Vogue enlisted the best fashions of all time to helm its September 2023 concern.
Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell, Christy Turlington and Linda Evangelista shocked in black get-ups for the duvet, which dropped on Friday, August 11. Evangelista, 58, introduced the glam in a sequined Michael Kors coat, whereas Crawford, 57, and Campbell, 53, opted for Bottega Veneta and Prada robes, respectively. Turlington, 54, for her half, sported a coordinating Versace jacket and skirt.
The style icons went on to reminisce about life within the “supermodel bubble” again within the day. “It was insane. We’re not the Beatles!” Evangelista quipped concerning the overwhelming media consideration gained from the women’ look in George Michael’s “Freedom! ’90” music video and their iconic arm-in-arm strut on the Versace catwalk in 1991.
The fab 4 took the style trade by storm starting within the late ‘80s. “I bear in mind when Cindy first walked in for a casting in 1986. I’m a designer who was at all times glad to see some curves. At the moment the whole lot was nonetheless very church and state; print fashions didn’t know methods to transfer,” designer Michael Kors recalled to Vogue. “Cindy walked for me and also you knew it was an entire new chapter — very poised, her personal manner of transferring, not caught within the old-world Parisian manner of modeling. The fashions who have been conventional runway fashions in that present took a take a look at her and knew this was going to be an entire new period.”
Crawford, Campbell, Turlington and Evangelista have been every on the prime of their recreation — and so they nonetheless wholeheartedly supported each other. “There was a sisterhood there, outlined by caring and loyalty: When one is down you choose the opposite one up,” Campbell gushed, noting that her mannequin buddies have been those who satisfied her to stroll in her first present for Kors, now 64, after a last-minute cancellation.
The squad continues to be surviving (and thriving!) within the modeling world, getting a front-row seat to how issues have modified over the many years.
“What’s driving me now could be seeing that alternatives are being given,” Campbell added earlier than discussing the way it felt to shut Valentino’s 2019 spring couture present. “Once I circled [at the finale] and noticed all these stunning ladies dressed so elegantly. … Why was it that I used to be doing the identical job as my colleagues and needed to take much less cash? Why was I booked for the exhibits however not the advertisements? I used to be not close-mouthed.”
She continued: “I used to be blessed to be working with unbelievable creatives who cared about your opinion if you have been too younger to have the ability to have an opinion. I can by no means say I’ve been bored. I’ve been blessed.”
