Models no one remembers but you

Jayne Modean

Lucy Angle

Rosemary McGrotha - those eyes!

Georgina Grenville

Jesus Christ, with names like those no wonder they’re forgotten! Were they models or nursing home residents?

Iman

Iman isn't forgotten

There seems to be a renewed interest in Pola, who was a 1970s contemporary of Jessica Lange’s in NYC.

She killed herself after just working for a year or two.

Fashion illustrator Antonio Lopez with some of his favorite models, including Pola and Jessica Lange.

Karen Graham - face of Estée Lauder in the 70s

Karen Graham is still hugely famous. No one has forgotten her.

Tereza Maxova

Karen Graham? I remember. She is one of the all time greats!

Remember Shelly Smith? She was on games shows, the critically loved "The Associates" and a Murdre She Wrote. I am guessing, probably a Love Boat too.

Esther de Jong

Elsa Benitez

Yasmin Ghauri

For the boys, Jeff Aquilon.

YSL muse Mounia

Shaun Casey briefly took over for Karen Graham at Estee Lauder.

Let’s try this again, Mounia

Melanija Knavs

Remember Jose' the lovely Obsession model? She did a lot of runway .

Mounia > Melania

Jill Kennington

Colleen Corby

R11. Oh good. She's probably not a household name in the UK. Such a perfect face.

Dorothy McGowan

R21 'Oh, the smell of it'

Nadège du Bospertus . She is a fabulous French model of Greek and Black descent. She was the lead giirl in Bryan Ferry's Limbo video. She ended up married to an Italian and doing Italy's Next Top Model.

80s model Renée Simonsen, married Duran Duran’s John Taylor.

Tania Mallet, impossibly gorgeous cousin of Helen Mirren

I remember Jeff Aquilon, R16. I had an endless crush on him. And also Rob Yoh.

R29 Taylor never married Simonson.

Dalma. There was a time when you couldn't watch a runway show without her being in it. One of the best runway models due to her figure.

She ruled the runway for a long time, but wasn't on covers that much.

Gail Elliott. She was everywhere at one time - although I could never understand why. She had an 'interesting' face, but no extreme beauty.

Shana Zadrick. I much preferred her over Claudia Schiffer, in the 90s.

Carre Otis

R24 She was a relative plain jane. She didn't hve the sexual sizzle like Cindy and Naomi that made straight men hard.

R36 Her association with Mickey Rourke was no big deal as he became forgotten at the time.

Loved Shana, so exotic looking. Also a fan of Czech model Tereza Maxova

Gurmit Kaur

I meant R34 not R24.

Teri Toye

Jan Strimple

Bitten Knudsen

Sue Francis Pai aka Suzee Pai

Penelope Tree

R1, there was another Seventeen Magazine model in the Jayne Modean era whom I liked the look of even more. For the life of me, though, I can't remember her name, and I've tried looking her up (searches on "Seventeen magazine model 1980s" and so forth). I remember she was also blonde, a little cooler and less "pretty" than Jayne--a more sporty type. I think she may have had a little overbite and a distinctive chin. Do you have any idea who I mean? No idea how to find her.

Ines De La Fressange.

Shelley Hack

No one remembers OP's model because she U-G-U-L-A-Y

Clotilde

Oh my gosh, I DID forget about Clotilde. I remember reading that she basically had one signature look (as in the Ralph Lauren ad at the top of that page) and wasn't recognizable to most people otherwise.

Cindy Harrell was all over the place in the 70s. Now I can barely find her pictures on the internet. Looks like she has a daughter in the biz, though - of course.

Dog-face Gia Garagemi.

R53 Gia is most remembered because of her wild ways and her drug taking. That Angelina Jolie Gia film made her a model martyr of sorts.

Another for Shana Zadrick.

Some of these (former) models are still out and about on the fashion circuit, going to shows and appearing at events and the suchlike.

Rachel Williams

R55 I loved Shana Zadrick. She had a brief 2-3 month period during which she was Steven Meisel's primary muse and then fell off the face of the earth. This was the first issue of Italian Vogue I bought and I still have it preserved in mint condition. (I know...MARY!)

R35 Zadrick is one of the only women I've ever been attracted to.

Nastasia Urbano

Shana had an ethnic look that was a cross between Linda Evangelista,Cindy Crawford(who looked Italian or Greek but wasn't) and Raquel Welch.

Karen Mulder

R622 Poor Karen Mulder.

Marpessa... top model in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Had a great presence on the runway.

Roberta Chirko

Angie Everhart

Laetitia Casta

Audrey Marnay

Kelly Emberg

Ariane Koizumi

Kirsten Owen

Kersti Bowser

R50, I loved Clotilde! She was in “Trading Places”! She had a clothing boutique for a while in some little Westchester hamlet, and married a doctor and I think doesn’t talk to one of her daughters. Her real name is Kristin Holby/Kristin Darnell.

Colette Pechekhonova

Peggy Dillard

Kylie Bax

Trish Goff

Me too r14!

Rosie Vela. She was genuinely pretty (a lot of models aren't) and had a mane of curly, strawberry blonde hair. She had aspirations as a musician and put out an album (with contributions from Donald Becker and Walter Fagan, of Steely Dan). It got good reviews but went nowhere. There was a bizarre GoFundMe account in recent years entitled "Rosie Vela Needs Our Urgent Help!" It told some crazy story about how she was severely mentally ill and very sick and needed money...just crazy stuff. I think it was a scam; the account isn't accepting money anymore. Anyway, I have no idea what happened to Rosie Vela. It might be interesting to find out.

Gail O’Neill

Hannelore Knuts

German model turned disco diva Madleen Kane. Some of us eldergays may remember her from our long gone disco days, her music was quite popular in LA’s discos of the time.

R82 Madleen is still alive and well...on Instagram!

R79 - Rosie was one of the top Ford models of the 70's and early 80's. I remember her album - she had a small hit single played on Vh1 - Magic Smile. I still hum it every once and awhile.

She's dating/fucking someone in ELO. She's the backup singer in their tours now. Doubt she's doing too much now - she's 67.

Pretty much all these models are alive and well and on IG r83, the ones who aren't don't want to be remembered that often.

Tatjana Patitz

Madleen Kane, a German model turn disco diva. She had some relative success with a couple of great disco tunes. At that time I lived in LA and all the gay bars played her music. However, she is almost completely forgotten today.

On further googling, I found out that she wrote a autobiographical book called “Rough Diamond (A Memoir)”.

Madleen Kane - Sorry for the double posts, it simply didn’t show the first time.

Sunny Harnett

Madleen Kane is Swedish, not German.

And I had no idea she sang "Forbidden Love" - which was before my time, but a memorable hit to this day.

Tula

Leilani Bishop

The gorgeous Helen Williams

Bridget Hall

R89 Sunny Harnett was a major model who did a lot of work with Avedon. I have this great book called, “Avedon, Photographs, 1944 to 1977” and Sunny is all over it. BTW, this book is a must for fashion photography fans.

Toukie Smith.

Billie Blair

Norma Jean Darden

Veronica Webb

Shana Zadrick had a bit of a drag queen look, in the best possible way.

Ana Beatriz Barros

Chandra North

Maria McDonald. She later acted in Miami Vice and on the soap opera One Life to Live.

[quote]R95 Sunny Harnett was a major model who did a lot of work with Avedon. I have this great book called, “Avedon, Photographs, 1944 to 1977” and Sunny is all over it.

Sadly, she died after a fire swept through the mental institution in which she was housed! Kind of like Zelda Fitzgerald : (

My Ivanka was considered a supermodel in her days.

My God, her original face is ugly.

.. in her day.

Nena von Schlebrügge

Honor Fraser

R108 - wow, her daughter really looks a lot like her in that photo.

Esther Canadas

I loved Karen Mulder she was gorgeous. I mean she was a 2nd tier super model. I think a lot of people remember her.

R112 - yeah, people remember her. And Tatiana Patitz.

Funny how most of these models were from the 70's, 80's and early 90's. Either that shows our demographic, or it goes to show how much modeling has fallen off and replaced with celebrities.

For the life of me, I do not get the interest in those Hadid girls. Not attractive at all, and second-tier celebrities.

The late 80's and early 90's were when Supermodels ruled the world. We need to return to that era. There was real glamour!!

Big haired 80's model Lisa Berkley was everywhere for a while.

Cher's mother Georgia Holt, wore the burlap on I love Lucy.

Gitta Schilling

She never made any movies, so she’s not as talked about as most, but the Finnish-Canadian model Kecia Nyman was a big deal in the 1960s. Looking at the cover girls from that era, I really like her face.

Leilani Bishop, again (my demographic is really showing now).

Leilani Bishop has a line of all-natural fragrances, I've bought some of her stuff. She still looks good.

I think everyone remembers Penelope Tree.

If you’re not going to post a picture please don’t bother posting lazy asses.

Model lazy asses can be EQUALLY photogenic (in their youth), even without a pic to prove it here!

[bold]#LeaveUnpicturedLazyAssModelsAlone

Cover Girl model Lucy Gordon, who did some acting as well, was a sad case because she committed suicide

wow that photo of Ivanka. She already had frown lines at 17! Must have been from shoving her dad's oversized mushroom head into her mouth on the reg.

Daul Kim

Don't forget about former supermodel Melania Knauss!

NO ONE sold classy[italic] haute couture[/italic] looks like Melania!

Joel Fumero.

He played a large role in my sexual awakening.

Maybe I had the name wrong and it was David Fumero.

The guy I’m thinking of was with Boss Hugo in the mid-90s.

Christine Bergstrom the blonde and Laurence Treil standing next to her.

Google isn’t helping. It’s telling me there is a David Fumero born in 1972. He was a marine and apparently has a younger brother Joel who started a TV career in the late 90s. The book I remember was a nicely bound hardcover catalog (half the size of A4/8.5” x 11”) featuring one-to-two page colour and B&W photo collections of about 50 male supermodels, called something like “The Boss Hugo Guide to Male Supermodels.” I bought the book in 1996 (I think). It was possibly published that year or a year or two before.

Marcus Schenkenberg, Ty Beckford, and Simon Rex (another fave of mine) were all featured. I’m probably thinking of Joel Fumero who possibly had the modelling career and then tried to get into acting.

But then there is another Joel Fumero on IG who looks similar to older Joel, but is in his 20s for sure. Maybe it’s his son or nephew?

David Fumero is a tv actor who was once an in-demand fashion model, primarily in Jean-Baptiste Mondino's campaigns for Jean-Paul Gaultier

Thanks for that R135. I believe that (Iconic) photo may be included in the book but under another model. I could be easily wrong and it just didn’t register with me at the time (despite being pretty well known). The photos I recall of the model in question were:

A) B&W photo of said model sitting on the shoulders of another model who was standing in the ocean. Both are wearing board shorts.

B) said model in B&W photo wearing black Speedos and a hat (maybe backwards or a beret) while sitting down. He also obviously has eye-liner on.

There was possibly another photo of him. Maybe those were the only two.

I think Bruce Weber took the lion’s share of photos featured in this book.

Anyway, thank you for allowing me to indulge.

*i mistakenly wrote the book was hardcover. It was soft cover, but an upgrade from magazine style (but the book made me hard har har).

Jason Shaw

R118 Wow, I never heard of Gita Schilling before. She's extraordinary. So beautiful. She reminds me of Capucine in some shots.

R136, Joel on top, David on the bottom

R136, cover

R139 yasssssssss! Thank you. That’s one of the photos, Photo A to be precise. I think it was filed in the Joel section of the book along with the other one I described.

I was too naive/prudish to hunt down actual porn (as well, the Internet was pretty basic atp and just for email as far as I was concerned), so this was my substitute!

R140 thank you for that as well!

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reading skills.

R84 She dated ELO frontman Jeff Lynne starting in 1991 until around 2005. Apparently, it ended badly, and she went off the deep end.

Inès de La Fressange? Karen Mulder!? Laetitia Casta!!?? Nadège!!!! Do you think the rest of us were living under a rock in flyoverstan?

[quote]r144 Do you think the rest of us were living under a rock in flyoverstan?

The IDEA!

[italic]I want to speak to a manager!

There was one named Carla Bruni - she was real insider but I remember her.

Another one, just for the cognoscenti - completely forgotten Nadja Auermann.

Sunny Griffin

Lol, Carla and Nadia just for the cognoscenti- they're practically household names.

I might have masturbated to Simon Rex once or twice.

Carla Bruni was the 1st lady of France. She's not forgotten.

The late Sterling St. Jacques

R143 Was that when what’s her face, Kiefer Sutherland’s ex-wife, Camila Kath, slid in?

R150 Me too. Hundreds of times. Especially when I got my hands on the Red Hot & Solo or whatever it was called (the one where he fixes the bike before taking a break).

Good times. I’d still do him (were I so lucky). I’d probably still do him when he’s 80.

Yasmeen Ghauri

Everyone remembers Yasmeen, she was an international supermodel. Why not just put up a picture of Linda Evangelista or Cindy Crawford?

Carla Bruni was kind of basic. Not sure why she was so successful. The models of the late 80's and early 90's before the waif look were really beautiful and had great bodies. Then the tide turned for some reason. I guess Kate Moss happened.

Carla Bruni married Nicolas Sarkozy — then president of France. She's a tour guide in a Woody Allen film filmed in France. And she released an album not too long ago.

The ubiquitous Seventeen model, Tara Fitzpatrick.

Oh for crissakes are you all sarcasm free zones? I posted Carla Bruni, one of the most famous models in the world, having been Premiere Dame to boot, to prove the point that some people in this thread really do believe that everyone else grew up in model-free caves in Arkansas.

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It's fun to Google recent pics of these people and see which ones are aging well and which ones aren't

I got it, R160. I just didn't have the energy to correct the dum-dums.

Kim Williams

Clotilde appeared in the recent Ralph lauren documentary that was on HBO. Has not aged well, guess she never wore sunscreen.

Penelope Tree was amazingly famous for a brief period and then people came to their senses and realized she was a gnome so she has labored in obscurity ever since.

Jeny Haworth

Me? I have no clue who most of these are and I'm not young.

I remember OP'S model,she reminds me of Kylie Minogue.

Lise Ryall.

Bella Hadid basically bought Carla Bruni's face.

I wonder how many of the aforementioned have been metoo'd.

^ Wasn't Katen Mulder supposed to have been raped by some big shot?

Sophia Loren lookalike Line Gost, hot for a minute in 2007

He's famous as an actor now, but everyone seems to have forgotten that Norman Reedus was a model. My sister had a great collage covering her bedroom wall with pics from magazines (I wanted one too, but I was an insecure closeted gayling), which included one of his Prada ads. It was weird to me when he showed up as white trash on The Walking Dead.

I can't believe nobody mentioned Mark Vanderloo. Are you even gay men?

Sadly, he aged badly.

David Fumero was on the soap opera One Life to Live for over a decade. He married a costar who is now on Brooklyn 99.

r171 Yes, by multiple people allegedly. Very scary and sad.

r173 and he procreated with Helena Christensen

r174 one of the biggest names in male modelling, not forgotten!

When I saw the OP's pic my first thought was when did Reese Witerspoon start using drugs?

How are we supposed to know what other people remember, OP?

Well honey R180 if you have no knowledge of models you can't very well play this game. Since you probably only remember 10 or so. But the twat who mentions Mark Vanderloo, as if 10 million gays, and 10 million women, don't remember him, oh for crissakes.

R180 Good point. Does anyone remember Linda E's 'identity'?

And what makes a woman unforgettable?

Amy Wesson

Jenny Brunt

The movie Zoolander was inspired by Mark Vanderloo for X sake.

Mark Vanderloo was in an ad in the T Magazine of the NY Times. He looks great albeit a little older.

Mark:

Again:

I had to think long and hard whether to share this name with you. Like others here, It's fun that I'm the only one who remembers so many models. I feel like an Irish Jesuit, saving civilization and model names for future generations during these dark ages. Lauren Hutton.

I think he looks good

Does anyone else remember Maggie Rizer? She was everywhere in the early-2000s and then disappeared. A lot of my NYC friends met her because she was heavily involved in HIV/AIDS and gay rights activism because her dad was gay and died from complications from the virus. I Googled her a few years ago and learned that her stepdad stole all her money and spent it on lottery tickets!

Amanda Moore is another model that was everywhere in the 2000s, but nobody seems to talk about when models of that era are discussed. She went to my high school (she graduated the spring before I enrolled there), but got no attention locally despite it being a small town. I suspect it's because she was an out and proud lesbian, and people there are homophobic, and she wasn't from one of the families that ruled the town for generations.

How about models people do remember? Why would we remember models? What is it they do that is so special OP? Model?

Dumb questions. Did you type ANYTHING just to participate, R194?

A lot of these older models have Instagram accounts so they can easily be looked up if they still want to be known. One who doesn't have an account is Yasmeen Ghauri. There is a fan account for her though that has over 25,000 followers, which is shit loads for the fan account of someone who was semi-famous over 30 years ago and is now keeping out of the limelight.

R194, you must be new here

I'm surprised no one's mentioned Canadian lesbian model Eve Salvail, especially since she had such a striking look, although that would make her a model no one remembers but me (I don't personally remember her because I was a baby). She's still active, every now and then.

Besides the Brazilian babes of Victoria's Secret, most of the top models of the 2000s are forgotten, even though the high fashion girls were far more interesting to look at, at least to a gay man like me.

Audrey Marnay was one of my faves.

R193 Didn’t know Amanda Moore, thanks, she's spectacular.

I know someone who was at school with Yasmin Le Bon back in the day - always beautiful and nice too apparently.

R198 In Model: The Ugly Business of Beautiful Women (published in 1995), Michael Gross declared her and Bridget Hall (who was also mentioned above) as "the models of the moment."

The great Ypir

Renauld White

Sheila Johnson and Charles Williamson

Rashid Silvera

Charles Williamson was very handsome

Norbert Tomas

Norbert. Ugly name for a gorgeous guy.

Speaking of lesbians... Jenny Shimizu. I believe she later became a cop.

Thanks r201, I've actually had my eye on that book, should definitely get round to reading it.

Alek Wek

^^ far from forgotten!

R210 It's juicy. I highly recommend. If DL ever started a book club, it would be before for it.

Angela Lindvall

Esme Marshall

Barbara Minty. She was starting to become popular, married Steve McQueen the same year he died, then just disappeared.

Lisa Taylor — considering how big a deal she was in her day (late 70s), shes all but forgotten, especially compared to her contemporaries.

That’s not to say some people here don’t remember her, but very few who didn’t live thru that era have any idea who she is.

^^ I was a baby when the 70's ended, but I knew very well who Lisa Taylor was through my interest in fashion and photography. She was in that super iconic Helmut Newton photo. Plus Calvin Klein used her in the 90's.

Maybe we should just have a poll with a list of 150 names asking which ones do you remember? That way, we can know once and for all who were the supermodels that only you remembered.

That might shut up the thread context Nazis lol.

R219 No. The concept is simpler than that......

Nadia Auermann.

R219 I can only speak from my experience of course, but we’re about the same age, and almost none of my contemporaries (and I work in public relations and most do something similar or just closely follow celebrities/models more generally) have ever heard of her. I do remember the Calvin thing from the early 90s and I did read the Model book cover to cover, in which she’s featured very heavily. But she really did all but disappear right after her heyday.

R220 I was joking ...

Of course it's cold. Its German.

Mark Vannderloo is still very much alive and kicking and still doing campaigns.

In about 20 years time, which of today's models will still be remembered? Here's Imaan Hammam at the Versace show last Friday (unforunately the Versace collection is transitioning into Michael Kors).

More Imaam.

Vittoria Ceretti backstage at Versace

Vittoria as the Chanel bride.

Unfortunately today we are also getting complete horrors dumped on us in the name of "diversity", even though they don't look good, can't pose because their mobility is limited, make the runway incoherent and don't highlight the look or details of the clothes. Paloma Elsesser is being heavily pushed and is apparently now a superstar supermodel, even though she came out of nowhere and at a rather advanced age for a new model, without having gone through the professional career build up other models go through. In other words, she was handpicked because she's fat and Latina, so two woke "diversity" birds were killed with one stone (even though modelling is full of real Latinas).

She's not even a good walker and she knows it too, hence why she only posted the slo-mo version of her on the runway.

Unfortunately today we are also getting complete horrors dumped on us in the name of "diversity", even though they don't look good, can't pose because their mobility is limited, make the runway incoherent and don't highlight the look or details of the clothes. Paloma Elsesser is being heavily pushed and is apparently now a superstar supermodel, even though she came out of nowhere and at a rather advanced age for a new model, without having gone through the professional career build up other models go through. In other words, she was handpicked because she's fat and Latina, so two woke "diversity" birds were killed with one stone (even though modelling is full of real Latinas).

She's not even a good walker and she knows it too, hence why she only posted the slo-mo version of her on the runway.

Sorry, Paloma is part African American and part-Latina. Even more woke points.

Tanga Moreau. I loved her late-90s Ralph Lauren ads.

Tanga Moreau

Bridget Hall is an interesting case. She was the it model and scored major contracts with Ralph Lauren and Maybelline while still in high school, in the 90s. Lauren supposedly regretted the long-term contract when her career failed to take off.

Then in 2000, she was the high fashion it model for a moment, but, again never really took off.

I remember that she also seemed to have gotten a nose-job somewhere along the line. And looked slightly off as a result.

Bridget Hall was such a strange case. Such fanfare and quick exposure then POOF she was gone.

R209 Jenny Shimizu found modeling tough and admitted she couldn't even learn to walk in high heels. I think she was a motorcycle mechanic before she was a model. Then a pass around girlfriend for those who wanted a lesbian best friend. I felt bad for her, this was the beginning of the push for diversities sake. Yet, they tried to change her.

R231 OMG, that's a model?! She looks like my auntie setting off down the Mile End Road for her okra.

Irina Pantaeva

R237 And it happened TWICE.

Wasn’t Vittoria Ceretti the rumoured love of Kaia Gerber? Then all photos of them together disappeared once her PR Cindy-directed campaign took off?

Bridget Hall was really gorgeous..wow!

It must have been the nose job that ruined Hall.

Here she is after the nose job.

Ultra-religous, redneckian model Lucas Babin who's today married with kids and a practicing lawyer. His dad is a Trumpian US Representative.

Another one before.

Yes, r242. You can still find some if you dig around, but otherwise you would never know if you only discovered them now just how "close" they used to be.

Susan Eldridge. I think she was known for fucking Terry Richardson at the time.

R239, now no one can accuse models today of being anorexic!

R246 he is so hot and that outfit is so cool.

Her nose looks the same to me

She had the nose job very young. It will sometimes change and shrink/cave-in over the years. She lost her career as she had serious substance abuse issues supposedly and people didn’t want to deal with her anymore. Also I heard that her mother was extremely controlling and a stage parent. Who knows how much of this is true but these are the rumors that I’ve heard over the years. She lives in the Hamptons now so can’t be doing too badly.

Leonardo DiCaprio dated Bridget Hall when she was underage.

R77 She's a real estate agent now. Also, she's aged incredibly well.

Amber Smith. She apparently destroyed her career by being a stalker.

Tanga Moreau. I loved her haunted look.

I've followed Nadja Auermann on Instagram for a few months and I think this is either the first or second time she's posted something in that time. She reposted some stories by her agency of her and her rather attractive daughter at some Armani event in Paris. Although I thought it was a Harpers Bazaar event. Nadja is looking good!