Follow me on Instagram: supermodelsfanatic Having a Supermodel on a Fashion Shows can sell any Designer's Collection.. Which is why a Designer is willing to pay the big $$$$.
jen W If I was rich, then I would not marry an ugly woman who had more money than me. Yet thats what models like Stephanie Seymour did. They are rich yet they marry old ugly guys who are richer. Some people are just greedy.
They deserved more money than what they got.They were very special models.They did the job better than any model ever will.Even my father knew their names.They became so popular and so demanding all over in the world that they helped many,many companies to be where they are today.And they put fashion on the Map that became more important than Hollywood.Bravo!!!
Say..."Amen!" These companies and fashion houses have made hundreds of billions of dollars..over the decades. The models should have been getting more..much more.
they were an important part of history, they even had influence in music, remember many of those girls were dating rock and pop band’s singers, and also hollywood. They made fashion even more important than Hollywood by that time, they were featured in many movies, music videos, etc. It’s impossible not remembering that Pepsi ad with Cindy Crawford, or George Michaels Freedom 90s and not to think about Linda Evangelista, or seeing a Guess Jeans ad without remembering the first Guess Girl Claudia Schiffer. I think they were like pop icons, because of their influence on pop culture.
Many years ago, aft Madonna came out with the song, 'Vogue,' a reporter asked Linda Evangelista to "strike a pose!" She had a smirk on her face and replied : "we don't 'Vogue.' We are vogue." Perfect response because her special group of models ate, slept, breathed and therefore, oozed fashion. Brought it to a whole level of iconography. Decades later, people are still trying to emulate them.
Linda Evangelista and Madonna were the queens of their own respective realm, and Linda is often called the Madonna of modeling for reinventing her looks so many times. Both of them Italian blood queens. Also, there is a short clip on RU-vid where Madonna pretends to be Linda Evangelista, telling no one to touch her. XD
@@lissandrafreljord7913 I see no similarities. Linda Evangelista is in her own class, establishing herself firmly as one of the founders of Supermodel ideology /conceptual integrity!
@@petitor_veritatis1936they are both ITALIANS by ethnicity and they both changed their look. That's the similarities! Nobody is claiming that Madonna is a supermodel or that Linda Evangelista is the Queen of pop.
Thiago you said it best; I have ALWAYS said...without the Lindas, the Naomis, the Cindys, the Claudias, the Christys, the Kates....those designers would have NEVER been as successful as they were. The Supermodel era of that time will NEVER happen again; no other group of models had greater access to the top designers as they did. It simply is legendary because it was a specific time in fashion history that can never be repeated. Those ladies were worth EVERY.SINGLE.MILLION that they earned. Enough said.
John Edwards you cant quite Compare the supposed “supermodels” of today to these 90s Glamazons. They are made and Manufactured. These women were incorporations unto themselves in the 90s & changed the industry. There will never be a replica. These girls today look like they’re all constipated & pissed of, almost like they mistakenly trusted that fart & crapped their pants & they’re pissed off, scrambling to find the nearest bathroom with those frenzied walks of theirs. They are so skinny you can’t even really see the clothes, the fabrics, cuts, how they flow & drape, because they hang off their bodies. The walks are outright distracting & so put on. They look hollow with void personalities, No swag in their step or light in their eyes. Sure, they’re pretty enough for now but they aren’t timeless beauties or classic beauties we’ll remember for a lifetime. They’re like modern day Paris Hilton’s. I am sorry but I find them all to be a big yawn ZZZZ
John Edwards Thank you. I used to collect vintage fashion magazines & designer books and am aware there is more to the fashion industry than the supermodels of the 90s. I appreciate your views. I am simply just not into the models today. I do not find them captivating, but wish them all the best. I’m sure like everybody else they just want to do a good job and create a legacy for themselves.
John Edwards you’re right, it is my opinion. In my opinion, and not regarding the wealth/earning factor, the supermodels of the 90s were the most memorable and glamorous. IN MY OPINION,
I totally agree with that! And it seems to me that Yasmeen is not mentioned “ more” than any other super model of the time. Let’s give Yasmeen her due and a hardy round of applause for her unforgettable moments on the runway and the amazing photos of her! Viva Yasmeen!
out of all these supermodels, only Naomi who still runs the catwalk and she doesn't want to be called a "supermodel" she wants to be called a "working model"
Thank you for this. Calvin is a hypocrite. If models weren't the point as well his company wouldn't of been where he is today. Having all the top models in his shows made his mark in the 90s. Now people only buy his bags! What a bigot
You guys are right about Calvin Klein. His company took off when he used then child model/actress Brooke Shields in his jeans commercials. He was a nobody prior to that.
back i the early 90's my mother, from a very remote village in Indonesia, knew Claudia Schiffer and Naomi. The time where there is no internet and fashion magazine still hard to afford. now, in the internet era, a lot of people still couldnt even name those untalented instagram models.
In India too in the 80s & 90s they would regularly publish pictures of Claudia Schiffer, Naomi Campbell & Cindy Crawford in the national newspapers. But I am so angry they never published Yasmeen Ghauri so we Indian girls never knew growing up that there was a supermodel who looked like us. We thought we weren’t beautiful.
@@globalcitizenn first of all, India glorifies whiter skin, thats why skin whitener are sold everywhere. i think thats the main reason why exotic skin models rarely show up in India at that time (and probably up until today) because they dont fit the advertising and marketing purposes. Just take a look at Bollywood celebrities for example, almost all the beautiful male and female actors are white skinned. Someone like Yasmeen Ghauri would not fit in with what Indian people want.
They weren't just models, they were runways' biggest superstars, too bad and too sad this era as everything wonderful in life, will never come back again, designers must be grateful to this group of women who made it possible their brands became so succesful
The woman makes the clothes. Not the other way around. Models absolutely deserve the money they make . Women see these beautiful models in these clothes and they aspire to look as glamorous and beautiful as the models. When a super model puts her stamp on a designer, that helps the line sell much better. It also helps the model a great deal by working for high end designers, so it's a win win situation.
What a sexist question. Of course they deserve every cent and more. Beauty is power, and they’re excellent at their job. They bring designers visibility. People look at the clothes coz they model attracts their eyes. And these women are legends.. there have never been models like that again.
Karl said it perfectly! The photographers photographed the most beautiful models. Then those models would appear in magazines and papers wearing the designers clothes thus promoting them. It's always been the image sells the clothes. Otherwise have coat hangers on a rotating rail on the runway.
After these girls’ heyday, the designers purposely started to request and hire very (to be polite) plain looking girls. They didn’t want the focus on the models but the clothes. These girls really were exquisite looking and while there are pretty girls walking today, I don’t think the rise to these girls.
These designers aren’t stupid and obviously they were trying to make money. As Lagerfeld stated “you get that money back in a minute” using these superstar models. If the designers didn’t see a return by paying these models the high fees then they wouldn’t be willing to pay, pure and simple. Looking back on this era of fashion, there’s NO denying that this special group of superstar models help sales skyrocket for these designers. Some of these looks are absolutely iconic!! I was a teenager during this time and I remember so many of these collections and I vividly remember the supermodels who wore them on the run. This was an amazing time in fashion and will likely never be replicated. Those ladies deserved EVERY penny!!!
This Super models work hard for thier money not like todays” supper models” is all about what girls have the most social media followers or Mommy or daddy got them the job for them. Not to say the models today don’t work hard but things are hand over to them rather then earning thier fame.
How about Yasmeen Ghauri, she’s in Unzipped, Isaac Mizrahi’s documentary, but never shown on the runway in that movie. She’s mentioned here, but not interviewed. What’s the deal? I think she’s amazing. But something tells me she didn’t either play the game, or something because unlike the others, there’s not a lot of information about her, and I’d love to see more! She’s the greatest on the catwalk, she’s gorgeous in photography, amazing body...I just don’t get it.
Yasmeen hated the spotlights she never wanted to be a celebrity, she just wanted to be a model. It saddens me sometimes cause she's my favorite supermodel but its so little on her after her days of modeling
She didn’t want to be in the spotlight because she knew that if really let herself into it, her private life would be inculcated and exposed by the media. That’s one of the reasons why she has a stable life and family unlike others who are still single or fighting for child support or whatever. She wanted to be professional and she was so. She knew that she had it but at the same time she didn’t want ameliorate that and forget who she was and where had came from. After all it was her call to leave at the peak of her career and go start a family. Really proud of her and love her till date.
the assumption 'are they worth the money they get' is always annoyed me because they seem to imply their presence or impact on the catwalk stays on the catwalk when in fact, the money they are paid pays for the impact these girls had on SALES after the catwalk. they all had massive international following who purchased everything they wore. it is no different today apart from the technology where models now have instagram to manage all their following.
Love the early 90s supermodels but do find it interesting how different media have a different set of top 10 to each other, Calvin is a hypocrite - he used all that big girls for his shows back then. Love the supermodels
I absolutely agree, Calvin Klein is very much a hypocrite after all he's responsible for the career of Kate Moss and used Chirsty Turlington in ad's for his fragrance at during that time. And considering that his clothes were often beige and boring he needed all the supermodels he could afford.
+Clay Byrd I totally agree with you! Calvin's collections would of looked like a collection from a catalogue/mail order if he didn't have those girls. And yes why use such "superstars" in his campaigns if he's so anti supermodel. I think they were worth the money and Kark hits the nail on the head about the fee.
Calvin wasn't anti- supermodel. Where did you get this from? He simply decided that he wanted to experiment with a new look. He wanted something fresh and that was the switch to the waifs with Kate Moss. That's when his brand really took off. So, it worked. That's not being hypocritical, that's being creative! And quite frankly, looking back, early 90's supermodels were kind of tacky.
Omg... Calvin Klein reaped millions of dollars from his Eternity fragrance campaign by using Christy Turlington's face... and not too recently he still used Christy Turlington to sell his underwear ..
it seems like the 90s was the height of everything in the media! sports, music, fashion, movies, tv shows, any form of entertainment seemed so much more iconic and special
The more anyone makes for the company, the higher the pay-rate. If putting Naomi in Cavalli generates more sales, then you pay her more than a model who models the clothes just as well but does not generate as many sales. Just like casting actors in a movie.
Yeah, having grown up in that era everybody knew these models for sure. But this is also the era of extreme wealth and extreme poverty. And when it came out how much money these girls were making, a lot of the public was not so thrilled. And there was in some of the girls kind of a snarky haughtiness to them in interviews. So when I believe it was Linda Evangelista told reporter that she doesn’t get out of bed for less than $10,000, there was a severe public backlash. And her PR firm could never get over it. And a lot of the designers were thrilled by the fact that the downfall of the supermodel occurred because they wanted people to focus on the clothes, not the models. This was the greed is good era. And eventually the public got tired of it.
I feel like Linda Evangelista had a lot to do with helping contribute to the downfall of the models being known (therefore being able to get paid [the designers signed on to help to make sure that it’s kept that way {I don’t feel like Gianni Versace would’ve done that though}]). As she is known for making that statement it helped to seal that anyone else coming behind her would have to practically kill themselves to make the kind of money that she made.
Gigi,Kendall-supermodels? Never like Naomi,Linda,Cindy,Helena,Christy and the rest of the crew. Kendall looks so ordinary like the girl next door. If she is not one of Kardashian I don't think that she would be any kind of model, so call her a supermodel is funny
This is what the real modeling means. Like what Calvin Klein said models express the attitude of the clothes and in order for the models to do that they should have the most important things. Its the hard work, patience, and passion. Thats how models were way back in 80's and 90's. That's why I really adore them. And they were really natural, from head to toe. Im not against about plastic surgery, it's just for me modelling is not just a job you can get because youre beautiful or just because you have a sexy body. Its an art. I dunno maybe Im just really an old school person lol
Calvin Klein didn’t understand the value of a woman. It’s all about HIS clothes. Such a Narcissist. What is the use of a designer for whom the woman is not the point? A beautiful woman makes anything look good. No amount of expensive clothes will impress if the woman wearing them doesn’t have the personality to carry them.
I feel like Linda Evangelista had a lot to do with helping contribute to the downfall of the models being known (therefore being able to get paid [the designers signed on to help to make sure that it’s kept that way {I don’t feel like Gianni Versace would’ve done that though}]). As she is known for making that statement it helped to seal that anyone else coming behind her would have to practically kill themselves to make the kind of money that she made.
Truer now than ever that the companies make the fees back in a second. There are more rich people now than ever and the prices have climbed accordingly.
My word these models are worth every cent.. look at guys playing football. Any guy sport. Seriously so much money just to run, kick a ball around. Also where are your manners. You NEVER ask a person how much money do you make an have... that's disgusting. No manners at all..
Don't ever feed me the BS that models are supposed to be clothes hangers that disappear from view because that was NEVER the case. From Twiggy and Mary Quant to Cheryl Tiegs to Christie Brinkley to Iman. There are no commercially successful models from any era whose personalities and charisma were not capitalized on. The rise of the supermodel in the 1990s was an urepeatable event due in large part to the fact that there were a key group of them at the same time during a period when fashion, music, and culture were experiencing a renaissance. Timing and talent. These women were celebrities in their own right and yes, they absolutely earned every cent they were paid.
Boy was Lagerfeld wrong when he said "it's not a job they can do for 20 years". Lol. Many of these women still are and continue to be the most important faces in fashion. They were trailblazers at the peak of their careers, and put the entire fashion industry on the map in the 90s. They elevated the industry to stratospheres it hadn't enjoyed before, and brought glamour and excitement to a rather mundane and rigid industry that catapulted many of the designers at the time to mainstream exposure and dare I say celebrity status. In other words they gave then deaigners and fashion industry street cred.
The supermodel group of the 90's MADE those designer houses what they are today. People started being interested in fashion, watching runway shows and buying Vogue just to see THEM. They WERE the point of your runway shows Calvin, no one would be interested in your (lazy) designs if they weren't the ones modeling them. Imo they weren't paid ENOUGH.
I don't know why supermodels got attacked for their wages, it wasn't as if it was taxpayers money. Plus, is a ball player anymore deserving of £1 million million dollars for running around a pitch because they were born tall/fast or with another physical quality?
these supermodels were the original influencers and deserved every penny the get. and if the model isn't the point well then why hire the supermodels if it costs much? lol. the hypocrisy
astonishing how some designers feel they can discredit models because of that profession and the failure to understand how important they are as far as bringing the clothing to life.
if the designers do not want to pay for models why don't they simply show their clothes on the hangers? Cheapest way to portray the idea. Unless... unless models do matter and they do contribute to the sales.
Calvin K, what a hipocr... without big five. he would be not even 50% of what it is now. And if he says that he don't need them why he is useing the best ones.. Just use other models. 0 respect this guy.
Well his entire show was big names. There were like 20 top 80's and 90's models in it, they just kept coming and coming, I think there was only one I couldn't identify. So if he was making a stand, he was doing it badly.
Наконец-то в одном сюжете все мои любимицы. Только Нади не хватает. Боже, до чего же красивые женщины! Грудь, бедра, лицо, походка - это что-то запредельное! Обожаю! 30 лет назад у меня была одна единственная фотография из газеты, я хранила её и любовалась. А теперь есть возможность видеть этих богинь и наслаждаться увиденным!
Calvin Klein says , 'The model is not the point'. Well, let me eleborate on that Mr.Underwear. Models are humans,just like everybody else.Your products are made to sold to the majority of the people (whether big or small, and don't get me wrong,the majority of those majorities will not be stick thin like the models), BUT you still hire models like THE SUPERMODELS and say ,'THEY ARE NOT THE POINT'????? IRONIC is what it is
if the models were not the point, just put the clothes on the hangers, no fees, no fuss. unless... unless the models do matter and contribute to the sales and let people imagine how the clothing would look on them, what image they could create, how the clothing moves, what it can do. and also, wearing something a superstar model wore might help the buyer feel better about themselves.
I met Jeane Beker in 1997 I loved her show so much. She was lovely. As for the models I never got the fascination with Tatiana Patitz at all. The others were magical. I forgot about Nadege. She was one of my favourites.
Starting her career in 1983, Tatjana ran so others could walk. In pictures, on the runway, campaigns, covers…changes in hair styles…slowing down, coming back. Hers is a career to respect and admire.
The couple of thousand dollars they paid these ladies is a drop in the bucket compared to the millions the designers will gain from using their photos. Pay them!
lmfao yeah , and they cut out of talking about those models right to a video of Elle MacPherson walking the runway. I am not sure Elle or the others care though. Elle is worth something like 50 million dollars and her career lasted 30 years, enormous. The others, well.. the brightest lights burn out quicker.
For those who do not know, there were 12 and ONLY 12 supermodels. There were famous models to be sure but fame did not meant you were a Supermodel (I’m talking to you Janice). And richer models were not Supermodels (Giselle, u listening?) nor does being the off spring of someone rich & famous make you one (Any Hadid/Jenner type belongs here). No. There were 12 and no more & no less. These models were picked by Anna Wintour herself to be in all white sportswear for Vogue’s Centennial cover in ‘92. If you weren’t on there? Well, calling yourself one or a fan of Shalom or Tyra saying they were does not make it so. Sorry not sorry. You were STUNNING Nadgea but u didn’t make the list…..along with countless others.
I think it was just a blend of the right time, the right girls, the right designers - it just will never happen again. Elsa got it right on this one - besides, not only was Nadege missing from that cover you’re talking about but so was Helena Christensen
