Linda Evangelista, Christy Turlington, Cindy Crawford, and Naomi Campbell proved they are still the queens of the runway when they attended a screening of their new Apple TV series, The Super Models, on Monday.
The four-part documentary, which aired in March 2023, charted the rise of four of the biggest supermodels of the ’90s who came to dominate the modeling world.
Heading out to the screening and Q&A at The West Hollywood EDITION, Naomi, 53, Cindy, 58, Christy, 55, and Linda, 58, gathered to discuss the phenomenon in depth.
The legendary models looked as glamorous as ever as they posed side by side before taking to the stage to answer questions.
Naomi looked chic in a sheer black shirt and matching skirt, with her dark locks in her signature straight style.
Cindy was also seen wearing an off-the-shoulder navy blue satin dress, strappy silver heels, and her auburn locks in luscious waves.
Linda also opted for a satin dress, wearing a bronze-colored top with a high neck and wide-leg pants.
Meanwhile, Christy smiled and kept her outfit simple, wearing a sleek black jacket with a sheer top underneath.
While the Apple TV+ series reveled in the exceptional beauty of women, it didn’t shy away from the uglier problems they faced, such as addiction, domestic abuse, and racial inequality.
As Naomi commented: “People feel that we don’t hurt, that we don’t cry, that we don’t get sad.” None of that is true.’
Of the four, the story of Naomi, from south London, is perhaps the most eventful.
Having been discovered at 15 while shopping in Covent Garden, she told how she worked secretly as a teenager while her mother Valerie remained oblivious.
However, it was not easy at all. The late ’80s and early ’90s were a period in which black models were still not given the opportunities as their white counterparts, and as Linda Evangelista explained, “Naomi, I thought, was more beautiful, had a much bigger body. swinger than me and struts better and I think, “Why don’t they hire her?”
She and Christy refused to take bookings unless they also hired Naomi, and as Naomi explained, “They stood by me and supported me and that’s what kept me going.”
But Naomi’s period in the spotlight was not without controversy. Already in the throes of a cocaine addiction when she was 20, she entered rehab.
The series also briefly addressed her anger issues (she was charged with assault in 2006 for hitting her housekeeper with a cell phone). “Addiction can cause such great fear and anxiety that I became very angry,” she explained.
The four women said they largely avoided the sexual abuse issues that have rocked the industry in recent years, but Linda married her agent Gérald Marie at age 22.
Although they divorced after six years, she was horrified when two years ago he faced accusations of sexual misconduct and rape (he denied them, and the criminal investigation was closed due to France’s statute of limitations).
She was crying and described how she felt when she heard the claims and revealed her abuse by him. “He knew he wasn’t supposed to touch my face,” she says. —Don’t touch the one who makes money, you know?
Of the four, Linda had more than her fair share of difficulties. She battled breast cancer and spoke on the series about the fat-freezing procedure which she claims left her ‘disfigured’ and depressed.
“I can’t please myself with these hard masses and bumps protruding from my body,” he said.
The quartet’s dominance had already begun to wane in the mid-’90s when scandalous glamor went out of style and grunge entered. As Linda said in the series: “When this all stops, what else do you do?”
Cindy managed to become a brand, launching a makeup line and appearing in Playboy.
The four of them continued modeling and after retiring from public life after her cosmetic procedure, Linda returned to the catwalks last year.
Martin Brading, a photographer who photographed Naomi when she was starting, said that she “was very cooperative in those days”, suggesting that she might not have been so cooperative later.
And as Linda explains, back then there were tricks to capturing the perfect image on film, like securing the end of a skirt with a fishing line or cinching a model’s waist by slipping a Coca-Cola can behind her belt.
“Nowadays all the magic happens in post-production,” he said. “In the ’80s and early ’90s, all the magic happened exactly the moment you heard a ‘click.'”
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