Christie Brinkley

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In the 80s I would see her at parties with heavy hitting icons all around yet Christie was notably high wattage and dazzling. She found the right occupation, that's for sure.

I like Brinkley but I think the first supermodel was Lauren Hutton.

The 60's icons were supermodels in my opinion. So not Lauren Hutton as first.

Since she was in National Lampoon's Vacation and videos on MTV, she's the first model I remember that everybody knew her name, not just those reading fashion magazines.

Everyone knew Twiggy.

Gold lamé. How does a male find this sexy? Explain yourself....

Iknow she is supposed to be the embodiment of american beauty, the paradigm, but her square face turns me off. Pretty girl and all, but hardly a great beauty.

Dull as dish water. Zero charm or charisma.

Her surgeon is an artist that should be made king of somewhere.

Until Twiggy, few models were known by name or were hired for their personal celebrity, rather than whatever dubious "modeling skills" they might possess. So, I'd go with her as the first supermodel.

How many music videos was she in? I only know of one: Uptown Girl

Nah, there were Lauren Hutton and Margaux Hemingway before her. And Tiegs.

This lovely would never be caught dead in a 'music video.'

She had an amazingly long career at the top (for the time). And I have to say - she looks amazing today. Her bone structure supports plastic surgery well.

I can't think of anyone else who has ever looked this good in their 60's - natural or not.

Lauren Hutton is nowhere near as striking and versatile as Christie Brinkley.

She must have very good genetics and overall health to be able to look so good without looking overdone.

Best plastic surgery ever.

She was in Billy Joel's videos for Uptown Girl, Keeping the Faith, A Matter of Trust

When she was younger, in person, she was a cross between and electrified glowing barbie, and a disney cartoon princess. Startling.

*an.

She's the first model I remember boys talking about at school, and people would get excited just to see commercials with her in them.

She really does look fantastic.

This snapshot could be a painting

Say what you will, but DAYUM, she is into her 60's and looks like a GREAT late 30's! Quite stunning how great she looks. I've shown guys my age (33) and younger her current pics and they are all jaw dropped at her being in her 60's.

Luv huh, but my favorite of the original supermodels was Karen Graham, the '70s face of Estée Lauder.

Supermodels transcended the fashion world and became as famous as movie stars.

Men were never that interested in Lauren Hutton or Twiggy.

Wow.

Christie's nose in R24 and R25 is completely different. Her surgeon is a wizard.

Adorbz

GLAMMA of which even Miss Ann Miller would approve

R17, Lauren Hutton may not have been as striking or beautiful but Christie Brinkley was never versatile. She was never a fashion model. She never did runway, never appeared on the fashion bible American Vogue and as Linda Evangelista once said "you can't put Christie Brinkley in Chanel." Christie has one look albeit a very beautiful one but that's it.

[quote]R2 I would see her at parties with heavy hitting icons all around yet Christie was notably high wattage and dazzling.

My friend was in a ladies room with her in the mid 90s and said she never felt so average in her life.

Loved when she went crazy with her hair

Sports Illustrated fish

She is the biggest attention seeking person alive. I remember seeing her in the Hamptons in the 1990's and early 2000's with her family. She barely paid attention to her kids if there was anyone else around. She was always flashing a giant rictus grin and ignoring her kids in order to soak up any attention from a stranger. I remember seeing some pictures of her at a Harry Potter movie premiere. Her kids were little and they just wanted to go inside and see the movie. But Christie wouldn't have it. Oh no! Not her. She kept walking away from the family and talking to the people standing outside the theater. Her kids were actually pulling on her arm to drag her crazily grinning self away from the strangers. She actually kept pulling back from her son to soak up more attention

Click the link and see the pics of her attention seeking. It tells a lot why all her marriages have failed

Dropped the hair dryer in the bathtub hairy

Lauren Hutton and Karen Graham were both more beautiful than Brinkley, just different types. Brinkley wasn't going to do Vogue and they weren't going to do Sports Illustrated.

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R37 Who the fuck cares. We are talking about a woman who looks out of this world well into her 60's.

Christie could easily have done runway, as much as Cindy Crawford, or any other swimsuit model. She made much more money doing editorial and Covergirl campaigns.

Attack of the killer hair

I also saw her at some event in the Hamptons. She had her whole family with her. She, as usual was ignoring them. They all were facing one way and Christie had her back turned to them and was facing another way with a giant grin on her face while some stranger took her picture. I felt so bad for her kids. She did it the entire afternoon.

Someone here once posted something about knowing her or knowing someone who knew her and they wrote, "the thing with Christie is when she's on, she's on and she's always on. Meaning, she's always seeking attention and putting on her phony "I'm so great and happy" persona

She has that shit eating grin on her face in every picture I see of her. Even to this day. This cow has never met a camera she didn't love

Working a wacky perm

Sunburnt

Here she is being dragged away by her child - and refusing to be dragged away. She's actually bracing her knee to stay there and fight being dragged away

R46 no shit eating grin here

I don't think she wa a great model or anything beyond completely vanilla (even Cheryl Tiegs had more edge)....but just as a human being, she's very, very pretty in a prom queen kind of way.

R49 you're as high as Cheryl Tiegs on coke if you think she had more edge than Christie Brinkley

[quote]Until Twiggy, few models were known by name or were hired for their personal celebrity, rather than whatever dubious "modeling skills" they might possess.

Bitch, please!

Here's one. She must be so exhausting to be with.

Gia, on the July 1979 Cosmo cover -

Cosmo cover lines crack me up.

r7 when her tits are hanging out, that's how

I'm going to get pilloried for this, but I have never found her particularly attractive, though I suppose I am not her target audience. It's confusing to me because her features are all "technically " right,theres just something.. missing. I can recognize and appreciate female beauty I just don't find her beautiful. There is something about her that I find deeply off putting.

r27 I love her nose

I found her dull as dishwater when she was young with her tiny eyes and square face, but she looks fantastic these days. Maybe she got her eyes did.

R37 Interesting. I have always found her off putting. I remember her TV tour during the divorce from that architect and I got the impression that they were both repulsive, though of course the white knight media portrayed her as a victim.

You got to respect her for not getting giant D cup implants, like most models these days.

In her memoir, "No Lifeguard on Duty," Janice talked shit about Christie's 'wide, flat ass,' which is why she was often photographed stretching her body out rather than positioned in more natural poses.

R42, sorry but not true. Designers were never clambering to get Christie in fashion shows. Cindy Crawford was far more versatile. That's why she could do beauty, fashion, commercial etc.

R44 that grin has always creeped me out, it is so cult like, there's no warmth are genuiness underneath it. Some time ago I read a comment on the DL from someone who knew her. It said something along the lines of her being completely soulless.

Considering her Dad produced Trapper John, M.D., Rawhide, and The Man from U.N.C.L.E and her Malibu upbringing, I can't figure out how she was born in Michigan.

I never got the Tiegs appeal. Obviously attractive, but no way was she worthy of the "supermodel" title. She looks like white trash. Like she'd be in some cheap calendar hanging at a trucker stop.

R62. As if you would know what designers were clamoring for in the 70s and 80s

Why did Christie never do runway or appear on Vogue? Too fat, too short, too girl-next-door pretty, or not pretty enough? Anyone know why?

Jacqueline smith looks great then and now..better than Christie

Christie Paris Vogue cover

Italian Vogue

British Vogue

[quote] There is something about her that I find deeply off putting.

It's that fake grin she ALWAYS has plastered on her face. I just want to know how she doesn't have wrinkles around her mouth and nose from DEEP grinning 20 hours a day. She has smiled more this year than most of us ever will in 50 years

American Vogue editrices likely didn't want American electrified Barbie on the cover. Its like Germans who considered Claudia a bland cow.

[quote]R65 I never got the Tiegs appeal. Obviously attractive, but no way was she worthy of the "supermodel" title.

Cheryl Tiegs was versatile, in that she could do fashion, commercials, swimsuits...basically everything. She was hardworking and began when she was 16 or something. She wasn't legendary, but she had endurance.

Christie has a huge face and tiny features. But somehow it works. Usually, huge faces and tiny features produce monsters like Rumer Willis.

Cybill Shepherd in the late 1960s was one of the original supermodels.

R74, but she looks very Sears catalogue, not Vogue.

Cybill was blonde perdection. What abeauty. The 4 perfect american blondes are Cybill, Grace Kelly, Sharon Stone and Farrah.

R44 she reminds me of Kris Jenner . Although Kris Jenner appears to pay more attention to her children. Lol.

Cybill Shepherd - Supermodel

Five covers of Glamour in the span of just over a year, Mar 1970-Oct 1971.

Cheryl Tiegs is only well-known because she showed her nipples on the cover of Sports Illustrated, Even in that photo, she looks like a one-dimensional, boring soccer mom.

R65 I find Tiegs more attractive than Brinkley. Different strokes I suppose.

SCHYBILL SCHEPHERD

Cybill Shepherd was amazing. So beautiful she just had to stand there.

R61 I can't imagine why a gargoyle like Janice Dickinson would be criticizing Christie's body

R66, I know bc she never did fashion shows you idiot. She said herself on Phil Donahue that she didn't do fashion shows bc you had to be super super skinny. How many fashion editorials did she appear in? Not only did she not appear on American Vogue covers, I don't recall ever seeing her in their editorials. Im not sure why you are trying to argue she was versatile and a fashion model when there's no evidence to support that claim. No one is arguing that she was beautiful but versatile she was not. Are you that dim?

R87. Unhinged

R88, guess I proved my point. Don't talk about things you know nothing about.

A multi-year contract with Cover Girl is like winning the model Oscar.

I think brunettes usually have more personality than blondes.

Jennifer O'Neill was gorgeous.

R87 R89 INSUFFERABLE

Veronica Hamel had a great modeling career before turning to acting.

Brunettes are just a little more soulful, as a rule. Blondes are a dime a dozen.

And no one was more photogenic than the young Brooke Shields

Anne Saint Marie, who inspired [italic]Puzzle of a Downfall Child.[/italic]

When you compare Christie Brinkley to these girls, she's just lifeless.

The first first supermodel was Jean Shrimpton.

R95 You're right , I can't see Brinkley pulling off a graceful pose like that or anything with subtlety. All Brinkley seems capable of is the frozen Joker grin.

[quote]R96 The first first supermodel was Jean Shrimpton.

Suzy Parker might have beat her to it, but barring her, Shrimpton was well known to the general public in a way others weren't, before.

Kecia Neiman (who was Swedish or something) was also amazing looking.

Like Shrimpton, she had a very "fairy tale princess-y" face.

Kecia Neiman

ahem...

Paulina Porizkova was the second supermodel

Brinkley could do [italic]The Vanna White Story.

R101 Carmen was a workhorse, but she'd occassionally take time off, and she didn't become known by name to the general public until she was much older. That's what made her famous; that she had white hair AND looked great.

r104 Yeah I guess you'e right, looking at her old pics she wasn't anything really special, the bitch got better with age! So unfair.

Even in her 60s, she could command any heterosexual penis on the planet and get it.

I wonder if Carmen Dell'Orefice was the inspiration for Meryl's look in THE DEVIL WEARSS PRADA.

Cheryl Tiegs has no fucking lips. I agree she did look like white trash.

Paulina p looks amazing now in her fifties

Cover Girl Cybill

Carmen Della Reese looks like RuPaul. She's for ancient gays to swoon over? No real man would find her beautiful.

[quote]r108 Cheryl Tiegs has no fucking lips. I agree she did look like white trash.

Cheryl is bored with the lot of you.

R112 Shelley Hack?

[quote]r111 Carmen Della Reese looks like RuPaul. She's for ancient gays to swoon over? No real man would find her beautiful.

She married three times, so I guess some men liked her in real life.

Brinkley is a Trumper

Damn Cybill Shepherd was something. There's something going on behind her gaze. She communicates. That's rare with blue-eyed blonde models. I knew she was considered all american pretty, but wow, she was really beautiful.

Carmen Dell'Orefice when young

So she is a tranny.

R115 how do you know that?

Carmen looks like she couldn't win Drag Race. Fail.

[quote]r118 So she is a tranny.

Well....she does have children....but.....

Cindy Crawford said on House of Style that Christie Brinkley was the first supermodel. Cindy was also not known for doing a lot of runway, and was booked based on her fame.

Kim Alexis reminded me of Christie Brinkley, she was another 80's beauty

[quote] r116 Damn Cybill Shepherd was something. There's something going on behind her gaze. She communicates. That's rare with blue-eyed blonde models. I knew she was considered all american pretty, but wow, she was really beautiful.

I agree.

I remember staring at this cover of Kim Alexis because her face is so beautiful.

Carmen was exquisite.

GIA was the first supermodel

Christie was very fetching and certainly was iconic. I think that she was one of the first "cross-over stars". Her acting ability was dim at best, but she did light up the screen when she attempted. Gia Carangi however was drop-dead gorgeous. Gia was one of the very few supermodels who had large tits and yet was very much still in demand. She also had the most beautiful hair of any model - EVER.

[quote]r126 Carmen was exquisite.

She is for the sophisticated palate.

Christis Brinkley and her kids. Alexa looks out of place here....

R115 Yes, I have heard multiple times that Brinkley is a Trump supporter

r128 Gia was a foul mouthed junkie whore.

But she photographed well.

Gia did have a depth to her gaze

Gia

Gia

Fucked up on heroin...

Heroin gives everyone a dark cast to their eyes. Gia is a bit overrated. Cindy Crawford was all that and more for a lush brunette full lipped athletic beauty. She was literally flawless. And a bit lifeless. Gia looked like a tough Italian dyke.

Gia without all the Scavullo drag. Tough chick.

Gia was a good model in that in addition to her face and figure, she could really POSE. She was natural yet theatrical at the same time. She created emotional patterns with her body. I think Cindy C was more inert.

Cindy C was much more beautiful than Gia. Carangi's story is heartbreaking and iconic, but she looked 20 years older than her age and she was decidedly masculine. Scavullo had a hard on for her, that's the only reason she became briefly famous. Cindy Crawford is one of the most famous models of all time and she will remain that way for all time. Gia is a footnote.

Mmmmm....Cindy Crawford was pretty and sexy. She's kind of a "Cindy Doll," though. Not much depth to her work.

No one's ever going to say she wasn't stunning.

But if you compare this pic of Gia, tho, there's just more inherently going on.

No one knows who Janice Dickinson is until she tells them, and Gia is known for how she died..

R142 maybe but Crawford was so much prettier.

Lauren Hutton was the first supermodel mostly because she broke a major pay barrier--first really big contract that got a lot of coverage. There were famous models, like Twiggy and Suzy Parker, before her, but they didn't make nearly the amount of money.

Suddenly, modeling became a way to make a lot of money if you were one of the lucky few. Not so much now.

I think of Lauren Hutton as being a new breed of model for her time, too, because she was one of the first who wasn't afraid to go nude...to really work with her entire body, if she felt like it.

I always thought Brinkley was perfect...ly boring looking. I grew up seeing her on TV commercials and thinking she was so pretty and so unremarkable. I thought Cathy Ireland was a more interesting looking version of the same type.

R148 Brinkley features are unremarkable and she has an unsettling Stepford wife grin on her face 24 7 ,like she's a host for Fox News or something.

Right, R149. She seems nice. She is pretty. Her inoffensiveness is a little offensive to me. I was raised by a woman with a lot of grit who loves to argue, and Brinkley looks like if you tried to argue with her, she would break down crying and then excuse herself to fix her makeup. Bah.

One thing I can say for her appearance is that it’s remarkable that the young “California blonde” white girl was so deeply tanned in her youth—long before spray tans—and she doesn’t look like a leather sofa today.

R150 I love and respect strong women but they don't seem as appreciated by our culture anymore.

2018, hanging with a porn star’s lawyer. Given the common wisdom that sun exposure destroys the skin, how did this lady keep her skin so well preserved at 64? Is she part Italian or black?

Kelly Emberg seemed like a slightly more interesting version of Christie Brinkley.

My ideal supermodel would fall a reasonable somewhere between bland-as-fuck Christie Brinkley and skeletal-as-fuck “interesting” Coco Rocha. I know the Hadid girls are hated here, but both make more sense to me as renowned models than either Brinkley or Rocha because they are attractive, but they don’t look like they were made on an assembly line—or like they were made from spare parts.

Bella and Gigi WERE made from spare parts.

Rene Russo

R155 I have always thought the Hadid girls were attractive in a distinct way, even though they seem to be disliked

R158 I’m just using them as examples of people who are much more interesting looking than Brinkley, whether you’re looking at before-surgery or after-surgery photos of them. Brinkley’s face just looks like it was made by CGI as “generic blonde.”

Brinkley definitely looked better when she was slutting it up a bit. It leant her more personality.

R159 I agree with you about her being almost textbook generic. I have always been a little baffled by her iconic status. She is not unique or special in any way, she looks like she should be Co hosting Fox and Friends.

In R160 she looks like Slutty Sandy from Grease. Slutty Sandy was never a convincing tart. She didn’t even know how to stomp out a cigarette without instructions!

Go AWAY!

Janice Dickinson was so beautiful back in the day. Looks-wise, she had a Phoebe Cates exoticism mixed with girl-next-door sweetness. Personality-wise, ugh. But still, she had a more interesting look than Christie. Christie was mainstream America's ideal back in the '80s: blonde and bland.

First of all, I grew up in the era of the supermodels, and couldn't tell a picture of Gia if you bitchslapped me with it. Secondly, I've hated Brinkley ever since she stated that she had no idea who Billy Joel was when she started dating him. It was impossible growing up in the 70's to not know who Billy Joel was. Then there's the fact that she dumped one of her husbands because she was to poor for her.

Her daughters are gorgeous (yes, even Alexa). Sailor is a mini Christie.

R163 not to mention how does she have such a square face that didn’t become super jowly even in her 40s (a face that square usually does). So many rules of aging she hat defies.

I will say though that in person her surgery is significantly more obvious than in pictures. But heck, she’s over 60 and still looks great.

And good for her for never feeling she had to be skinny (yet she wasn’t a “big girl” like Shepherd).

Does Cheryl Tiegs' pussy stink?

So many jealous queens

She grins because smiling usually makes you look 10 years younger.

I always thought that Dovima was the first supermodel:

Or Veruschka:

Jean Shrimpton, at her peak, was gorgeous. Bland Brinkley creeps me out with her plastered smile. She seems to be very needy.

Twiggy was the first Supermodel, no question. The fashion look was NEW, HER look was individual, and her name/image was licensed ALL over the place. Dolls, lunch boxes, hosiery......

Folklore is that Cindy Crawford owes her career to Gia. Gia's departure from the business do to drug abuse and later AIDS left a void for a dark haired/olive skinned beauty. Gia paved the way and Cindy just hitched a ride. Both were undeniably beautiful although Gia had much better breasts (again, a successful fashion model with large breasts was also unheard of). Gia's name today would have been much bigger had the drug use not ruined her career so quickly.

And wasn't Janice Dickenson the baby Cindy?

brinkley always looked like a big girl working at the mall to me. Absolutely zero appeal.

Christie was a one dimensional beauty...better as a swimsuit model that a fashion model. She was blonde and white and looked the way most white American men thought that the ideal woman should look like. So naturally white women wanted to look like her. Lucky for her she photographed well.

No Suzy Parker she.

Beauty but supposedly a beast in real life. Her daughter Alexa is troubled (suicide attempt, plastic surgeries at young age) and I read here on Datalounge several years ago that she ran through assistants like Kleenex as she was an abusive bully to her staff.

Christie had that all-American sporty girl thing going--the Swimsuit editor of Sports Illustrated said Christie had the best hips in the business, which is useful when it comes to swimwear but she also looked good modeling sportswear--casual, relaxed clothing that was the foundation of the American clothing industry. Add that to good hair and a photogenic face and she fit a lucrative niche--not exotic, not interesting, but a big deal in the 70s/80s.

I feel a little for Alexa Joel--she has an interesting look, but she's not a traditional beauty--and when Christie's your mother and your sibs follow suit as golden girls and boys, it's got to be a bit tough, particularly since there seems to be so much focus on Christie and her looks.

She was really the first famous model who also appealed in a major way to heterosexual men, which is a big deal but no doubt why she gets a lukewarm response on here.

r181 Agreed, I was one of the people who liked Linda E. and Helena, and think the exotic look is more interesting. Poor Alexa doesn't see it yet but she's miles better looking than Christie or her blonde sister.

Brinkley got to fuck Billy Joel at his hunkiest.

Not a patch on Karen Graham or Evelyn Kuhn

The son's a total hottie.

The daughters of Christie Brinkley and Cindy Crawford aren't nearly as interesting looking as their mothers.

From "Model: The Ugly Business of Beautiful Women" by Michael Gross, he makes the claim that Suzy Parker was really the first model that the public recognized and knew her by name.

R181 I have always found Alexa lovely her eyes are beautiful ,she's got a great figure, and is a good musician. I think some of her problems are due to being in the public eye at a young age in a society, that even post Kardashian, is still enthralled with "wasp" beauty as the ultimate in attractiveness . Many Americans seem to equate bland even features as beautiful. Another factor is her pathological narcissistic mother. Brinkley is an extremely selfish woman. I remember during the 3rd divorce from the architect a really disgusting story came out. Basically Alexa was in the shower and the architect guy pulled her out screaming in a rage because she left the dishes piled up. Brinkley wasn't too disturbed by this until he cheated on her, then it was time for a divorce. I have no parental instincts ( I'm pretty much the get off my lawn type )but even I was taken aback by Brinkleys lack of concern for her children. I have a feeling that Alexas problems are due to her upbringing and that we have only heard about half of the story.

Paulina has always been my favorite.

You should post a pic of her R190. Paulina is one of the most enigmatic and beautiful models ever. A sour personality and bit stuck on herself in real life, but a gorgeous muse in photographs.

Don't forget about me!

R175, Cindy Crawford basically arose from Gia's ashes. Her agent took her to all the photographers that loved Gia's look--Scavullo, Albert Watson, Bill King--and they happily photographed Cindy, who became known in the business as "Baby Gia."

Janice Dickinson was Gia's contemporary. They frequently were booked together for fashion shoots.

Karen Mulder was another favorite of mine. Her unraveling due to mental illness was so sad.

Paulina was stunning--not all that interested in taking a great picture or being versatile, but incredibly beautiful. Wonky teeth most of her career, so she worked a close-mouthed Mona Lisa smile.

Paulina certainly was a beauty, but she had a sharp tongue, which she used to criticize her profession and Hollywood when she tried for a career in movies (Her Alibi, Anna). I remember a People magazine article where she claimed she hated modeling because it was fake and superficial and proudly proclaimed that she spoke six languages and read Dostoevesky and Dickens for pleasure. She came across as a pretentious twit and lost a lucrative Estée Lauder contract because of the negative reactions she received.

She's insane and traumatized Prince Albert in NYC

Cindy Crawford rose from Paulina's ashes and big mouth.

She'll never be this exotic canadian beauty

Harlowe

Not Shalom but who is?

Still Team Leslie Hornby!

Gia's 'connections' may have secured 'the interview' for Cindy; but it was Cindy who 'landed the job' and turned it into one of the most successful careers in the modeling industry.

Love both ladies -

R198. Cindy Crawford and Paulina couldn't be more different. Paulina is one of the ultimate "beauty" models, kind of a static thing, but her photos are hall of fame. Cindy was a lush sexy moving strutting seismographic boom - with warm brown eyes. The most accessible AND gorgeous woman alive in her time. She was Avedon's idea come to life because she was everywhere doing everything. High fashion runways, Endless magazine covers, Pepsi commercials, Playboy, Talk shows and a Bad movie or two. Dumb as a rock but healthy and confident. Always beautiful but never quite the same. That's a model's job. Cindy kind of nailed it.

^^ "Dumb as a rock" ??

No.

Read the attached link, especially the section about her scholastic achievements.

My favorite Paulina photo. Stunning.

Now, Cindy Crawford looks like Caitlyn Jenner.

Yeah, Cindy wasn't dumb, she knew how to do her job, not get tangled up in drugs and make a lot of money. She had career savvy. What she didn't have is any acting talent, zero, nada. Polina was decent onscreen, not enough to be a star, but she wasn't cringe-inducing on film the way Cindy was. It was when I was watching Cindy trying to act on Third Rock that I believed she could have had an interest in chemical engineering--she came off as a clueless nerd.

Linda Evangelista has penis nose

Joan Severance begat Linda Evangelista

. . . and I married well, very, very well.

Sixty something and she's still absolutely gorgeous. Healthy, wholesome look truly becomes her.

Doesn't Seymour have a weird thing with her son? Like they act pretty loverish towards each other.

R193 - all true. Gia was special and a trailblazer if you can use that verbiage for fashion models. Gia was incredibly "sexy" in a way that most models before her were not. Lesbian or not, she VERY MUCH appealed to straight men vs. just being a hanger for $$$ clothing. Dark, smoldering, voluptuous in all the right places and both tiny and thin in all of the others.. Her eyes spoke volumes. Cindy did owe her career to Gia in many ways (yes, she still had to show up and interview of course). Cindy was stunning but her eyes were not large and smoldering like Gia's (neither were her breasts). Millennials really do not know Cindy anymore; when the discussion of super models comes up - the younger crowd that I have spoken to personally only know Kate Moss. Moss did have an amazingly long run in the pop culture spotlight and she was a breathtakingly beautiful model (a chameleon with huge, bright eyes and a bone structure that none could match). Cindy was less fashion and more commercial/swimsuit/pin-up. It worked and she made a killing. She was a terrible actress, but that is nothing new when it comes to models. Poor Gia could have been a sensation with a few more years under her belt. Drug use that severe just kills bookings - no reliability whatsoever, erratic behavior and track marks all over those beautiful arms. It is what it is; she will be sorely missed by those who became adults years after her time in the business are still wowed by her work (me for instance).

I did hear from someone whose spouse was high up at Victoria's Secret that Stephanie Seymour was as dumb as a box of rocks.

And, yeah, weird pix with her son.

[quote] Brinkley grins because smiling usually makes you look 10 years younger.

Raising the arms above one's head does the same thing for the body. Notice how her 2017 Swimsuit Edition photos all have this same pose.

@R213 and R215: Her son is gay.

Cindy was wholesome, sexy and, when shot by the right photographer, be a bit provocative--mostly because she was very comfortable with her body and shedding clothes artistically--she got that straight guy following.

Gia, though, had a rawness and daring to her. Made for great photos, but she just didn't have boundaries--and that destroyed her pretty quickly. Sad life.

R215 - Stephanie Seymour was gorgeous but really gained notoriety through her torrid affair with John Casablancas (owner of Elite Modeling Agency). He pushed her like crazy to the powers that be and they bit. She started dating rock stars soon after. I would say that she was fortunate to not have succumbed to all of the drugs (as Gia did).

I think she was really, really young when the affair with Casablancas started--15/16. Lot of modelizer behavior wouldn't pass muster these days. Seymour wasn't the only kid who should have been in school.

What about me, bitches?

We're talking about super models, dear, not super twats.

Naomi was the best fashion model of the gang--ballet training, great figure, she could wear anything. But she didn't get the big contracts--and, yeah, you can guess why.

As far as black models go, though, I always thought Iman was more beautiful.

Christy liked Bono, and Bono liked Christy -

Naomi and Linda had the best runway walks and presence -

Fuck off r223!

Rosie Vela switched from modeling to singing.

Beverly Johnson is a very pretty black woman. With white features. Iman and Naomi are the black supermodels.

Dayle Haddon

Sorry Beverly, but Iman still ranks no. 1 for me. I've got you ranked over Pat Cleveland though.

There's more than one Bev!

A video of the Supermodels of the 1990s.

"Unzipped" - 1995

Thank Gawd this film exists -

Cindy, Naomi, Linda, Kate, Carla, Veronica, Liza . . .

[quote]Brinkley is a Trumper

Are you kidding me? Do you know how much money this woman has donated to the Democrats? Much, much more than other celebrities

Whatever you may think about her, she looks great for someone in her 60s.

Phoebe Cates has always been hotter than Janice Dickinson.

^ that's not true^

^yes it is ^

Yes it is!

In the video R232, Christie Turlington is more stunning and graceful than all of them. I never thought she was a beauty but she is more beautiful in motion.

What happened to Janice Dickerson? Was it drugs, alcohol and smoking? Should have used Christie's surgeon.

Janice was b e a u t i f u l no joke.

Yasmeen Ghauri - instantly makes Janice irrelevant and forgotten

"Janice who?"

Who's the stripper R243?

A quick Google search shows that Brinkley was a superdelegate at the 2000 Democratic National Convention. She's also called Trump "smarmy" and said he tried to hit on her.

Doesn't sound like a Trumpster.

Dickinson no matter what she became, started out like this. An exotic, all natural beauty. She had small eyes and very full lips which was not the desired type of her day, but she was very beautiful and a great model.

R245 you mean me?

I knew there was some old fag full of hate posting here. Welcome R248. Why r u so jealous of 40 year old photos?

Hi Janice! Do you think Omarosa will mention you in her book? Also, you were not the first supermodel, Gia was, she made 500k a year and that was the qualifier.

R248 why do you hate yourself?

Gia was a tranny.

Sifting through and discarding the Gia, Janice Dickinson, Twiggy nonsense, the real 80s/90s supermodels were Christie Brinkley, Paulina Porizkova, Cindy Crawford, Christy Turlington, Linda Evangelista, Kate Moss, Helena Christensen.

Um....

Gia's fame ended too early to be considered a "supermodel". It had everything to do with what these models were earning - and it was a rather short period of time when "they didn't get out of bed for less than $10,000 a day". I would agree with most of your choices R253. My picks for supermodel status would be Cindy Crawford, Christy Turlington, Linda Evangelista, Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell, Christie Brinkley, Claudia Schiffer and maybe a couple of others - although these were the top earners and top names within the era. Kate Moss had the best longevity and was the shortest of the bunch (considered too short by most accounts, but became the exception to the modeling height rule).

The "supermodel" era ran from about 1990 to 1996 (give or take a year).. During that period models were considered far more interesting than actresses from a pop culture standpoint and were paid accordingly. Cable fashion television was also at an all-time high which fed this interest. This phenomenon has not occurred before or since and "the Big Six" became incredibly wealthy and famous.

Oh, and Christie Brinkley is the only model listed above who was NOT considered a member of "the Big Six". She was a Sports Illustrated girl and not much else at that time.

What about me?

Elle MacPherson was ‘the body’ and made a stack of money and sometimes gets referred to as a supermodel as well - but think she was another that was more sports illustrated than runway. But her name was known by a big audience - and - a lot of money...

The ONE....the ONLY....

MILLIE!!!

Claudia Schiffer's Brigitte Bardot look fueled her fame at the beginning, but she had no discernable personality, was very boring and uninteresting.

R257 Christie started modeling in the 70s and had major cosmetic campaigns during the 90s. There's no reason she would be lumped with beginning models in their 20s.

I never cared for her either R261, but she was quite popular for a few years and made a ton of money. Schiffer's body was pretty impressive but facially she was nothing special at all.

"Brinkley was discovered in 1973 by American photographer Errol Sawyer in a post office in Paris. He took her first modeling pictures and introduced her to John Casablancas of Elite Model Management agency in Paris. Brinkley stated later: "I was basically a surfer girl from California. I never looked like a model." After being introduced to Elite, where Brinkley met the fashion photographers Patrick Demarchelier and Mike Reinhardt who called Eileen Ford and told her about Brinkley, she returned to California, and by the end of a lunch meeting with Nina Blanchard (Eileen Ford affiliate in Los Angeles) she had been booked for three national ad campaigns."

Christy Turlington was the best looking model of her generation.

Well, ya got your types. The All-American, girl-next door type. Veering more towards pretty than beautiful. Your Brinkley, your Shrimpton, your Tiegs, your Shepherd. The classic beauty type. Your Hutton, your Veruschka, your Parker, your Campbell-Evangelista-Turlington. Then ya 'got.....

When it comes to Nordic/Teutonic blondes, I preferred Vendela to Claudia Schiffer.

no, for teutonic beauties no one can beat Nadja Auerman.

Plastic surgery experts: were Janice's original lips real? Was there any procedure in the late 70s/early 80s that could have created these?

Nadja Auerman had a really interesting other-wordly look about her (face, body and all) and literally the longest pair of legs ever seen in the modeling realm. She was never pretty, but always arresting. For 3 or 4 years she was everywhere and then just vanished. Someone posted about her here not too long ago and mentioned that she has aged terribly. Whatever the case, I am sure that she made a pretty penny in the mid 1990s.

Lächerlich. Nadja ist in einem guten Zustand.

Those are Janice’s real lips. I saw some test shots before her magazine photos. In fact, Eileen Ford rejected her and mentioned her lips. She had a hard time getting work in the beginning. But she was gorgeous

She's like a giant Debbie Harry.

Niki Taylor is another one who was everywhere for a while, then nada.

Oh yeah, Niki's sis died tragically and then she got in a bad car accident that fucked up her liver and scarred her. Then she had kids and retired I guess.

Carol Alt

Jane Forth at R266 IS Miss Tammie Brown

Kristin Mc

you're basing all these models looks on how they look with makeup on. My father was a fashion photographer in the 50's-80's. When I was young and would go into work with him sometimes and would watch these models transform their faces with makeup. I used to think wow they don't even look like the same person that walked in.

Lets just post any old random model as this thread falls apart.

I never thought Kate Moss was beautiful at all. She was just the first of the waif types and became more of a personality than anything else. And she's another who has aged horribly.

Niki Taylor was hatched from Cindy Crawford and Christie Brinkley's ovum.

She had a Cover Girl contact very early in her career, and had a look that was exactly of that moment.

R279 - the one thing that the successful ones had in common was a teeny, tiny frame with both long and slender arms, legs and necks. A stunning facial structure and large eyes are a huge plus as is facial symmetry. Makeup can only change so much. You either have these essential features or you don't - and most women DON'T.

She actually has a terrible personality R281. It is her least attractive asset. Most found her face to be about as flawless (for a runway model) as any ever was. I would agree.

R265 with that obvious nose job? Not really.

R276 she was really pretty but she has terrible skin - Cameron Diaz like.

I always thought Carol Alt, Rachel Hunter and Elle Macpherson looked very Sears catalog with big tits.

Guess? Jeans model Shana Zadrick was a cross between Cindy Crawford and Raquel Welch. She was perfect for the 1990s, embodying the drag queen look that Paris is Burning, Rupaul, and Priscilla, Queen of the Desert popularized.

^ She reminds me a lot of Line Gost, the Guess? model and Sophia Loren lookalike who came along about 10 years ago.

R[265] Christy Turlington has the same messed up cartilage at the tip of her nose that Karen Graham had.

I like that Karen Graham decided to age naturally instead of becoming an oversurged mess.

R290 did she get corrective surgery on her nose there? It looks totally different.

I always liked Shana Zadrick and was disappointed when Claudia Schiffer and Anna Nicole Smith stomped onto the scene and stole her campaign.

Shana Zadrick and Linda Evangelista

Shana looking every inch like Raquel Welch

Shana, more stunning than Christie (just to bring back on topic).

She looks like a man. So does Raquel Welch.

Brinkley is from the same era as Farrah Faucett. Both are toothy American blue eye blondes with deeply tanned skin. It was a different time back then , their looks were highly prized to the exclusion of other phenotypes. We are in the era of the Kardashian and I can't say this is any better.

Back in 2002 we had dinner with a couple who had just returned from a tour of the Amalfi Coast; their favorite visit was to the coastal city of Positano.

While describing their visit to Positano, they'd shared the sights from the cruise they'd taken to Capri. Upon returning to the pier in Positano to disembark, the woman described observing a tall, beautiful, blonde woman, with the longest legs she'd ever seen; she was accompanied by a little boy. The woman and the young boy had boarded a 'lift' in order to board one of the larger yachts in the harbor.

It was Nadja Auermann and her young son.

Madonna and Nadja

Karen Mulder was gorgeous. A living Barbie doll., but sexy. She has aged terribly too (as blonds usually do).

Nadja was amaaazing.

Christie transforms from good girl Sandy from Grease into bad girl Sandy from Grease during the course of her Mastercard commercial

Love this look

Renee Russo was not my idea of beautiful, but she was a very good model.

Cristina Ferrare, model turned frau royalty

Nadja

Christie had a lock on [italic]Glamour[/italic] magazine in the mid-'70s.

Nadja's kinky Helmut Newton "cripple chic" pictorial

R297 what's interesting is that there is still an obsession with bland, even features. The only difference is that dark skin, hair, and fuller figures are now more accepted . What seems to be "in" right now are ethnic women but without overly ethnic features. For example, a big butt and full lips are OK, but a big nose is not.

R307, big face

Turlington was over-rated.

Suzy Parker and Jean Shrimpton were the first supermodels.

Agreed R310. She was always fit during her modeling years yet in photos very often had a "fat face" look. That said, on film (National Lampoon's Vacation) - she looked great. Whatever the case, she was a very pretty woman and very sun-kissed California - if rather bland.

Christie does have a fat face, always. But she has an exquisite shape to her face - it is decidedly heart shaped, like Michelle Pfeiffer. Brinkley has a once in lifetime upward smile as well. Her features are extremely harmonious. She is personally vacant but her face gives her the illusion of some happy, sexy, beautiful secrets.

Don't hate me because I'm beautiful

R306 - great pic of Nadja showing off those longer than humanly possible legs - they never end it seems.

She has said in interviews that she was heavier when she was discovered in Paris. She used to walk around the city eating bread, croissants, chocolate and cheese.

. . . riding on the Christie Brinkley mania was Kim Alexis. Anybody remember her?

Look who switched to Natural Light

She looks very different in this picture though it was taken during the Natural Light shoot

Anybody remember Rod Stewart's former Baby Mama, Kelly Emberg?

The story with these two is, she waited for nearly a million years for him to marry her, even birthed his child; then he ran off and married Rachel Hunter 15 minutes later.

I didn't understand the appeal of Kate Moss when she first came onto the scene. She had her Marky Mark Calvin Klein ads all over, and then she did a Banana Republic campaign. But through the years, she has shown her versatility. She can be placed into practically any modeling session, and fit right in.

More '70s fat-faced Christie. She looked kind of like a farm girl from Scandinavia.

. . . and then there was the lovely model Rachel Williams. DL Home Gurl, if you catch my drift -

Even you want to fuck me...

R309 and why shouldn’t it be? That’s what’s pretty and always will be. I’m not gonna pretend people the likes of Anjelica Huston are pretty when they fucking aren’t.

R314 Brinkley and Pfeiffer actually have very square faces (look at the jaw). I have a heart shaped face but it’s very different. I have high wide cheekbones but my jaw is much narrower.

Brinkley and Pfeiffer are just two rare cases that happen to look beautiful with that shape face. It’s generally (but not always) an unflattering face shape - look at all of the Kennedys. And Fawcett while pretty would have been more beautiful with a softer jaw.

The Most 80s couple award goes to Renee Simonsen and John Taylor

Renee and John

R326, you sound absolutely lovely. You have the classic facial symmetry people now pay millions to achieve.

I forgot about Vendela mentioned above, she was beautiful too

R326 may be lovely but he knows nothing about face shapes. Michelle Pfeiffer has the most famous heart shaped face in the world. Has nothing to do with how wide her jaw is, her face is heart shaped. Jennifer Lopez also has a beautiful heart shaped face. It doesn't get much more feminine. Ask any hairdresser or makeup artist or just fucking google it. I'm in no mood to argue with a loon.

R329 i have no idea if that’s sarcasm , but I wasn’t trying to brag at all - just the difference between those two shape faces.

I think I’m fine - good enough. Anyway, back to regularly scheduled programming.

R331 oh dear...

By definition, heart shaped faces are significantly narrower at the bottom.

How do Pfeiffer and Reese have the same shaped face?

Reese has a heart shape, Pfeiffer’s is Not.

My favorite will always be Jean Shrimpton, not too partial to modern models but to each their own

Heart shapes have a broad forehead and cheekbones, tapering to a narrow (and often pointed) chin. High cheekbones.

Celebrities with heart as face shape: Jennifer Lopez Jennifer Aniston Michelle Pfeiffer Cameron Diaz Keira Knightley Arielle Kebbel Katie Holmes Kristen Bell Tiffani Amber Thiessen

The most successful models can pull off an androgynous look. Linda Evangelista and Cindy Crawford both had masculine features.

Since Christie had a wider face, she could put her hair up or in a hat and she could pull off a boyish look.

This picture would be better if Christie Brinkley, Christy Turlington and Niki Taylor replaced Naomi Campbell, Karen Mulder and Claudia Schiffer.

I agree that Cindy does have a masculine face. I am not sure that I would say the same for Linda's - unique yes, but feminine. Christie has a big, round, pie-shaped face that I assume could easily be androgynous. Very interesting theory; I never considered it but you definitely have a point.

Christy has a goat-y face.

Linda Evangelista, Cindy Crawford and Tatiana Patitz look very masculine from 1:30-3:38 in suits and ties in Peter Lindbergh's "Models, the Film."

video, you say?

R332 - It was a compliment. Chill.

Reese and her "Heart Shaped" face -

The classic heart shaped face has a heart shape tattooed all around the edge

100th anniversary of US Vogue in 1992. Helena should have been included.

Hello. I'm the 80s.

Karen Mulder was exquisite -

Do I see Fredrique in r345? Oh I loved her too.

I had "the Rachel" first.

That's Karen Mulder R348

Good for Niki Taylor for getting in on that Vogue cover right out of the gate. She and Cindy weren't often photographed together with their signature looks and moles.

Back when MTV's House of Style was airing, it featured a showcase on Nikki Taylor. She must have been 19 at the time.

She was perfectly coiffed while driving around a country club in a golf cart; she was laughing and beautifully gorgeous the entire time. As she'd driven past a golfer, he whistled at her. (He appeared to be in his 40s.) Nikki immediately screams at the golfer, "PERVERT!"

R326 You sound bizarrely defensive. And I am sure you look exactly as you say. Lol.

I always thought Twiggy aged pretty well. I think she was a spokeswoman for a British department store a few years back.

R342 it’s the DL really who can tell?

R345 Claudia schiffer is the prettiest on that cover.

R352 I never opined whether I was pretty, ugly, or none of the above. I simply volunteered my face shape.

. . . I, also, married very, very, very well.

Twiggy's website is very frauish, but yeah, she does look good without that Dixie Wetsworth unnatural youthfulness.

Twiggy is the most boring judge they ever had on ANTP. But she didn't talk back to Tyrant, so she got to stay for a while.

She was always saying something devoid of content, like, "I think she's perfectly lovely."

[quote]r355 . . . I, also, married very, very, very well.

I wonder how many STDs Mick Jagger gave Jerry Hall, over time.

^ NOT a heartshaped face, or heart for that matter.

R354 - to each their own. Claudia looked better than usual, but I find Cindy, Linda and Tatjana to be the most striking in this photo (and I am not huge fans of any of the above). Both Turlington's and Naomi's beauty just did not translate here. They all have beautiful hair - man, those were the years of supermodel hair - long, full and luscious. You rarely see that these days.

Naomi's hair extensions are way too long on that Vogue cover. Surprised someone didn't tame that mane.

Lisa Fonssagrives

[quote] In 1949, Time magazine put Lisa Fonssagrives on its cover and dubbed her the billion-dollar baby with a billion-dollar smile and a billion-dollar salesbook in her billion-dollar hand,” The magazine goes further: “She is the new goddess of plenty.”

R362 Lisa Fonssagrives Penn had admirable eyebrows

Naomi and Kate, waiting on the man.

They were all gorgeous.

what 's the name of that british model from the early 2000, she started as plus sized than she lost weight... very blonde and pale. she is beautiful.

r367 do you mean Sophie Dahl?

This scent is good for men, too.

At least, I sometimes wear it.

^^ [bold]WARNING[/bold] : You just need the tiniest amount!

Any kind of face shape can be beautiful.

Anyway, heart-shaped faces: Ruby Rose, ScarJo, Reese Witherspoon, Naomi Campbell, Jessica Alba

Square-shaped faces: Olivia Wilde, Keira Knightley, Linda Evangelista, Sandra Bullock (though she pretty much always hides that jaw line).

Round: Like a square, but minus the jaw--Christie Brinkley and just about every fresh-faced all-American model of the period, Gina Goodwin. Round faces tend to become more square with age, so there's cross-over.

Long/Oblong--this can face shape can difficult, but Sarah Paulson and Liv Tyler manage just fine with it.

But, honestly, a lot of faces are a bit of this and that--and look different depending on age, hairstyle, angle, age . . .

You better put some respect on Carol Alt’s name!

Jean Shrimpton and Veruschka were super models, known by their name. In the junior model category.. Colleen Corby (big in Seventeen magazine, Teen magazine) was also well known.

She is a grapefruit face

She looks beautiful, but she's using the fillers too much now. She's getting a little too puffy faced. Because she has a squarish bone structure, she needs to relax with that.

Brinkley's days of needing to look model-level beautiful ended 3 decades ago. Good for her - just age as gracefully as you can I suppose. Some tweaks work well and others don't. I am positive that she is aware of which procedures fall into what category.

I don't remember why I have some resentment against Carol Alt, but I do.

I think she was some goody-goody Christian or something.

Carol Alt is strikingly beautiful, too. Those eyes..

She has an overdeveloped jaw, particular to the idiotic peasants who emigrated to the US. A sign of many generations clenching their jaw while doing hard labour. The opposite of aristocracy.

Ha.! R103..

R379 is apparently unfamiliar with the Habsburg jaw.

I always thought Christie was a liberal.. not a trump supporter.

Gia again.

Whether one likes it or not, she's probably become the most famous model of the 20th Century. What's fascinating about her is that even though she comes across as insuferable in the book and the movie, you still cry at the end.

I don't know how she's able to affect people that way, still...but she does.

R157.. Yes, Rene Russo.. who still looks gorgeous today, in her sixties.

Rene Russo is actually a good actress, as well.

Yes, she is. She and Pierce Brosnan has more sparks flying in the second version of The Thomas Crown Affair.

*had*

R176... Janice Dickenson was before Cindy.. the 70s and 80s.

Nuanced humor... got it. lol..

Janice Dickinson was the world's first supermodel.

r379 The wide jawlines are typical of the descendants of dumb peasants. The Hasburgs hadn't wide jawlines, dear, on the contrary.

I am going to assume that the first supermodels (based on salary) were Linda, Naomi, Cindy and Christy. They made an absolute killing during the initial "supermodel" years. Kate came a bit later and made just as much and lasted much longer. The term "supermodel" IMO applied to extremely high fees charged and huge name recognition during that era. Yes, many models were noteworthy and very much paved the way for these girls - but they were not "supermodels" as that term was mainstreamed around the time that the above list ruled the world so-to-speak.

Gia was the first supermodel, she made 500k one year, that's how it was determined.

Janice Dickinson was the world's first supermodel. Everybody has already been informed.

I never got Kate Moss at all. She's not that tall, for a model, and very average looks.

I agree r395, I think it's her total chameleon face. She is to modeling what Jennifer Jason Leigh is to acting.

[quote]r372 Makeup artist Sandy Linter made an interesting series of videos about Gia Carangi, featuring their mutual coworkers. Carol Alt is in a few of them.

I am not sure that the term was coined then, but Gia is BY FAR my favorite of the above girls R393. She was jaw-droppingly beautiful, sexy, famous and of course also infamous. R395 - Kate had the perfect face according to the taste-makers of the fashion realm as well as according to scientists (see link). She is older now (obviously) but rocked the fashion world in the early to mid 1990's. Kate Moss, Elizabeth Taylor, Anne Heche, Halle Berry and just a handful of other women can boast the fact that they have(had) the most beautiful facial symmetry in nature.

There was an HBO documentary a few years ago (2012).. "Saving Face", about the super models, Christie included, and what they went through in their careers and what they're doing today. I thought it was interesting. If you have HBO on demand, it's still there.

R391--oh, so now "overdeveloped" is "wide".

Nah, you forgot about the Habsburg jaw--turn in your snob card.

Christy Turlington has the same type of beauty as Audrey Hepburn.

Here is the HBO documentary time capsule you want to watch. Beautiful Baby. 4 Parts. Models featured include Christie, Iman, Tiegs, Jerry Hall, Janice Dickinson, Pat Cleveland, Renee Russo, Christina Ferrare and some of the top photographers, designers and makeup artists of the day. Wilhelmina, Suzy Parker and those awful Fords are in it too. A few male models. The documentary was made in 1981 and all the top models of the time seem to take part. Gia is not even mentioned.

r400 Yes, because clenching your jaw while doing hard work which requires a lot of physical strength, produces overdeveloped wide jawlines, as you must know, idiotic hillbily. Take a look at your family album.

[quote]r398 Gia is BY FAR my favorite of the above girls [R393]. She was jaw-droppingly beautiful, sexy, famous and of course also infamous.

I would tend to agree with you. All these girls are, of course, beautiful...but if you're going to go beyond that, you start looking at their physical movements, their emotion, and how connected (or not) the two are.

If you look at the full image linked below, Gia is emotionally present. She has created a mood, a story, with her body. It is subtly poetic...and it was her first professional job. This is a higher calibur of work than someone like Christie Brinkley, et al, were capable of.

^^ The day's work that preceeded that final setup, which was impromptu

Christy Turlington was one of the few models who photographed well head on. I always found her jaw line a little thin, but she was considered to have an ideally proportioned face and neck by a lot of people in fashion, so what do I know?

Kate Moss was weirdly versatile, she could make just about any scenario work and she seems to actually like modeling--making a good picture. She also has a sense of style that few other models have had. I've always liked the fact that she just did her job without trying to be an actress or a celebrity on talk shows. She's done very few interviews over the years. She mostly just did her job and partied afterwards.

R247.. Janice Dickinson was the antithesis of the all American blonde models that were popular in the 70s and 80s. She had a very exotic look. Her look is more common in models, today.. leaning toward appealing internationally.

r407 I think this is my favorite Janice Dickinson cover

This is my favorite photo of her

R260... OMG... Millie the Model!... and Tippy Teen. Wow.. a throwback to my youth. I loved Betty and Veronica, too.. much better than Archie.

R269.. I think Dickinson's lips are real. They were beautiful, evenly full... top and bottom lip.

Janice

R303, it looks like Madonna stole that look from her for Vogue.

Janice and Gia together.

Gia just looks more ALIVE. And that is a great model.

R393, if we're going by financial earnings as the rubric, there's debate as to who landed the first million dollar contract: Lauren Hutton for Revlon or Margaux Hemingway for Fabergé. Nonetheless, Vogue magazine declared Margaux "New York's New Supermodel" back in Sept 1975. Awful cover, though. Why is she hunched over like she was punched in the gut or is about to lose her cookies?

Margaux had a great face. I think women liked that she wasn't starved looking.

Strong

Margaux Hemingway is forgotten and rightfully so. Big homely horse.

Margaux looks rural

It's interesting no one's mentioned (?) Christina Ferrare. She was a big money maker.

More 70s than 80s, however.

Fuck you, r418 !

R420, R305 mentioned Cristina.

Fuck Cristina, too!

You want innocent? [italic]I can do innocent!

Margaux Hemingway was the least attractive top model in history. Big as a horse and twice as dumb. Her face was HUGE and she conveyed nothing in photos. She couldn't even look elegant with those lips and cheekbones. She had those heavy brows and those HUGE fucking features. She wasn't ugly but the impression was. She looked like a retarded Ingrid Bergman.

Cristina Ferrare's husband was a g-damn COKE DEALER!!

But suddenly [italic]I'm[/italic] some "wild child"??

FUCK THAT NOISE!

Lisa Taylor I don’t think has been mentioned yet - beautiful. But she got really hooked on drugs and quit so she wouldn’t be tempted anymore. Or so how’s the story. She made a mini comback for Calvin Klein in 1992 and looked great.

I think people are idolizing Gia here because she died young, like a female James Dean. She's a beautiful tragic figure, that's her appeal.

Knowing more about her off-camera life does seem to give her more intimacy and depth...but honestly, her photos did have that, already.

r427 She has chosen the most interesting pose out of all the female models in this shot

She was great

R419 Christie Brinkley too. She has this rural wide face.

R383 spoken like a deluded stan.

Sheesh the stanning in this thread! And where are the Gong Li and Capucine stans? This thread is right up their alley. Stan stan stan stan fap fap fap fap. Caucine was Givenchy's muse and one of the comparatively few models to make a go at cinema stardom.

Wide, square faces generally indicate a fair amount of testosterone and/or Scandinavian or Germanic ancestry, no?

Watcha talkin' about, bitches? Margaux was gorgeous. A short-lived beauty (like her sister's), but beautiful nonetheless.

[quote] She had those heavy brows What's wrong with heavy brows?

Margaux was gorgeous. Bunch of gay old uggs on this thread.

Iconic Nadja cover, emulated by makeup artists since 1994:

Huh, let me try this again:

Sanpaku

Margot Hemingway was a cow. Unfathomable that she became a top model. She radiated nothing but stupidity.

It scares me how much a face changes over time. How did Brooke go from looking like a goddess to looking like this?? It's not even the same profile anymore.

Margaux was a celebrity spawn model. Not necessarily a "top model".

I loved Margaux look. Sad she died so young

Had Margaux been able to act, her life might have gone a different way.

However, had she stayed in NY and not gone Hollywood, she might have been the pre-Gia Gia.

(Also...we’d never have gotten Mariel...)

Time r441, and she doesn't look that bad, Jesus, dramatic much?

Christy has a wonky eye

don't tell me Kate's face was more perfect than Audrey's

R446 no one’s eyes are 100 percent symmetrical.

They KNEW my name, Darling!

R446, yes, she does. Jean Shrimpton was the best of them all.

I think Kim Alexis is the Jesusy one, R377. Pretty sure Cristina Ferrare also went through a born-again phase.

The pic of Paulina at r206 shows her to be the most beautiful of the supermodels. The pic showcases her perfect face, but her body was amazing as well. Contrast her intelligent look to the vacant look of Kendall Jenner...

You're stanning is delusional if you can't give Kendall at least a good model body.

I was Ric's first love!

I remember on Fashion Television in the 90s an older woman editor looking at photos of Christy Turlington and saying "See, when she gets tired, the eye goes..."

Christy Turlington and Linda Evangelista will always be two of the greatest models ever. They aren't known for swimsuit and lingerie modeling and showing their tits all the time,like Cindy Crawford, Helena Christensen, Claudia Schiffer, Stephanie Seymour, Kate Moss, Naomi C

Linda E. has such a repulsive personality, it's hard for me to look at her pictures objectively. Every now and then some would catch my eye, and I'd admire them. But she's kind of gross.

There was some campaign she did looking kind of Italian, with a group of non model mama types. She was in a black dress, with a little crucifix. Those were very striking.

THIS might have been part of it, but the one I really liked was an outdoor shot, I think.

Linda Evangelista was absolutely known to be a bitch - incredibly conceited and generally nasty to anyone who she deemed her inferiors. Naomi had a temper at times, but Linda's resting state was bitch (according to most accounts). Oh well, she was both striking and uniquely beautiful - and very, very lucky. She was the supermodel who coined the "I don't get out of bed for less than $10,000 a day" bit. Beautiful (if odd), right time, right place, right attitude. From the start of her career, she was always moderately successful (being a muse to at least 2 influential photographers), but cutting her long hair very short made her into a superstar. Most credit her with the genesis of the "supermodel" era - and she was arguably the most successful (number of magazine covers, shows walked, etc.). Ultimately, she was absolutely a "chameleon", but not one with much staying power. Kate Moss wins that blue ribbon - spanning the early 1990's until....well now really.

Linda E is 10 x the model that little ratface Gia was. Linda is the great actress - attitude, beauty, fashion, sex. You've caught her in the middle of something always. She's cinematic. She was kind of a genius of modelling. The best POSES always from the most regal and elegant beauty to the toughest chick in town. But she never looked like a catalogue model in clothes (hey gia) Linda is high fashion and glamor AND something going on inside.

The Top Ten models of modern times haven't really changed. It's pretty easy to build consensus. Evangelista will always be one of them. Gia, never.

R457, I believe this was the shot - "Beauty and the Seven Beasts". Racist title of course LOL.

There is no doubt that Linda was easily one of the greatest top 3 models of all time R459. I don't get your Gia hate, but I have no dog in the fight really. Linda will always be a top 3 and Gia (despite your dislike) could maybe squeak into the top 10 or 15, but just barely. Gia was not active long enough, nor was she active at a time when modeling super-stardom was yet a possibility. That said, the layperson off the street (particularly straight males, but basically anyone) would pick Gia to be the more gorgeous of the two women - 99 times out of 100.

Agree r461, I think Linda is absolutely gorgeous too and more so than Gia but I think the average male would pick Gia every time.

Yes and the average male would pick Brinkley over both of them. So what's the point? The thread is about influential and famous and fabulous models. Not who your brother-in-law would rather fuck.

Linda E just told you a story AND sold you that damn purse. You don't even know it yet! The woman in this photo may intimidate you but you want to know more and you need that purse. Linda is what fashion modelling is all about. Aspirational selling. Romance, drama, glamour, elegance, decadence. She is everything you can't have - she has a thousand different faces. Just buy the purse. Evangelista was da bomb. A muse.

I agree with you r463, I think Linda is the most beautiful woman ever to model, but I can see people would pick Gia. Though that Guess girl whose name I never knew until now was also very pretty, the Cindy looking one.

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Most men do not buy purses R463, but I get your point and as I have stated above - Linda is easily a top 3 of-all-time model and I theorize that she appealed to other women. Women love to objectify women as well. Beautiful, tiny, well-proportioned bodies and symmetric features are always a commodity. Linda was (now she is a very average, plump woman at best) all of those things and yet possessed a non-threatening, almost alien appeal. Both Christie and Gia exuded sex appeal towards men - which could either threaten a woman or inspire the said woman to try to emulate the beautiful model - often times a slippery slope. Linda's appeal was that she was not terribly threatening and that she was also a great print model (her energy was palpable from the print ads). Gia was every bit as gorgeous as Christie and many would say that she was far more so. Beautiful blond or beautiful brunette? That would be the selection criteria really. These days - the average male polled will likely go for Gia (she had better almost everything than Christie - despite her olive skin tone and thick dark brown hair). Darker features with Caucasian skin tones are more in vogue now than sunburnt, round-faced, short blonds. Back in the 1980's, Christie would most likely have won the coin toss. Now, not so much. Again, none of this matters if the model is not able to SELL a product. Linda did that in spades.

I think Linda E. was someone who appealed to professionals in the fashion industry....while a smaller number of other models over the years (like Lauren Hutton, Gia, and yes, Christie Brinkley) were embraced by the public.as women they could identify with, women that men also found sexy and intriguing. It's a different kind of thing, where it isn't only about fashion anymore.

It's about striking a major chord.

The purse is a metaphor. Gia is unremarkable. You're nuts.

You don't have to knock Gia (or poor Margaux) just because they hold a special place in pop culture or fashion history above whoever it is you like.

Gia is not unremarkable. NONE of these girls were unremarkable, or we wouldn't know them.

My wise grandfather used to say " A difference of opinion is why poor land sells and ugly women get married". No one is nuts here - this is a discussion on a gay forum about either really old or now dead fashion models. Your metaphor still applies only to women's clothing one way or the other - be it a purse, fragrance, hosiery - all the same R468. Take a deep breath and exhale - no one cares all that much and all of these women were amazing during different eras for a multitude of reasons. Your precious Linda is very likely the #1 model of all time; there is no need to Gia-bash in order to get your point across.

Yes r470! And I bet Gia would have loved Linda as much as we do, and maybe some hot lesbian action would have made Linda much less cunty.

Back in the day, the rumor was that Linda was bi, as was Cindy Crawford, but Linda preferred girls.

[quote]r471 maybe some hot lesbian action would have made Linda much less cunty.

Well, I don't know that we can hope for [italic]miracles.[/italic] But maybe.

So, how did Shari Belafonte Harper end up being a model? She was 5'4"...and while historiacally there have been shorter models (Jean Patchett, Mary Jane Russell) (even Lauren Hutton and Gia) who were under the industry standard, none of them were THAT short.

Was she thrown a bone because she was the child of a celeb? Or did they need a new black cover girl at that specific point in time in the early 80s? She was on a LOT of covers!

It took a long time for Linda's career to take off. She didn't make it early, not until she married one of the managers of Elite Europe, Gerald Marie IIRC...

Loved Cindy and Christy.

But Suzy Parker was the first model to become famous for other things like films and television. And she was absolutely lovely.

Loved Beverly and Iman as well. And Naomi, as crazy as she is, made black women with decidedly West African features en vogue. I don’t think Tyra came close.

Despite the book and cable movie, Gia was not famous or well-known outside the industry. People watched the movie for angelina Jolie, not because they cared about some crackhead lesbian who died of AIDS. Yeah, she started out beautiful but some of you seem to think she was god's gift to modeling when she was really just someone who was able to pose,probably because she was aching for her next fix.

Angelina wasn't a name when she made "Gia". In fact, "Gia" is what got everyone talking about Angelina Jolie. That said, Gia was not a big celebrity model when she was working--she was known in the industry, of course, but her drug habit made for a short career, despite some amazing pictures earlier on. She had one American Vogue cover, whereas models like Paulina and Cindy Crawford had multiple covers. Gia would have had that, but drugs did a number on her looks as well as her professionalism. She worked for about three years before her drug habit did a number on it. The big celebrity models all worked longer than that--with Kate Moss working well over 20 (Actually Moss still does some modeling and has now started a modeling agency. Wonder how that will go?)

Gia was a little like Edie Sedgwick in that a book about her tragic life story made her more famous after her death than she was before it.

Gia's abcess-y, track mark arms, they couldn't always airbrush them.

Fuck it, just sit on them and we'll go from there.

Shari had the face, definitely. She also had acceptably short hair, yet had the European features to make her acceptable to the modeling industry. I’ve read some of the things said about black models and it’s absolutely horrible, the things that they say and do to them.

R481, that was Gia's last cover, I think. Her face was all puffy from methadone and she was attempting a comeback. Scavullo was trying to give her a break, but she no longer had the look she'd had.

Re: Shari Belafonte--she got a break because of the celeb kid thing. Her face was beautiful, but she wouldn't have gotten through the front door without the name. Non-celebs have to have it all, celeb kids just to have part of it. Hell, I remember when Ivanka Trump modeled--she had the height, but her face was like a pudding, but she got work because of who she was.

Here you go--Ivanka pre-plastic surgeries and bleach job:

Gia’s last COSMO cover was sad. I wonder if it moved copies? The thing about her model status was, even if all the customers didn’t know her name, all her issues would sell out. For a while there, anyway.

Sad.

Give it a rest. Cosmo covers are nothing interesting in hindsight. It was a ridiculous magazine and Scavullo could make Mindy Cohen look like a Cosmo Girl. The covers were a formula, a drone, a visual quaalude. Gia looked like shit there for a 22 year old chick. She looked 42. Even the greatest models looked all the same on Cosmo. See Lauren Hutton's Cosmo cover, she looks like a cross eyed Sears model and she was really the coolest louchest chick in downtown NYC. Gia looks like a Blockbuster employee strung out at the prom. Only one of the girls with supernatural perfect faces could make those bland propaganda covers look close to human. Odd. Because of course the covers flattened everyone to nothing but a dress and makeup.

Janice Dickinson, often disrespected here, appeared on 37 Vogue covers. More than most anyone.

The gia stan here is pathetic, delusional and slightly amusing.

When I said Gia’s last COSMO cover was sad, I was acknowledging it looks awful. Hence the following sentence, “I wonder if it moved copies?”

The Gia stan is also the Jessica Lange Loon and currently promoting the unearthly beauty of Sharon Tate too!

It talks to itself from two devices, watch out for it.

The person who says "stan" all the time is even more annoying.

Nope, I'm not more annoying. Stans are the worst when they really dig in, as here.

Plus I win the Avita Creeping Fingers Ronell award for prescient deconstruction, as I associated the Gia and Sharon Tate stans together in my recent poll.

Gia. In the top 10 or 15 models of all time.

To die for. ROFL.

Turlington has no personality.

I agree with R492; but she has a big following on DL.

"I know she is supposed to be the embodiment of american beauty, the paradigm, but her square face turns me off. Pretty girl and all, but hardly a great beauty."

Models often aren't great beauties (though obviously some are). The key is to look model-y, and and comes in beautiful and non-beautiful forms and everywhere in between.

The way one gleans a poster’s mental health is by measuring the levels of hostility and aggression in their stance.

Sadly, the r490 anti-Gia person here also comes across as the antichrist (not to put too fine a point on it.)

Do you remember when Lauren Hutton had an interview show and there was something going on with the camera and mirrors or something. It as short lived, but the few episodes I saw weren't bad.

Ha I'm not anti-Gia. Never knew her. I am making fun of you for sharting on so ridiculously about how great she was and her place in model history.

Yes the cameras focused on mirrors and reflections talk show. It was so of its moment. I sort of liked it.

What I want to know is how someone this heinously unattractive got put in the same boat as Christie, Cindy, Gia or Linda (etc.)

I never thought Kate Moss attractive but she was better than this one.

But Gisele is just a figure model, no? Like VS shows and SI swimsuit, she's not a print model is she?

Money talks.

Anyone who is consistently in the top ten for several years deserved to be called a supermodel, at least while they remain in the zeitgeist. Later, of course, many will fade into oblivion.

Here are the 10 high-earning models who made Forbes‘ 2017:

Kendall Jenner, $22 million

Gisele Bundchen, $17.5 million

Chrissy Teigen, $13.5 million

Adriana Lima, $10.5 million

Gigi Hadid, $9.5 million

Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, $9.5 million

Karlie Kloss, $9 million

Liu Wen, $6.5 million

Bella Hadid, $6 million

Ashley Graham, $5.5 million

The idea of Chrissy Teigen being a super model is laughable as I assume much of that came from entertainment work.

Gisele was at the top for years, so yeah, might as well call her a supermodel.

Who is R497 talking to anyway? He's having a mental breakdown all due to multiple posters (it's easy to figure that out) making benignly positive comments about a poor fashion model who passed away in the 80's. Weird.

This Vogue article calls Gisele a supermodel.

I was popular in my day...

Turlington is married to Ed Bums, with his annoying voice and annoying movies. Remember when he was supposed to be a big deal in the 90’s? Boy, did he luck out marrying a supermodel. I actually don’t think Christy is that beautiful or interesting but she does seem like a nice person.

Talking to you R502. Just the one, dear.

Good try but not "multiple posters". You do know we still have trolldar?

You posted 10 long arguments about Gia in this thread and also over 20+ posts in this thread.

It's just your stunning I've called out as ridiculous because Gia is certainly not in the top 10 models in modeling history.

Ed Bums seems like a reliable husband and I think he's a great, aging hunk.

Christy Turlington bathes in the blood of virgins. She hasn't aged a day and looks great without makeup.

I hate her.

Eddie Burns doesn't suffer the Irish Curse.

Christy Turlington is a walking advertisement for yoga. It makes everyone look their best, and she has gone as far as you can go with her poses.

Karma has hit Evangelista like a Mack truck...

So you did exactly what I recommended (not that it takes much cognitive power to figure out ), R506 - which should make it very clear that multiple people have posted the name Gia in this discussion (approximately 50 plus posts and running). When one does the math, 50 posts minus 10 posts = 40 other posters aka MULTIPLE POSTERS. What you will NOT notice in my posts is either venom or nastiness. You might want to try that route as well.

I'm not being nasty I'm merely pointing out you are a deluded stan. And someone else suggested you are also the Sharon Tate stan, who has been the subject of our morbid fascination, pity, and light amusement for several years. Bravo for branching out to Gia.

I totally forgot about Frederique. I loved her. Not sure she was an outstanding model, but she was a character. Mannish, gravely voice, and seemed not to take it too seriously. She's only 50?

The Gia is the most beautiful model of all time poster has many more than 10 posts on this thread. He posts from two sites and answers himself, always in response to a REAL poster. One of his personas is expansive and more open minded, the other is childish and fake naive. A stan AND a troll in one.

He likes Margaux Hemingway too and hates Cindy Crawford and Evangelista. He'll post something funny because he's a dual personality, but there's not humor in it.

Gia was a rat faced junkie whose "great" career lasted less than 3 years. She was pretty and did look good for about 9 months. She wasn't just a junkie, she was a miserable bitch that nobody understood. That poster has enormous and knowledgeable (google) crushes on a few unlikely or unpopular women. He's lonely and relentless and is probably just a mentally ill a lesbian. Except he's a dude. Also the Lange Loon.

Watch for his multiple posts, he'll come in with a non sequitur about another model or some other trivia but you can recognize his crazy and his style once you see the pattern.

Karma didn't hit Evangelista. She's the most famous and praised model in history. She's living her life. Karma hit Naomi Campbell and ugly Kate Moss and a few others trying desperately to remain glorious, when their only talent was their genetics and luck.

KARMA didn't touch Gia. Her life was unlucky. She was an average looking italian dyke who got lucky, tasted fame and demanded everything. They all lied about her. There are few pictures of her that don't show her heroin eyes. She was used and she used them. She was a bit pretty in professional photos only, but nowhere as striking or beautiful as her "successor" Cindy. Only mentally ill people are attached to Gia's memory. A models life is never important and she did nothing to redeem herself as a human being. Quite the contrary. She was to be avoided. One or two models transcend this as one or two designers transcend the waste of time that is fashion.

SO, Keep multiple posting LOON. One sign of your illness matt is that you never tire. But you consider yourself more clever and knowledgeable than you are. You picked a loser with Gia. You won't convince anyone of her greatness.

R508 well she has a fair amount of fine lines but nothing else has changed- nothing has sagged, no part of her face has gotten thinner or fatter, she hasn’t “altered” her face in any way. Does that make sense? I have far fewer lines than she does but I would say I’ve aged worse thus far because attention is drawn to the lower part of my face (as often happens when you age) and I just look more “tired.”

Also doesn’t she have emphysema ? How is she even living?

Wow...just wow R515...

Top Ten Supermodels: Christie Brinkley, Paulina Porizkova, Helena Christensen, Kate Moss, Christy Turlington, Linda Evangelista, Stephanie Seymour, Niki Taylor, Milla Jovovich, Tatiana Patitz

Downgraded from Supermodel to Average Model: Elle Macpherson, Rachel Hunter, Carol Alt, Gisele Bundchen

Gisele was the first of the Brazilian wave of models, so she was the start of a big wave--great body and good, energetic mover in photos, so fashion magazines really liked her. Once read that she had the best back in modeling (modeling's so weird that way--people in fashion really do have opinions about body bits and pieces.) Also good hair. Not a great face, but a lot of models don't have great faces--often too thin and angular.

Gisele's photogenic, which isn't the same as beautiful.

I think you forgot Naomi , R518.

Oh I forgot about unattractive Chrissy Tiegen, I hear all the time that she's a model but she's always been a chubby faced, average looking chick that I've seen. And Kendall Jenner? Jesus. Kendall and Chrissy shouldn't be in the same sentence as Linda and Paulina.

The times a changing.

Naomi Sims

Christie was very fetching and certainly was iconic. I think that she was one of the first "cross-over stars". Her acting ability was dim at best, but she did light up the screen when she attempted. Gia Carangi however was drop-dead gorgeous. Gia was one of the very few supermodels who had large tits and yet was very much still in demand. She also had the most beautiful hair of any model - EVER

Karen Alexander

Also, did anyone mention Gia had large tits?

Folklore is that Cindy Crawford owes her career to Gia. Gia's departure from the business do to drug abuse and later AIDS left a void for a dark haired/olive skinned beauty. Gia paved the way and Cindy just hitched a ride. Both were undeniably beautiful although Gia had much better breasts (again, a successful fashion model with large breasts was also unheard of). Gia's name today would have been much bigger had the drug use not ruined her career so quickly

Gia was special and a trailblazer if you can use that verbiage for fashion models. Gia was incredibly "sexy" in a way that most models before her were not. Lesbian or not, she VERY MUCH appealed to straight men vs. just being a hanger for $$$ clothing. Dark, smoldering, voluptuous in all the right places and both tiny and thin in all of the others.. Her eyes spoke volumes. Cindy did owe her career to Gia in many ways (yes, she still had to show up and interview of course). Cindy was stunning but her eyes were not large and smoldering like Gia's (neither were her breasts). Millennials really do not know Cindy anymore; when the discussion of super models comes up - the younger crowd that I have spoken to personally only know Kate Moss. Moss did have an amazingly long run in the pop culture spotlight and she was a breathtakingly beautiful model (a chameleon with huge, bright eyes and a bone structure that none could match). Cindy was less fashion and more commercial/swimsuit/pin-up. It worked and she made a killing. She was a terrible actress, but that is nothing new when it comes to models. Poor Gia could have been a sensation with a few more years under her belt. Drug use that severe just kills bookings - no reliability whatsoever, erratic behavior and track marks all over those beautiful arms. It is what it is; she will be sorely missed by those who became adults years after her time in the business are still wowed by her work (me for instance)

I've never looked at a picture of Naomi and separated the image from her nasty personality.

Christy Turlington and Linda Evangelista aren't the sweetest girls, but are able to transcend their shallow nature for good photo.

My wise grandfather used to say " A difference of opinion is why poor land sells and ugly women get married". He also used to make me suck his cock and lick his old nutsack. I had to suck for hours while I looked through Cosmo. BUTT, no one is nuts here - this is a discussion on a gay forum about either really old or now dead fashion models. Your metaphor still applies only to women's clothing one way or the other - be it a purse, fragrance, hosiery - all the same R468. Take a deep breath and exhale - no one cares all that much and all of these women were amazing during different eras for a multitude of reasons. Your precious Linda is very likely the #1 model of all time; there is no need to Gia-bash in order to get your point across.

I am not sure that the term was coined then, but Gia is BY FAR my favorite of the above girls R393. She was jaw-droppingly beautiful, sexy, famous and of course also infamous. R395 - Kate had the perfect face according to the taste-makers of the fashion realm as well as according to scientists (see link). She is older now (obviously) but rocked the fashion world in the early to mid 1990's. Kate Moss, Elizabeth Taylor, Anne Heche, Halle Berry and just a handful of other women can boast the fact that they have(had) the most beautiful facial symmetry in nature. I have a homemade Gia dildo if anyone is interested in marketing me?

"Millennials really do not know Cindy anymore; when the discussion of super models comes up - the younger crowd that I have spoken to personally only know Kate Moss"

There's an 8 year age difference and Moss is still around. It's not like the next generation is going to "know" Moss "when the discussion of supermodels" comes up (which it rarely will).

My god we didn't shut it down, it's getting worse!

Linda Evangelista was absolutely known to be a bitch - incredibly conceited and generally nasty to anyone who she deemed her inferiors. Naomi had a temper at times, but Linda's resting state was bitch (according to most accounts). Oh well, she was both striking and uniquely beautiful - and very, very lucky. She was the supermodel who coined the "I don't get out of bed for less than $10,000 a day" bit. Beautiful (if odd), right time, right place, right attitude. From the start of her career, she was always moderately successful (being a muse to at least 2 influential photographers), but cutting her long hair very short made her into a superstar. Most credit her with the genesis of the "supermodel" era - and she was arguably the most successful (number of magazine covers, shows walked, etc.). Ultimately, she was absolutely a "chameleon", but not one with much staying power. Kate Moss wins that blue ribbon - spanning the early 1990's until....well now really. I'm a 70 year old fag, but I call myself Gia. I'm too sweet to be Linda.

Androgynous Linda and Cindy

Jesus, Cindy looks like Simple Jack in that picture!

Gia did back alley gangbangs for fast money for junk. She never said " don't you know who I am" ... because nobody ever did.

R87 & R89. INSUFFERABLE.

Marilyn Monroe was a size 12 dress at one point in NY when she first married Miller and wasnt making movies for fox constantly. Her body changed thru her career and in some times she was stunning and at others larger but still beautiful. Interestingly the last 2 years of her life she became anorexic believe it or not....... and she lost a hell of a lot of weight. She was extremely thin the last 9 months......at her autopsy (marilyn) weighed 116 lbs and was 5 ft 6.

Did anyone mention Gia's tits?

Gia had nice hair, but nothing spectacular like Kirsty Hume's, whose career was all about the hair.

R518, what about Claudia who did great covers and editorial with Lindbergh and Demarchelier for Bazaar but also campaigns for Chanel, Revlon and L'oreal?

Since r540 brought it up:

I think it was Scavullo's assistant Sean Byrnes (who'd seen them ALL) who believed Ms. Carangi's set to be the nicest he'd ever seen.

R540 fashion models don’t want to have big tits. They want to be skinny and look great in clothes.

You’d think a gay discussion board of all places would get that. Who cares?

A lot of Italian girls do have naturally big tits though - certainly not WASPs.

The BIGGEST supermodel of 'em all...!

R314 I am here to tell you that fat faced girls with heart shaped faces age better than any other--blond or brunette. When I was young I HATED my face shape and my rather high but full cheeks. I even looked into the surgery in which the fat pads inside the cheeks are removed in order to give you a more sucked in look.

Well here I am, Christie's age(also named Christie) and I am so happy that I left my cheeks as they were. So many of my peers have that drawn, tired long face look now and I still have the apple cheeks happening. And, FWIW, I too was a sun baby in my 20s and I have nearly wrinkle and line free skin on my face. I did have a serious peel in my 30s to get rid of the sun damage, and I wouldn't be a bit surprised if CB did as well.

Gia? Has anyone yet mentioned her?

Speaking of Gia r547 (haha), she did have the it factor. Her pics are like works of art.

Christie B was a spectacular specimen of blonde/blue eyed beauty. She has the cutest nose and fantastic hair

You can take any single frame of film of Christie from "Vacation" and use it as an advertisement or professional editorial photo.

Christie had a wholesome, very healthy, California golden girl image, who looked great in swim suits and outdoorsy backgrounds. She may not have been high fashion (though, I think she did Vogue covers and some editorial work?), or did runways (that I recall), but she was great for the Cover Girl campaigns and SI. She reminds me of Farrah Fawcett in that way.. glowing good looks.

Christie did a lot more high fashion magazine covers and editorial than swimsuiits.

Brinkley can't keep a man.

At least I can keep a waistline and don't hang out with pedos, bitch Liz!

Sweet Naomi and the other Christie, Kate and Mia Farrow with Mandela. Nice pic.

I'm sure Elaine Irwin was thrilled with Christie dating John Cougar.

Irwin was probably laughing that Brinkley was dating her leftovers.

Brinkley couldn't even hang on to Mellencamp.

Yes because no matter how good she looks or how many tasteful procedures she has had, Brinkley is still a woman in her sixties. Very few men want to fuck that. Rupert Murdoch is already taken.

Elaine Irwin has a Caroline Bessette look that was popular in the 90s

I think Christie B might be a chore to be around. She does seem always on and that smile freaks me out.

Christie seems to love attention and being in the limelight. She adores the cameras. Imagine, trying to be with her, if you don't want publicity and having cameras in your face. Mellencamp, when being photographed with Christie, always looked sullen and annoyed while she's posing it up.

She kind of looks like the Joker’s slutty little sister...

Linda Evangelista - Diva Absulota

circa 2012 -

I find Linda's work too detached and COLD, in general. Obviously she has nice bone structure and is a professional, but there's nothing about her I find really appealing. The best models create a world they hint at, or draw you into. She's mechanical to me.

You continue to be nuts R563. Tell us more about Gia's tits.

the coldness was evangelista's main appeal. she looked like a beautiful cyborg.

R565 I do think her shallow frostiness works when she's mimicking vintage models...because that look was often very "poised plaster mannequin" to begin with.

I don't think R563's analysis is unreasonable.

Linda’s eyes are spaced too far apart.

R564 continues to think that everyone posting on this thread is the same person. Freak.

r563 is right about Linda E. being a COLD model - Patrick Demarchelier propelled her to the top of the modeling game by being COLD. There's not been a model like her since MCM superstar Dovima who captured that "mannequin" fashion icon status. And I await the changing of the guard of this current model crop of un-named Soviet Block waifs. Plus I hate this latest crop of socialite models: aka any Kardashian or Jenner

Or even worse - Hadid...

You are the same person R569, R570, R563 + your hundreds of other posts on this thread. You post from two devices but we know who you are. Your use of CAPS and your lack of knowledge regarding photography give you away erryday. You respond to your own posts within minutes. No matter what time of day. You post obsessively on the Sharon Tate and Jessica Lange threads too. All THAT and YOUR obsession with a model who is remembered for nothing but being a junkie prove you're NUTS.

[quote]R570 is right about Linda E. being a COLD model - Patrick Demarchelier propelled her to the top of the modeling game by being COLD.

I thought she was associated with Peter Meisel? Patrick Demarchelier is older...like a contemporary of Scavullo, practically. He wasn't in a position to discover anyone during Evangelista's peak.

^^ Sorry...STEVEN Meisel. Not Peter.

Laughing so hard that I can't catch my breath at R572 - the nelly, hysterical, histrionic freak who copies/pastes older posts obsessively and adds in his own nasty side notes and then screams at anyone who doesn't agree with his warped point of view.

I posted about Gia too and am not the Lange/Sharon Tate troll, I just like Gia. I like Linda the most though.

Linda E is a good example of how, in modeling, imperfect features (weird nose, wide set eyes) can result in a perfect photo image...

I would bet that none of us are this Lange/Sharon Tate troll - whatever that means. He just can't stand anyone mentioning Gia. Just ignore his ranting; I have. And yes - Linda E is probably the most famous model of all time - she was both very striking and very accomplished.

You homosexuals are so amusing, carrying on and fighting over a topic as silly as supermodels! Especially when everyone knows *I* am the greatest model ever!

Linda Evangelista is definitely not the most famous model of all time.

Even today, Christie Brinkley is much more famous.

Linda was adored by photographers and the fashion world, but she was never a model with huge crossover/mainstream appeal. She was never on the cover of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, which is one of the big things for getting a model a large non-fashion following. She definitely fits in the "supermodel" category and she had the Ralph Lauren campaign, but I never heard straight guys talk about/drool over her, which I heard for models like Cindy, Christie, Paulina, Cheryl Tiegs. Even Kate Moss worked a sexier angle than Linda--Kate may have been a waif, but she had a comfort with nudity that made up for that.

But Linda was never about sexiness and that limited her non-fashion fame.

I could appreciate the diversity of Paulina, whose SI shots were incredibly sexy and her Estée Lauder shots were the epitome of class, elegance and perfect beauty...

OMG real models on a magazine cover!

Paulina will always be my favorite....but she didn't do a lot of runway, did she?

Did she not have a good walk?

Can't believe those nasty cunts Tom and Lorenzo are still around. Total wastes of space.

No darling r584, I was making REAL money and banging rock stars.

[quote]r581 Even Kate Moss worked a sexier angle than Linda--Kate may have been a waif, but she had a comfort with nudity that made up for that.

I think Moss really racked up fame when people in NYC started scrawling FEED ME on this poster ad of her looking emmaciated in a Calvin Klein bikini. The poster was plastered all around town on bus stops...so then the graffiti was all around town.

This brought her out of the mere fashion world, and into broader conversation.

She talks about it HERE:

R584, Paulina, in her prime, was more of an editorial & commercial model than a runway model. Back in the day, there was a clear distinction between editorial (fasion) models, commercial models, glamour models, and runway models. Runway modeling was low on the totem pole because a) it paid considerably less than the other types (even catalog modeling, and b) you didn't have to be pretty, just tall and lanky and able to wear the clothes well.

Around the 1990s is when the distinctions blurred, with curvy glamour models like Cindy and Naomi and Elle doing runway, editorial, commercial, glamour, swimsuit/lingerie modeling. That's why they were supermodels, they transcended all categories; they could do all.

[quote]Around the 1990s is when the distinctions blurred, with curvy glamour models like Cindy and Naomi and Elle doing runway, editorial, commercial, glamour, swimsuit/lingerie modeling.

Addendum: of course, there were models who were blurring the lines of distinction prior to the 1990s, but 1990s was the turning point where it became the norm to freely jump back and forth between runway, editorial, swimsuit, commercial, etc., rather as career stepping stones.

Yes....there have always been exceptions. Yours is a good analysis.

Looking at that picture of Moss in R588 she doesn’t even look that thin compared to today’s runway models. Is it just editorial that’s not supposed to be as thin?

Where did Helena Christensen fit in to the supermodel nexus? Haven’t seen her mentioned much here

She's been mentioned r593, by me and others, she was one of the greats too.

I thought the supermodel era would go on for years, but it came to an abrupt end.

Although I haven't been very interested in most models since then, I think Amber Valetta and Carolyn Murphy have "blank canvas" faces that can appear everyday All-American and upscale high fashion.

Christie with Liza, Michael & Whitney

Cindy Crawford just seems so "90s" to me. I had forgotten that she started blowing up in the 80s as a teen model.

Crawford’s wonky-eyed daughter is too skinny to be getting the modeling praise she gets...

Please welcome to the stage, a specific high-fashion feeling from 1991

R596, Is Whitney checking out Christie's boobs?