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May 15, 201312 yr amazing news Christy Turlington returns to Calvin Klein As one of the original supermodels, Christy Turlington was famed for starring in Calvin Klein’s game-changing ad campaigns of the 1990s, and now, 20 years later, she’s back The iconic model has been named the face of Calvin Klein Underwear’s autumn/winter 13 collection, donning her Calvins for photographer Mario Sorrenti on location in Puerto Rico. Featuring all the hallmarks of a Calvin Klein ad campaign, the shoot sees her modeling the brand’s sensual, sophisticated designs in an intimate setting bordering on the provocative. Turlington first started working with Calvin Klein in 1987, walking in the brand’s runway show. She was then the face of Calvin Klein Collection before landing a beauty contract for Calvin Klein Eternity. Since then, she’s gone on to campaign for women’s rights, directing the film No Woman, No cry about the global state of maternal health. bazaaruk
May 15, 201312 yr HARPER'S BAZAAR US JUNE/JULY 2013 Christy Turlington by Daniel Jackson newsstand cover + editorial glossynewsstand
May 15, 201312 yr She's having a comeback, Bazaar cover + CK ah love it (hopefully more too) Harpers Bazaar did a retrospective of her best covers: Cover Girl: Christy Turlington's Best Bazaar Covers At 44 years old, supermodel Christy Turlington is still as super as ever. For the first time in 11 years she is gracing our cover again, and in celebration we're taking a look back at all her best BAZAAR covers. Plus, check out her exclusive interview and fashion shoot for the June/July 2013 issue. Read more: October 1992 Christy Turlington Harper's Bazaar Cover - Christy Turlington's Bazaar Covers -
May 15, 201312 yr InterviewWild at Heart: Christy TurlingtonChristy Turlington, model and mother, on how she stays super. Plus, see her best Bazaar covers from over the years. Photographs by Daniel Jackson. Fashion Editor: Julia von Boehm.By Laura BrownChristy Turlington is sitting on a couch in a TriBeCa hotel, kicking one long leg in the air. "I can kick! I can stretch! I'm … 50!" Close your eyes (and maybe an ear) and it's SNL's Sally O'Malley. Turlington laughs. "I've been doing that since I was 28. I can't wait to be 50."In fact, Turlington is 44—and 30 years into a career as what many have called the "ultimate supermodel," she still very much has her powers. But because she models infrequently these days, a Turlington cover has a sense of occasion. "Now I feel like it's a treat again," says the mother of two (Grace, nine, and Finn, seven, with filmmaker husband Edward Burns), "because I do it so seldom. I can appreciate it in a new way."A common perception of Turlington—thanks to her work with her foundation, Every Mother Counts—is that she's a serious type: the supermodel who went to NYU while the others went to clubs. She is exceptionally dedicated, traveling to Washington, Haiti, Guatemala, and Tanzania to campaign for women's issues more often than she gets in front of a camera.But then, though, she's not. Running in from the subway, she throws her bag down and asks, "Wine?," like it's the grandest idea ever. She's dressed in a chic but practical ensemble of a color-blocked Michael Angel coat, an A.P.C. sweater, Givenchy jeans, and Rag & Bone boots, which she has renamed "TriBeCa Mom boots. Every mother here has them. Every one."Turlington has a graceful style, but she doesn't live and die for fashion. Read Kate Moss's recent quote to her ("The last time I saw Christy, she was wearing a twinset. You can think twinset, but you can't wear one"), and she hoots. "Oh, I thought it was funny! Kate's one of the funniest people I know. And it's true—I've never been afraid of a twinset. I think she's talking about when we went to South Africa for this Nelson Mandela charity fashion show. Excuse me, what are you gonna wear, Versace?"Turlington was invited to Moss's 2011 wedding to Jamie Hince, "but I couldn't go because I had just gotten back from Bangladesh and I hadn't seen my kids. Shame, because when I get really messy, I dress up in a twinset. Next time I see Kate, I'm totally wearing one."That is the twist of Turlington: She has merged two disparate worlds—supermodeldom and philanthropy—into a seamless whole. "I know now that duality is in all of us," she says. Midway through her modeling career she recalls realizing, "?'This isn't who I am. It's great, but I want to do other things.' And I was able to do those things because of it and continue doing it on my terms."She is off to Haiti with Every Mother Counts, then, continuing her 25-year relationship with Calvin Klein (as the face of his Eternity fragrance, among other campaigns), she will once again be the face, and body, of Calvin Klein Underwear. "You know, I'm 44 years old, I'm not 14," she says. "I'm healthy, I haven't done anything to myself, I exercise. But," she adds, "I'm not entirely comfortable with myself in underwear either!" She distills the long association into a quip, "Well, I did tell Calvin, with Eternity, 'If you name something that and you put me on it, what the hell do you expect?'"In model years, Turlington's career has been an eternity. She was discovered at 14, while horseback riding in Florida. At 15, she went to Paris, at the suggestion of a model scout. (She'd been to Europe before, including a trip to London at 12 with her father, a Pan Am pilot. "I got in trouble for smoking in the loo. The alarm went off, and my dad was the, um, pilot.") She thought she was terribly sophisticated. "I didn't know that that's a girl's life for the rest of her days," she says, smiling, "somewhere between a lollipop and shots."It was the photographer Arthur Elgort—and the late makeup artist Kevyn Aucoin—who began to make the then 16-year-old super. Interestingly, Turlington, who describes herself as "very observant," was never intimidated. "No! It was so fun and cool because you had a chauffeur pick you up, and you also got booked for weeks." Occasionally she would go on a job and be reading a book while photographers loudly debated her merits, or lack thereof. "I was like, 'These people are ridiculous.' "Conversely, starting to model in her teens saved Turlington from feeling self-conscious. "I was going through the age where most people hate themselves, and I was getting attention in my most awkward years. It wasn't all roses, but I knew enough to take everything with a grain of salt." For example, she is a "clomper. I have a very heavy-footed walk; I always have. But I remember hearing Carlene Cerf [de Dudzeele] saying on a trip for Vogue that I had, 'une grande walk!' And I was like, 'Well, shit!' " She says she was prepared for "people to blow smoke up your bum and not care about you that much afterward. But it actually never happened. People were always really nice."Really nice. "In my teen years, I was hanging out with adults—Steven Meisel, François Nars, Oribe, Paul Cavaco. We had so much fun! We'd go out in New York. I was 16, I was allowed to drink, not wear my shoes. They would pick me up at Eileen Ford's house. They knew I'd get in trouble if I got home past curfew, so they'd drop me off, then honk the horn and terrorize me."In 1988, at 19, Turlington signed with Klein as the face of Eternity. "I love Calvin. He was a huge part of my career. He'd just married Kelly, and it was this whole new era. He told me when he asked me to do the campaign, 'If I weren't married already, I would have asked you!'?" she recalls. "You know, I had five husbands with Eternity. Five!"Then, of course, came the new age: that of the supermodel. "If I were going to be a fashion historian—which I could be, technically, given the amount of years I've been in it—my recollection is that the word was coined by Eileen Ford. She had a modeling competition like Miss America, called Supermodel of the World." Turlington was not a contender, but "I ended up on the cover of British Vogue. So, yeah, I probably will go down in history as one of the original supermodels." Amused pause. "I don't think I'm one of the rotating ones."The rotating ones: Tatjana Patitz, Helena Christensen, Stephanie Seymour. The originals: Linda Evangelista, Naomi Campbell, and Christy, a.k.a. the Trinity. "That's completely made-up," Turlington says. The three were immortalized in two famous pictures. In one, they're drinking champagne in a bathtub, and in the other, they are the hottest three wise monkeys ever: "See no evil" (Christy), "hear no evil," (Naomi), and "speak no evil" (Linda). "I do that with my kids all the time," she adds. As for the bathtub, "we'll do it again when we're old, and we'll need to pull a cord to get out."Gianni Versace and George Michael also helped shape Turlington's legend. Versace was largely credited with creating the supermodel phenomenon. "I did my first campaign for Gianni when I was 16, 17. I went to my first CFDA Awards with him, and I wore one of those old-school mesh dresses. We were dancing and my dress broke, so I have Gianni on his hands and knees sewing it up! That dress I still have. It's lace and it's mesh and it's heavy, and it makes no sense. But it is gorgeous."Also gorgeous, Michael's "Freedom '90" video. The cast came from a British Vogue cover by Peter Lindbergh: Christy, Linda, Naomi, Tatjana, and Cindy Crawford. Turlington and Evangelista filmed their parts on the same day. "She and I have this blood-sister moment [in the video], which now I think, How risqué! I don't know whose fantasy that was. We're really in the closet. Just kidding."Turlington had crammed the song's lyrics on a flight but far from mastered them. "There's this bit when I look through a slatted window, up and down. Anytime I didn't know the words, I had to go down." She throws her head back, laughing. "But then I could not get the bloody song out of my head for the rest of my life."A few years later, Evangelista's apartment was being renovated and she stayed with Turlington. "I'm not a morning person," Turlington says. "She would turn that song on because that was the way to get me out of bed, to shut the thing off!"She describes Evangelista as a "freaking hoot. And that line, 'We don't wake up for less than $10,000 a day'—that's just her sense of humor. I've always defended her on that. We used to laugh because Karl Lagerfeld would say, 'I make a dollar; I keep a dollar,' which was his whole reason for living in Monaco."There's one more iconic image—Herb Ritts's 1989 black-and-white portrait of the naked "supes" draped over one another. "I wasn't there for the original shoot," explains Turlington, whose Eternity contract prohibited her. "I was just there hanging out. But at the end Herb was like, 'Come in, Christy, get in for one.' So I got in for one." The rest is history. "There's postcards, posters. It's been redone so many times. I particularly like the one by the guys who did Jackass."Turlington is often asked which of the "girls" she still sees. "I don't see everyone very often, but we do exchange Christmas cards. I've had lunch with Cindy. And Naomi I see periodically. She's really good—she'll remember a birthday. I'm horrible." She also gets together with Christensen when their mutual friends Bono and Ali Hewson are in town.Her family, of course, is her first priority. She and Burns, who met at a Knicks game, married a decade ago. "I have a poster of me from the Mario Sorrenti Calvin underwear campaign on the back of my husband's bathroom door because we were dating at the time. He was like, 'I'm with that!' And I was like, 'No, you're not.' Today I'm like, 'You can remember that person, now that you know what it's really like to be married to me.'?"Turlington has gotten a kick reminiscing, but now it's back to work, launching the latest Mother's Day campaign for Every Mother Counts. "It's one of the biggest commercial moments in American culture," she says. "We spend up to $19 billion on flowers and candy and stuff that your mom does not want. So how do we educate people in that moment? Every day, 800 women die from pregnancy and childbirth complications. If you love your mother, and if on this day you're going to spend time and energy thinking about her, let's extend that sentiment not just to our moms throughout the year but to other women."While Turlington has transcended her good looks with good works, she's still got her stuff. Of the Bazaar shoot, she says, "Dan [Jackson] said to me, 'When you smile you look like you're 16.' And I'm like, 'Yeah—and then there's my neck.'" To date she has resisted anything more cosmetic than makeup. "I don't know, I feel like it's getting freakier. Maybe there will be a time when you're an oddball because you're the only one left. I'd rather be the only one, the sole survivor. And in that case?" She smiles. "I'll just wear turtlenecks all year-round.""That's a girl's life for the rest of her days— somewhere between a lollipop and shots."http://www.harpersbazaar.com/magazine/cover/christy-turlington-interview-0613
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