Hey, I came up with this idea in the Cindy Crawford thread... How about making our own Bellazon ranking of the greatest supermodels in history, based on career length, popularity, earned money and overall significance in the modelling business?

Come on people, we can make it!

Just as long as this doesn't turn into a) the supermodel version of DigitalDreamDoor.com or b) automatically elect Adriana Lima as the greatest, I think it's a cool idea. (Y)

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Number 10

Twiggy

Before there were supermodels, there was Twiggy Lawson (n

Edited December 30, 200519 yr by Qball

Just as long as this doesn't turn into a) the supermodel version of DigitalDreamDoor.com or b) automatically elect Adriana Lima as the greatest, I think it's a cool idea. (Y)

Nah, I really think someone like Cindy Crawford should get the first place... I think we should have an open debate, with all opinions being equal.

EDIT: Thanks so much, Dream Angel. I hope this sets a good starting point for further discussions.

Edited December 30, 200519 yr by Qball

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no prob q-ball lol

Yeah, you tried your best - googling...

http://www.vreflect.com/mayjune2003/showbiz2.html

Gisele is too high, as far as I'm concerned.

I think kate moss should be in this top ten list... She's still one of the most on-demand models after so many years, and she was quite big too in her early days... that's just my thought though lol

I think kate moss should be in this top ten list... She's still one of the most on-demand models after so many years, and she was quite big too in her early days... that's just my thought though lol

No lolling here... I was thinking about her, too.

do i have to provide reasons? i'm feeling lazy

Kate Moss has been around for so long, she made such an impact in the industry. Shes pretty much been riding at the top ever since she started, and continues to do so today.

Do you guys know who Linda Evangelista was... She was much bigger than Cindy Crawford, Elle Mc Pherson and amny many others, she is been one of the biggest of all times, I would certainly put her in the top five ever together with Kate Moss, Gisele, These three girls will go down in history as some of the long lasting models who graced most of top fashion magazines covers especially Vogue, and who did most of the biggest fashion designers campaigns.

Super top models are mostly those who have been used by most top fashion designers for both their fashion shows and campaigns, and by top magazines like W, Vogue, Numero, Citizen K, French, Dutch, The Face, Tank, Harper's Bazaar... and this is just to name a few, Linda Evangelista, Kate Moss, Gisele and only few others did it all and for many years.

^ Oh yeah, Linda Evangelista should be up there. Definitely.

To me, a true supermodel should have been extremely prominant in both High Fashion and Commercially sucessful. However, there are a couple (Elle & Heidi) who --though they have little high fashion experience -- have been TOO successful as commercial models to ignore from the list, IMO. A real supermodel has to be a celebrity as well as a model. They have to have a public persona that makes us care.

So, here's my top 10:

10: ELLE MACPHERSON: Elle may not have done much high fashion work, but she has ruled the commercial modelling industry as good as anyone else. Called "The Body", she was a mainstay in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition as well as on the walls of young men all around the world, thanks to her many successful calendars.

9: HEIDI KLUM: Heidi literally sky-rocketted to the top of the modelling game by landing the cover of the SI Swimsuit Issue as well as a huge contract with Victoria's Secret. She was also given the title of "The Body", filling the void Elle left of the smiley, cheerful brunette. Heidi has taken her modelling fame and turned it into huge media success, with appearances in several films and t.v. shows. She recently took to hosting her own reality show, "Project Runway".

8: CLAUDIA SCHIFFER: Gracing more than 500 magazine covers throughout her extremely successful career, this blonde bombshell captivated everyone with her curvy body and gorgeous features. As one of the "Fab 5" supermodels who reigned in the early 1990s, Claudia made millions of dollars walking the runways and representing the face of Revlon cosmetics. She has always been a celebrity as well as a top model and has never strayed far from the public eye, even as her career has slowed recently.

7 - TYRA BANKS: Tyra began her career as a very successful high fashion model. In fact, she still holds the record for the most shows walked in a model's first season. However, her gorgeous features and stunning figure quickly landed her 3 of the biggest commercial achievements possible for models: the cover of SI's Swimsuit Issue (2 consecutive years) as well as multi-million dollar contracts with Victoria's Secret and Covergirl Cosmetics. Though her actual modelling work slowed after the year 2000, Tyra continued breaking down barriers by appearing in several films, making cameo appearances on t.v. shows and by starting her own extremely successful reality show, "America's Next Top Model". Recently, Tyra has gone the route of Oprah and now hosts her own t.v. talk show.

6 - CHRISTY TURLINGTON: Christy has a face that could launch a thousand ships, a face that instantly makes men melt and women jealous, a face that has enjoyed an extremely successful career as one of the world's top supermodels. One of "The Trinity" (along with Naomi and Linda), Christy became everyone's favourite Maybelline girl (arguably bringing the company into public consciousness herself) as well as a mainstay for Calvin Klein and his underwear/fragrance lines. She has preferred to stay out of the public eye as much as possible, opting to not make the change to Hollywood, but people will always crave Christy.

5 - LINDA EVANGELISTA: One of "The Trinity", Linda was perhaps the most ubiquitous model of the first half of the 1990s. Her famous face has graced hundreds of covers of the world's most significant fashion magazines. She is also the supermodel who uttered the now infamous, "I wouldn't get out of bed for less than $10,000" line. Over 15 years into her career, Linda still makes cameo appearances on certain runways and rakes in the dough posing for advertising campaigns. Her looks have been described as chameleon-like because of her uncanny ability to reinvent her appearance and morph from high fashion diva to commercial goddess.

4 - GISELE BUNDCHEN: The "boobs from Brazil" took the fashion world by storm. She literally stomped her way down every major runway on earth and led the way for the huge Brazilian Invasion that happened at the turn of the millenium. Gisele has graced more fashion magazine covers than anyone else in the history of the business, even more than fellow supermodel Cindy Crawford. Her walk has spawned countless imitators and copycats, and with her lucrative Victoria's Secret contract Gisele is now the highest paid model on Earth. Now seperated from her longterm off-and-on boyfriend, Leo Dicaprio, Gisele is one of the world's hottest bachelorettes.

3 - KATE MOSS: Kate changed the fashion world in the mid-1990s with her frail waif-like body and quirky face. She introduced the "heroin-chic" ideal and literally marked the end of the glamazon era. Kate has never been out of the public eye, and has always sparked some type of controversy, be it due to her racy Calvin Klein ads, her many high-profile Hollywood relationships, or more recently with photographs of her indulging in a little of Columbia's best. However, it's not just controversy that keeps Kate in the pages of the world's glossy mags: she is renowned as a style-maker as her casual style is relentlessly copied by women throughout the world. Kate is truly a high-fashion icon and is constantly the name that designers mention as their true contemporary muse.

2 - NAOMI CAMPBELL: "To touch her skin is like heaven..." So says fellow supermodel Elle MacPherson of Naomi. A fellow "Trinity", Naomi represented the ethnic face of the supermodels of the early 1990s. She broke down countless doors for women of colour and hasn't stopped yet. Naomi has been on countless magazine covers and in inumerable editorials. She's been snapped by every significant photographer and is highly involved in worldy charities and international events. Still one of the world's most sought-after runway models, Naomi (dubbed "Queen of the runway") has one of the most recognizable walks on Earth. It's not so much as walk as it is a strut --- and one well-deserved after almost 2 decades as one of the most famous faces in the world of fashion.

1 - CINDY CRAWFORD: If the fashion world could choose one face as an icon of perfection, it would undoubtably be Cindy Crawford. She parlayed her gorgeous girl-next-door looks into a tremendously successful modelling career incomparable to anything before or since. With a multi-million dollar Revlon contract and having been on over 600 magazine covers, she is easily the most recognizeable model face on Earth. Even her name rolls off your tongue, and now 2 decades into her career, she still does the odd campaign and editorial, though most of her time is focused around her family.

lovely top 10 happycandian

The Trinity are my favourites and Cindy

To me, a true supermodel should have been extremely prominant in both High Fashion and Commercially sucessful. However, there are a couple (Elle & Heidi) who --though they have little high fashion experience -- have been TOO successful as commercial models to ignore from the list, IMO. A real supermodel has to be a celebrity as well as a model. They have to have a public persona that makes us care.

So, here's my top 10:

10: ELLE MACPHERSON: Elle may not have done much high fashion work, but she has ruled the commercial modelling industry as good as anyone else. Called "The Body", she was a mainstay in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition as well as on the walls of young men all around the world, thanks to her many successful calendars.

9: HEIDI KLUM: Heidi literally sky-rocketted to the top of the modelling game by landing the cover of the SI Swimsuit Issue as well as a huge contract with Victoria's Secret. She was also given the title of "The Body", filling the void Elle left of the smiley, cheerful brunette. Heidi has taken her modelling fame and turned it into huge media success, with appearances in several films and t.v. shows. She recently took to hosting her own reality show, "Project Runway".

8: CLAUDIA SCHIFFER: Gracing more than 500 magazine covers throughout her extremely successful career, this blonde bombshell captivated everyone with her curvy body and gorgeous features. As one of the "Fab 5" supermodels who reigned in the early 1990s, Claudia made millions of dollars walking the runways and representing the face of Revlon cosmetics. She has always been a celebrity as well as a top model and has never strayed far from the public eye, even as her career has slowed recently.

7 - TYRA BANKS: Tyra began her career as a very successful high fashion model. In fact, she still holds the record for the most shows walked in a model's first season. However, her gorgeous features and stunning figure quickly landed her 3 of the biggest commercial achievements possible for models: the cover of SI's Swimsuit Issue (2 consecutive years) as well as multi-million dollar contracts with Victoria's Secret and Covergirl Cosmetics. Though her actual modelling work slowed after the year 2000, Tyra continued breaking down barriers by appearing in several films, making cameo appearances on t.v. shows and by starting her own extremely successful reality show, "America's Next Top Model". Recently, Tyra has gone the route of Oprah and now hosts her own t.v. talk show.

6 - CHRISTY TURLINGTON: Christy has a face that could launch a thousand ships, a face that instantly makes men melt and women jealous, a face that has enjoyed an extremely successful career as one of the world's top supermodels. One of "The Trinity" (along with Naomi and Linda), Christy became everyone's favourite Maybelline girl (arguably bringing the company into public consciousness herself) as well as a mainstay for Calvin Klein and his underwear/fragrance lines. She has preferred to stay out of the public eye as much as possible, opting to not make the change to Hollywood, but people will always crave Christy.

5 - LINDA EVANGELISTA: One of "The Trinity", Linda was perhaps the most ubiquitous model of the first half of the 1990s. Her famous face has graced hundreds of covers of the world's most significant fashion magazines. She is also the supermodel who uttered the now infamous, "I wouldn't get out of bed for less than $10,000" line. Over 15 years into her career, Linda still makes cameo appearances on certain runways and rakes in the dough posing for advertising campaigns. Her looks have been described as chameleon-like because of her uncanny ability to reinvent her appearance and morph from high fashion diva to commercial goddess.

4 - GISELE BUNDCHEN: The "boobs from Brazil" took the fashion world by storm. She literally stomped her way down every major runway on earth and led the way for the huge Brazilian Invasion that happened at the turn of the millenium. Gisele has graced more fashion magazine covers than anyone else in the history of the business, even more than fellow supermodel Cindy Crawford. Her walk has spawned countless imitators and copycats, and with her lucrative Victoria's Secret contract Gisele is now the highest paid model on Earth. Now seperated from her longterm off-and-on boyfriend, Leo Dicaprio, Gisele is one of the world's hottest bachelorettes.

3 - KATE MOSS: Kate changed the fashion world in the mid-1990s with her frail waif-like body and quirky face. She introduced the "heroin-chic" ideal and literally marked the end of the glamazon era. Kate has never been out of the public eye, and has always sparked some type of controversy, be it due to her racy Calvin Klein ads, her many high-profile Hollywood relationships, or more recently with photographs of her indulging in a little of Columbia's best. However, it's not just controversy that keeps Kate in the pages of the world's glossy mags: she is renowned as a style-maker as her casual style is relentlessly copied by women throughout the world. Kate is truly a high-fashion icon and is constantly the name that designers mention as their true contemporary muse.

2 - NAOMI CAMPBELL: "To touch her skin is like heaven..." So says fellow supermodel Elle MacPherson of Naomi. A fellow "Trinity", Naomi represented the ethnic face of the supermodels of the early 1990s. She broke down countless doors for women of colour and hasn't stopped yet. Naomi has been on countless magazine covers and in inumerable editorials. She's been snapped by every significant photographer and is highly involved in worldy charities and international events. Still one of the world's most sought-after runway models, Naomi (dubbed "Queen of the runway") has one of the most recognizable walks on Earth. It's not so much as walk as it is a strut --- and one well-deserved after almost 2 decades as one of the most famous faces in the world of fashion.

1 - CINDY CRAWFORD: If the fashion world could choose one face as an icon of perfection, it would undoubtably be Cindy Crawford. She parlayed her gorgeous girl-next-door looks into a tremendously successful modelling career incomparable to anything before or since. With a multi-million dollar Revlon contract and having been on over 600 magazine covers, she is easily the most recognizeable model face on Earth. Even her name rolls off your tongue, and now 2 decades into her career, she still does the odd campaign and editorial, though most of her time is focused around her family.

I have to agree with you, even if Cindy was my favourite in her years, now I see things diffrently, but in a way this top ten is absolutely closer to what I would have put down, however my opinion and that is just mine, Linda, Gisele and Kate Moss are in my eyes those I see as the supertop over all, because no other like them made it so high in the FASHION world, and this is where it's most difficult to go that high. I agree that a supertop is that one who made it both in high fashion and commercially, but a real supertop is the one who did most top fashion designers campaigns and who appaered for years on Vogues covers and other top fashion magazines, kate, gisele and Linda did more than any other.

At least, this is how it's seen in the high fashion industry, and it's first the fashion industry who dictates who is who... no question!

That's a great list, happycanadian! Thanks for your time and effort.

no problem it was from askmen

i love that list but it cant be ten...because to tell you the truth it depends on the decade

because if you think about

1st there was twiggy who changed everything in fashion..specially the runways..she was so much different looking models she was so skinny

then there came christy brinkley..and that was for the curvy vuluptuous tall models..that are breath-taking

christy brinkley was the set for teh 80's and 90's supermodels..like christy, linda, cindy and naomi...they had boobs, they had butt...they were it...no more celebrities..they ruled the world and took over

and tyra banks came right in the end and stormed through the industry and one of the greatest supermodels getting compared to high rollers like naomi cuz there couldn't be two black models

then with tyra gisele joined, kate moss started the heroine chic girls...everyone blames her for being paper thin and having cocaine and heroine..i mean even with 80's & 90's models were drunk and high at studio 54 and they took the drugs to help them forget the stress and worries the industry put on them and to have enough energy to go running from one show to another going to vogue photoshoots and doing haarpars bazaar..but kate moss was just blamed for everything but till today shes coming back and doing great things

so theres no explanation for only being 10 supermodels

the modeling industry is fluctuating[spelt wrong] so its like a domino effect..each supermodel was teh starter for the next

yepp, thats how i see it.

That's a great list, happycanadian! Thanks for your time and effort.

no problem! i love talking (or i guess writing in this example) about this type of thing!

and i agree beautymaster that Cindy was much more commercial (and only commercial) than The Trinity, or Kate or Gisele....maybe those are the real top 5. . . . but i think that Cindy really set the bar for SUPERmodel though. i mean, maybe she doesn't have the high fashion resume of some other models, but her name is recognized WORLDWIDE, much more than most of the other models.

i'm teaching english in Korea right now, and all of my students know who Cindy Crawford is... most of them vaguely knew Naomi Campbell, but only as "that black model". most of them know Gisele, but that's about it. They don't know Tyra as more than the t.v. host of America's Next Top Model. But Kate, Christy, Linda ... nope.

oh really?

i know a bunch of people over in korea, they barely even know who britney spears is. So i wouldn't bother asking them if they knew supermodels.

no problem it was from askmen

no problem! i love talking (or i guess writing in this example) about this type of thing!

So..?

i'm sorry but... Tyra ? one of the greatest supermodel ever ?? just because she's been the first black model to get 2 covers of vogue and i can't remember which other mag and had contracts with VS and SI ?? Swimsuit models aren't what i call BIG models lol... I didn't know her before i started to be interested in the VS fashion shows... Have she ever done major brands campaigns ?