WHET Supermodels?

Ypir was great in George Michael's Freedom video.

[quote] Don't wake up for less than 25 thousand! ROFL! Wish I could have said that!!!

OP, Evangelista also wishes she said that. Because she didn't. The figure she quoted was less than 25k:

[quote] Linda: "We have this expression, Christy and I: We don't wake up for less than $10,000 a day."

Though her quote is from 1990, so with inflation that might be over $19k in today's money.

le sigh

You're new here but you've already worked out it's "WHET"? Congrats.

my favorite supermodel, Garrett Neff:

Why couldn't I find anything on Mia Girlingi?

r6 Why would you want to find anything on Mia Girlingi?

Only the insiders knew Mia but she was a supermodel, the bestest. I love the supermodels!

I wanted to read more about the supermodel who got her face slashed, was hit by a bus, and got AIDS.

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If only we could talk about them, even every once and awhile. But they never seem to come up on DL. I thought this was a gay site.

Mia Girlingi? You don’t mean Gia Carangi, do you, OP?

Ah, yes! The age of supermodels. Dogs lived with cats. Hot and cold running champagne out of the taps.

Yeah, a few people got blinded by the hot champagne in their eyes. And those catdogs were a crossbreeding nightmare, but still. Who didn't love it when you got assaulted with Naomi's cell phone?

And who doesn't have burn scars from when a supermodel nodded off and accidentally burned you with a cigarette? I got 45 from Kate Moss alone. Heroine chic.

And I still treasure the first dental implant I got after bulimia started ruining my teeth.

Christy Turlington was the most beautiful of the lot IMHO. Naomi was the most ferocious and fun to watch. Don't know if she is considered one of the true supermodels, but I loved Yasmeen Gauri too. All of them were uniquely beautiful women and so much more appealing than the nameless girls of today.

Not the same thread but a reference one!

Re-post of a music video OP doesn't know he/she desperately needs.

I think OP meant Gia Carangi . If so, he is an idiot. Every gay man should know who Gia Carangi is - first lesbian supermodel, one of first women to die of AIDS, fierce bitch, epitome of late 70s sexually intense fabulousness. As importantly, her life story was made into an iconic movie form late 90s which was Angelina Jolie’s break out role and remains one of the most fabulous movies about the late 70s-80s transition in existence.

Nothing is really head and shoulders above the rest in this disposable social media culture of ours.

I mean, Trisha Peytaa is a “star,” for fucks sake. End of conversation.

It's funny you bring this up. I was watching all of Alexander McQueen's old shows before he passed and found this documentary of the real supermodels of the 90's. It was pretty cool to see a young Christy Turlington, Naomi Campbell, and a very very young Kate Moss (who was smoking & drinking at what looked like 14 or 15 years old). Back in the early days they all seemed to get along and it was fun to see that.

Gia or maybe Janice were the first supermodels before they were a thing. The supermodels of the 90's were household names - remember the Fashion Cafe? Most of the celeb spawned models today don't have the proportions to actually be a real model w/ maybe the exception of Kendell Jenner.

The supermodel craze was not a good thing. It heralded the worship of superficial beauty over substance. Yes, pretty Poole we’re always valued. But then pretty people became some of the most valuable beings on the planet. Which I think lead to the spawning of the Kardashian Kulture. The pretty faces of the 90s replaced the cool substance of the 70s with the horror years of the 80s being the turning point when substance and art were overthrown by artifice, capitalism and celebrity worship.

^ pretty “people”

What I like about 90's supermodels is that they all seemed to come from these pretty humble beginnings and at least in the early years, they seemed very polite and business like. Kate seemed like such a fun chav that somehow fell into it.

There are plenty of great new models today, despite the dumb stereotype of there not being any (and I don't mean Kendall). Many of the 90s supermodels are still working.

What models are household names that don't have celeb parents meaning they built their careers from the ground up? Anna Wintour killed the supermodels by replacing them with celebs.

The supermodels were invented by Gianni Versace. The roots of the genealogy are the Peter Lindbergh editorial in British Vogue, which was seen by George Michael, who put Cindy, Christy, Linda, Naomi and Tatiana in his Freedom 90 video, which inspired Gianni Versace to have Cindy, Christy, Linda and Naomi walk down his runway at the Versace FW91 show in Milan, lip-synching Freedom 90.

Naomi Campbell unimpressed Kayne and Kim Vouge cover

You're right r25, and what Anna Wintour started has been made even worse by social media, especially Instagram, and the rise of celebrity culture. That makes it hard to develop new models from the ground up today, but even if they're not household names there are still plenty of great young models.

R27, Naomi is so right, and she often comments on the rise of celeb models and celebs as models, and supports lots of the younger models.

New version of George Michael's Freedom video, with some of today's "supers".

Loved that video, r26. They were all fabulous, and I was surprised by how gorgeous Carla Bruni was and what a hot piece Kate Moss was, but for sheer, unadulterated modeliciouseness, Linda E takes the cake...

HA - I remember my mother and aunt drooling over George Michael in the I Want Your Sex video when they thought he was straight. I wasn't allowed to watch the video at the time. Were the supermodels in that one also?

[quote]Were the supermodels in that one also?

it featured his 'girlfriend' Kathy Jeung

(30) Blasphemy! Skanks! Get your own song and more than a $1.39 budget for your video.

Today's models are all tacky offspring of reality celebs. It's just a gross moment in history. Fuck Kris Jenner, the mother whore of Babylon.

That’s it...a gross moment in history....Oy...

The fashion industry ended the supermodel era when they realized that the models got more attention than the clothes they were supposed to sell.

Well, this new crop of nespotic wanna be telebrities won’t solve that...

Bella and Kendal are basic bitches whose success is due exclusively to nepotism, they would have never had a chance back in the glorious 90's.

It used to be supermodels advertised clothes, perfume, etc. Now it's actresses - they ate the supermodels' jobs.

Twiggy was one of the first supermodels,and it turned out she could sing, dance and act in the movie "The Boyfriend" and on Broadway in "My One and Only". Not that many of the others could do that, but lately people who try to shock like the Kardashians, who aren't nearly as beautiful, have found a way to monetize this kind of being a celebrity of being famous for being famous.

Shana Zadrick was underrated. She was Cindy meets Linda, Raquel Welch meets Sophia Loren, with a little of my favorite drag queen, the late Tandi Andrews, thrown in.

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To be honest r34, it's really a Vogue video editorial, the focus of which is actually the clothes, that being the point of modelling. Some of those girls are actually great though.

The SS19 Moschino show was pretty great and has some of the "new" top models (just ignore Bella and Gigi and the awful Kendall). I don't think we'll ever have supermodels again though, they were of their moment.

R26 the 90s supermodels are gorgeously stunning. Too bad there won’t be another generation of supermodels that can match their beauty and culture impacts. They were not stars, they were megastars goddesses of fashion world. Naomi has the best catwalking. Cindy was the prettiest one. Claudia had the best bod.

You have to watch to the end of this to find out WHET to the supermodels - and appreciate some of the newer ones! Versace SS18. (Again, apologies for Bella, Gigi and Kendall).

HI dolls. Mia Girlingi was a joke. What's happened to the DL critical intelligence!

Anyway I was trolling you Supermodel Stans. Sure, I love them, too. Carry on, at least you're having fun.

I lovw that you mentioned Fashion Cafe R20! Her is Blair’s review, I love it.

Thierry Mugler Spring 'n' Summer Pret à Porter 1991, hennies

Didn't Thierry Mugler have loads of plastic surgery to turn himself into a lizard, r49?

Those versace dresses at r26 were pretty average...

R19 So amazing to see Jaye Davidson ( The Crying Game; Stargate) preparing food for the Girls at Carla Bruni’s appartement in Paris!! At 1:02’30’’

R26 Naomi always looked like a no neck linebacker next to Linda, Cindy and Christy.

I just read up about the Fashion Cafe. My word! That whole sleazy business side is one thing that thankfully doesn't prey on models today. One of the Buti brothers was married to the Czech model Daniela Pestova. The Slav models from behind the Iron Curtain were the next phenomenon in modelling, after the initial wave of the original supers.

Eva Herzigova was a commercial model rather than a high fashion one, but this ad is a classic.

But the models who wore them were fabulous, r52...

Fashion was a lot more fun in general, of course.

Cindy Crawford's latest ig post, good old days.

R47 most of those girls looked like they were playing dress up. Cindy's daughter, Kaia is a lesser version of her mother and looks like a little girl. Sad models and clothes.

Wundy Gurl will always be my favorite.

"Hi! Girlz Data!"

I actually love the Versace SS18 show, r59 and Cindy's daughter was a little girl, pretty much, she'd just turned 16. As a tribute to Gianni, it was awesome. It also had some older 2000s models. I'm a lesbian, and that show is very sexy for me.

The models today are told to look serious, so as not to distract from the clothes.

I'm like amazing.

Yeah r59, contrast Kaia (and her fellow models) at r47 to her mom (and her fellow models) at r26. This new crop is almost laughable in comparison...