decade ago, cosmetic contracts began going to actresses, who figured out that starring in a lipstick ad wouldnt necessarily stop them from winning an Oscar (hello, Halle Berry). And today, pretty women who get well paid and attract legions of fans for not much more than being pretty arent called supermodels theyre called the Kardashians.

The supermodel era, as it was defined two decades ago, is dead.

In its place, however, theres a more interesting model one that has more in common with Wall Street than Hollywood. These days, even the newest models have branched out into licensing deals that encompass everything from clothing and jewelry to fragrances, furniture and food. In fact, a year after The Worlds Top Earning Models list debuted, I headed up The Most Entrepreneurial Supermodels list, which Forbes still runs.

Today, models may not have their own TV shows, starring roles in movies, or even movie star husbands but they have something better. They have the template for a multi-dimensional, multiple-platform career. Not to mention that the supermodels of yesterday are as busy as ever. Many of them such as Kathy Ireland, Tyra Banks and Heidi Klum now head up multi-million dollar or even billion dollar corporations.

So the question isnt Will the era of the supermodel ever return? but How long before we see a few of these supermodels on The Worlds Billionaires list? I predict not too long.

Kiri Blakeley writes about pop culture, women, and models. Follow her on Twitter.

The author is a Forbes contributor. The opinions expressed are those of the writer.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kiriblakeley/2...the-supermodel/

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My favorite of all time

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Beautiful, charming & elegant Karen Mulder

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Amazing supers

[michelabella]

Apparently this is Vogue's best selling issue ever:

scan by jal718

But we were intrigued by one fun fact about Vogue's best-selling issue ever. Hamish Bowles says that it was 1992's 100th anniversary edition, featuring a zillion top supermodels on the cover, that sold the best.

Why? The models, of course. Bowles explains:

"They were the kind of Liz Taylors of the Eighties. They were the ones with the unbelievably glamorous lives and the crazy glamorous boyfriends and they were the girls that everybody wanted to be."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/11/a...kusaolp00000008

[michelabella]

Anna Sui Spills On '90s Supermodel Diva 'Tude

American designer Anna Sui has been in this business for a very long time. So long that she lived — and can clearly recall — the days when supermodels reigned supreme. In her own words, it was a whole different time:

"It was the most terrifying thing to do fittings with supermodels, because they would come in and look at your Polaroid board, and count how many outfits they had, what order they came out in and who were they next to. They would say things like, 'She is taller than me and I am not coming out after her,' 'How come she has three outfits and I only have two' and 'I want that outfit.' They'd literally pull the Polaroid off the board and say they want to wear this. There was a reason they were supermodels, though. When they put on an outfit, everyone was floored."

She goes on about how nowadays it's all about the look and less about the personality. Back in the 1990s the girls ruling the catwalks had personalities as loud as the outfts they wore. Do you miss those supermodel days of Cindy, Naomi, Claudia, Christy, Elle and Linda? I sure do! Take a look at the ulitmate ode to the 90s supermodel — George Michael's Freedom. Oh yeah.

http://www.fabsugar.com.au/Designer-Anna-S...awford-11804340