Catwalk documentary (1995)

Christy does act like an a teenage girl in this. Especially when she keeps repeating the same thing in German,, and the woman says "You only know that one sentence?"

Helena Christensen also seems like an asshole when she goes on about Sharon Stone being so old, when she was only 36.

There was an article in one of the New York newspapers that also regarded the Lifetime movie "Christy Backstage" as superior.

I had read that Christy Turlington wasn't happy with the Lifetime movie, and there was even an opening night premiere for it. She had wanted a big Truth or Dare type release, and Catwalk was even produced by the same filmmaker.

Glamourama is a much better picture of that era.

Of course Christy and Helena were portrayed in a 'flattering light' in this documentary': they were boning Mr. U2 and Mrs. U2 at the time, respectively.

At one time the interweb had contained a plethora of articles about this party; unfortunately, it has since been wiped clean.

Christy and Helena were both Hispanic and were very tight lipped about it. They didn't look all that white and weren't fooling anyone. Christy also boned a girl Trump did! God what a strumpet..

A young Christy once hoovered ALL MY BLOW at Undochine (under Indochine). My boyfriend thought it was glamorous to share my coke. Then he died.

Helena is Danish

Helena is Danish and something latin.

Helena has a Danish father and a Peruvian mother

Indigenous Peruvian or Immigrant descendent.

Christy has an Irish father and her mother is from El Salvador

R12 her mom was born in Lima and immigrated to Denmark at age 18... not sure the mix of backgrounds her moms Peruvian family has. Could be some European mixed with indigenous Peruvian.

Christy's looks were at their peak at this time. Her face looks amazing, with no botox or filler or surgery.

Didn't Christy have a radical nose in her teens?

Love, Love, LOVE Carla Bruni.... watch her at the 33 second mark and again about 1:26.

Carla was a very chic girl.

Was her mother the Peruvian girl Joan Fontaine bought....er I mean Adopted?

There's got to be more to the story as far as the two versions. In "Christy Turlington: Backstage," Christy came across cool, sophisticated and sympathetic.

In "Catwalk," using a lot of the same footage, Christy is vacuous, annoying and shrill.

Jaye Davidson hovering over the food makes me want to stand up straight. I wasn't sure how he fit into that scene.

I've only seen 'Catwalk' never saw the Lifetime version, nor did I know it existed. I agree Christy came off like a dope in it, but then, I didn't really expect her not to. With that said, nobody was more disappointing than Linda E in Unzipped, so shrill and whiny and doing hack AbFab bits which could be seen at any gay bar in the regions.

I was really annoyed by Linda in Unzipped when the movie first came out. Watching it again recently, she’s kind of funny, camping it up on purpose. She seems like a terror but made me laugh.

R17 The DL Grammar Nazis would have a field day with her. She seems bright for a model. However she is quite a homewrecker. She dated Jean Paul Enthoven and then left him for his son, Raphael, who was married and had a kid. She also cheated with Mick Jagger when he was 'married' to Jerry Hall. A hussy if there ever was one.

Linda's 8th grade teacher / Anna Wintour bob in Unzipped is the least flattering hairstyle she has had.

R24=Dionne Warwick

R20 there's really no "story"... CHRISTY TURLINGTON: BACKSTAGE was simply an edited for TV 1-hour version of the feature length film CATWALK. This was at the height of the supermodel era and Lifetime probably envisioned some great ratings with the core female and gay viewing audience, the producers got some extra $$$, and everybody got wider TV exposure since the film certainly wasn't going to be playing in Peoria (it had a very limited release in just a few major markets).

Probably at least 70% of the 1-hour runtime of the TV version is fashion show runway footage and they even added Christy doing some voiceovers about each designer and what they are known for, their style, etc. that was not in the feature length release. The TV version was really more about a glimpse of the models and a chance for women to enjoy looking at the clothes, make up, atmosphere at each show, etc.

You weren't ever going to get much insight into the models themselves in BACKSTAGE since the TV version had such a small portion of the model interaction you saw in CATWALK.

Having said that, Christy doesn't come across all that badly in the film aside from not being all that interesting... but come on, she was in her early 20's, had not yet been to college, and basically had been in the supermodel bubble since her late teens. So she wasn't nearly as sophisticated as she "looked". But she wasn't a bitch and time has certainly proved she was much more grounded than Naomi.

In later interviews Christy has said she doesn't really like the film and admits she hadn't developed enough as a well rounded adult to be worthy of that much interest, it was a shallow look at her career, etc.

She went back to NYU undergrad and Columbia grad school, has gone on to some pretty worthwhile humanitarian work, and made the TIME 100 list. She may not be Ruth Bader Ginsberg, but she seems to be a socially conscious adult and has tried to use her fame to make the world a better place.

R24 well English is Carla's third language after Italian and French... so I think we can give her a pass on the grammar LOL

I thought that Christy Turlington: Backstage had more of a progression from the beginning of fashion week till the end. Catwalk seem to have a lot of different scenes inserted without regards to chronological events.

Probably CT Backstage is easier to follow chronologically because its just so much quicker at 1 hour (even less when you figure for commercials) and goes pretty much straight from one fashion show to the next.

Catwalk has so many scenes and vignettes in addition to the fashion shows that it may seem random, but its also totally chronological and the scenes all flow Milan - Paris - New York in the actual chrono order.

The music in "Backstage" is 100% better.

R7 WRONG they weren't tight lipped about it all... every interview at the time played up the Christy's mom was a Pan Am stewardess originally from Central America and her dad was a pilot, that's how they met.

Also, one reason advertisers loved Christy's looks was that she could appeal to many different ethnic groups and demographics without looking totally like them (i.e. not a blond Barbie doll, but also not a true Latina). She was exotic, but not in a way that was limiting at all.

Yeah, I agree with R31... some of the score Malcom McLaren put together for Catwalk was great, but much of it was corny and pretentious. The music in CT Backstage was better.

First time I had heard Bjork was with this song playing as Christy, Kate, and Naomi arrive at Milan Malpensa and then drive into the city in some of the footage used for CT Backstage. It felt like a revelation... ahhhhh the 90's.

Why did they all hate Tyra Banks?

R34 because they're mean girls. I remember Tyra saying Naomi especially was not nice to her.

Tyra was 2nd tier and not as pretty, either.

As much as I loved 90s supermodels, I've always thought Naomi Campbell was annoying and overrated. Obviously pretty, but not an interesting or compelling personality.

I watched it and mostly what I got out of it was just how gorgeous these women were. Jesus!

Remember when models were beautiful?

I just came here to say how I was never the biggest fan of Naomi, but watching this video made me appreciate her beauty and perfection so much more.

The models back then were all absolutely gorgeous and perfect unlike the malnourished children walking the runways nowadays.

"Christy Turlington: Backstage" premiere - with clips featuring the different music used.

R40. Gabriel Byrne: ' I was looking at the movie and was thinking this isn't something that's unique."

Fashion File segment on "Christy: Backstage"

R37 - did you ever see Naomi on the catwalk. Electric.

i mean live. not in video or photos.....

i miss the 90s

R45 #metoo

R32, R7 is merely adding insight into R6's comment. Go back and re-read R6's comment, relating R7's commentary to it. (The part about the 'Boning.')

Make sense, now?

All of the commercial breaks during Backstage were of Christy's Maybelline ads. It was 60 unyielding minutes of Christy Turlington.

The director of Unzipped wanted all of the girls to play up their bitchy/catty side, and Linda E was the only one who got it right.

Tyra from the start was always a motor-mouth and a bit too straight-laced and cerebral for the edgy/sexy/party girl models of the 90s. Even she has said something along the lines of "When all the other girls were going out clubbing in Paris, I was eating at McDonalds."

Since 2000, about 90% of women on magazine covers are actresses.

I had completely forgotten about Bridget Hall until that scene at the end when all the models fall down during the photo session. She was definitely hyped as the next big thing.

Why didn't Helena ever get her own US Vogue cover? She was part of a group shot taken by Herb Ritts Christmas 1993 but I could never understand why she got all the other covers on her own regularly bar US Vogue...did Wintour have a dislike for her?

Editors definitely had their favorites, I feel like Turlington was constantly on the cover of Bazaar in the '90s, less so U.S. Vogue. I'm sure it had a lot to do with favorites of photographers as well. Wasn't Meisel Wintour's go-to photog for a lot of the '90s? He favored Evangelista, particularly after the break-up of 'The Trinity'.

odd which ones became the darlings of the editors.....

hmmmm

I thought that Kate Moss, Amber Valletta and Carolyn Murphy had plain looking faces in the 90s, and not that interesting. But 25 years later, all three of them have shown how versatile they are, and can pull off sophisticated upper class, everyday All American and retro period looks easily.

Funny how Niki Taylor laughs at everything John Galliano tells her to do, then he says, "I'm serious!"

You know what he should have said to her, R56?

I was always surprised that Niki Taylor was one of the six models mentioned in RuPaul's "Supermodel."

Niki got HUGE when RuPaul blew up himself. She was a supermodel. Where's the surprise?

Perhaps she wasn't as commercially successful as "The Holy Trinity" (Naomi, Linda, Christy) was, as far as I'm concerned Karen Mulder was just as Hawt.

I can think of at least 30 supermodels from 1990-2000. Surely even more than that who can be called "supermodels." I worked on the technical side of the shows 1991-1995. I'm a guy and was a model myself in the mid 80's and 1 year agin in the 90s.

Stephanie Seymour would drop in every now and then and show off her hot body

Helena Christensen and Stephanie Seymour had two of the hottest bodies of all the 90s models.

By the look in Steph's eyes and her body language @ R62, it's apparent she was with Axl at the time.

Milla Jovovich usually isn't mentioned with all the other supermodels, but she has definitely kicked ass in the film world. And she has had cosmetic and perfume contracts for years.

This was one of those 90s independent movies that made excellent use of their budget, like Clockwatchers and The Daytrippers.

R66 wrong thread

Not to derail the thread, but I did not miss Linda E in the doc. She is definitely beautiful, but frankly, I found her hard to look at. She has such strong strong look. Too intense for me with that super long nose.

Linda said that she was inspired to pursue modeling after seeing Joan Severance

I started reading Vogue and other fashion magazines in 1990 when a goth girlfriend introduced them to me. I was a serious boy studying painting and before that I'd always viewed fashion as something a bit silly but it didn't take long for me to recognize just how gorgeous fashion photography was. It was obviously the era of the supermodels and everything was so just so awesome, especially for an artsy teen boy. The girls were so beautiful. Evangelista and Tatjana Patitz were my favorites, especially when photographed by Peter Lindbergh.

That was a long time ago and it all seemed once again so silly when I tried to watch Catwalk. I was reminded once again that what made me like fashion and the models was really the photography. I've never really been into clothes and I can't say any of the models were that interesting as persons, they were just basically the Kardashians of the time. It's actually scary how much attention fashion shows and models were getting, and still are. I mean is there anything more silly than watching frantic backstage action at a fashion show like it's something hugely important? I've watched enough top model shows and Project Runways to realize how idiotic it all is. And yes yes, I understand some people love the whole thing, and I did to a point earlier as well but I guess now that I'm way over 40 I realize how dumb it is to idolize models like they are deities. No wonder the industry got rid of the cult of the supermodel. However I do still fondly remember the art surrounding the whole thing.

[quote]I'm way over 40 I realize how dumb it is to idolize models like they are deities.

I like your post and I agree with you, but they were all so freakishly beautiful I get how it happens. Beauty like that inspires awe or at the very least, great amounts of staring.

R70 I wonder why Christy Turlington isn't in that pic. One of the only times I've seen Helena Christensen and Stephanie Seymour together. Definitely two models with the hottest bodies.

R71, you are certainly not wrong. There's no denying those girls were gorgeous.

If you were to gather the top 8 models of 2018, they would all have inflated pornstar lips, filler and botox, huge fake boobs and tattoos.

R72, no idea why Turlington wasn't booked for the Wild at Heart shoot. I guess they had enough supermodel power already or she was booked elsewhere. Jesus, those images are just so gorgeous. Especially the slightly blurred one of Evangelista.

I think she was under contract with Calvin Klein r72 and was limited in what she could participate in.

R75 those are some EPIC and iconic photos of Linda Evangelista and Helena Christensen. Only thing missing is Christy T.

Christy should have been there instead of Karen Mulder

Niki Taylor would also look very hot in all of that black leather

Paulina Poriskova was, to me, the most beautiful of the supermodels, and she had an incredible body.

Karen Mulder reminds me of Joey Lauren Adams and Jill Goodacre.

Huge fan of Jovovich.

Loved Paulina!!! The best, Karen M gorgeous, of course Naomi. Helena for unconventional, surprising beauty. But Christy and Linda’s noses , I hated.

I get people not liking Linda Evangelista's flared nostrils, but Christy Turlington's nose is like sculpture.

Linda was a work of art herself.

christy had a nose job right?

Paulina was perfection to look at, but how was her runway walk? I can’t remember ever seeing her on the catwalk.

Always screamed nose job to me. distracting!

Unfortunately, sculptured by hand of surgeon. No one mentioned Kristen Mcnemy or whatever her name was

I saw her first season R89 she was very interesting and everyone was looking at her.

R88. None of those photos indicate that Christy had a nose job

Really? You can see where they placed a tip on her nose...original had a slight dimple at end

She's been modeling since she was 16 and her nose has been the same since.

And lips!

That looks like the top lip implant they did before juviderm, like Julia Roberts.

You can see that she colored over her lip with lip liner

Yasmeen Ghauri was the prettiest and had the best walk!!

Years ago, Cleo magazine printed photos of cindy and christy when they were about 14. They've both had drastic nosejobs.

Bullshit. Christy looks just like her mom, nose and all. I used to think Cindy had a nose job till I saw her pictured with her sisters. They all have the same nose.

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The photo of young christy makes it hard to actually judge the size and shape of her nose so proves nothing. The one you linked of cindy convinces me she had a nosejob.

Back when women were hot

Models today are so fucking boring

Niki Taylor only makes a cameo