OK, wend, gonna type up some quotes from the article. Can't do many bc copyright but also it's blimmin' exhausting typing up that sh*t. But, just to give you a flavour.
Aww babe you literally typed up from the effing paper these buns are felt but they are still fine to launch at people
And obs the real thing [ Just pretend they r from m & s ]
Journalist is Farrah Storr, article in The Times, Tues 15 Aug.
"The term 'supermodel' has become hazy over the past few decades. Is Kylie Jenner a
noying.
supermodel or a celebrity who happens to model?"
space cadet
"One thing we can all agree on is that in the beginning there were only three 'original' supermodels,
yes
otherwise known as 'the Trinity':
Ah. Yes the trinity,and the power of witnessing that. this lives in my soul. It was a time and can never be touched...time did did a great job ruining it though
Linda Evangelista, Christy Turlington and Naomi Campbell, joined shortly afterwards by Cindy Crawford, Tatjana Patitz and Claudia Schiffer."
Love love love all of them everyone of them. Naomi is my fave. I love them all though big love
"For a brief, bright period these women were not just celebrities but cultural totems,
Really strong.
representing a time that was free to worship beauty, glamour and celebrity. This week four of those models are back on the cover of Vogue, re-creating a Peter Lindbergh cover that was made in 1990 for British Vogue."
"What intrigues me most about this cover ... is the fact it represents a time that will never and could never exist again.
Bugger. now i feel depressed but tis the truth
Supermodelmania can't exist in the way it did ...
Reading that babe i actually feel it in the pit of the gut
Internet killed everything!
because not only has modelling changed beyond comprehension but we have changed so much too.
internet! but it is truth
Today it's deeply unfashionable to revere anything as crass as beauty, and the internet has fractured attention to such a degree
That is a
really unsettling thought
that it's near impossible ... to have a handful of women dominate the cultural conversation.
Well they are missing out - as M would say
But perhaps the most interesting point, and one that is seldom discussed, is that the way supermodels behaved behind the scenes - demanding equal pay, taking campaigns only if their peers were hired too, and appearing on competing magazines' covers at the same time - can never be repeated."
Farrah Storr then talks about how it's done nowadays which is that a model will be signed by a publishing house which means she can only appear in certain publications.
Bugger so much red tape and copy right. Even just making instagram fan pages people go after people for the copy right i was in hot water myself The grunge people did not like it.
If she's signed up for the Vogue publisher then she can't appear on the cover of Elle and vice versa.
Oh my gosh so ruined.
And, if that is the case, then how do you become well known, how do you become a global superstar model?
Major mindsets have killed , has ruined the glamour of ooooooh ....this article is spiky babe ! Everything is in tatters ...and the core of it.
"The same is true of catwalk shows. Today some designers will exclusively book models for their shows, meaning that these models cannot 'walk' for anyone else that season.
Everything is so tied down. * feelsw the need to rescue all the current 'supermodels * - they don't exist now .
This was not the case in the supermodel days, when the supers would walk for almost all the biggest shows.
I remember so much i could post a ton vids
This not only elevated the models but created an amplified buzz around every show they walked for, meaning the fashion industry attracted more attention ...
did , it meshed with music as we all know with M and Naomi etc . This is all my childhood all them had a super model . *takes everyones supermodels*
There was an authenticity to the supers in the early 1990's that would be
likened to the penrose tribar to be fair ...that's the feeling that comes up here.
exactly my thought too
Mmmm this ...pain lives rent free in my head.
*sets on a mission 2 replicate it*
Then Farrah Storr talks about how, nowadays, models and celebrities demand, and are given, image approval, copy approval and even sometimes headline approval. Which I personally think is bonkers.
Thanks for typing this
@zinniabooklover Really , really thanks.
For all its faults, the world of journalism / publishing should never have given up that kind of control over what they write or publish.
"The result is that ... models can feel like impossibly flat avatars - individuals who are incapable of connecting with their audience through the overfinessing of the very thing audiences connect with in the first place: their image."
And this destroys the message in the first place!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i need to insert George Michael's freedom vid here
@zinniabooklover i just found the Vou i need that ma!ge vid !
i meant to say zin i just found a Vo vid [same time i saw the magazine]
ng stupid & blonde b
