Today is March 8th, International Women’s Day and we are commemorating the top models through the decades who have shaped what fashion is today. If you haven’t started from Part 1 we recommend you do! You won’t want to miss iconic supermodels like Twiggy, Iman, and Cindy Crawford!
But if you’ve already seen the 1960s-1980s, let’s keep moving forward!
1990s: Christy Turlington, Linda Evangelista, Naomi Campbell, Tyra Banks, Kate Moss
Turlington, now 46 and with 2 kids, is still modeling, representing Calvin Klein’s Eternity campaign and Maybelline
Evangelista has been on over 700 magazine covers and is famous for coining the phrase:
“we don’t wake up for less than $10,000 a day”
Campbell was recruited at age 15 and is still very much a current celebrity starring on television shows such as The Face and its international offshoots.
Banks is an American television personality, former talk show host, producer, author, actress, and former model – whew! she’s really just done it all.
She is also one of four African Americans and seven women to have repeatedly ranked among the world’s most influential people by Time magazine
Discovered at age 14, Moss is known for her waifish figure and role in size zero fashion. In 2013, she received an award at the British Fashion Awards to acknowledge her contribution to fashion over 25 years.
2000s: Anja Rubik, Lara Stone, Freja Beha Erichsen, Gemma Ward
Rubik was one of the faces to land in one of the fourteen covers of V Magazine, and was declared by Vogue Paris as one of the top 30 models of the 2000s
As of October 2013, Erichsen is listed as one of the “Industry Icons” and Vogue Paris also declared her one of the top 30 models of the 2000s
In 2012, Stone came in 8th on the Forbes top-earning models list
Ward was first scouted at the age of 14, and made her Australian Fashion Week debut aged 15. She later became the youngest model to appear on the cover of the American edition of Vogue, later appearing on the covers of both Teen Vogue and Time
2010s: Cara Delevingne, Karlie Kloss, Candice Swanepoel, Liu Wen, Gigi Hadid
An English fashion model, actress, and singer, Delevingne was included in The Sunday Times Magazine as one of the “100 Makers of the 21st Century” list of influential British people in March 2014
Kloss is one of the top 30 models of the 2000s as named by Vogue Paris. She was a Victoria’s Secret Angel from 2013-2015.
Swanepoel is a South African fashion model best known for her work with Victoria’s Secret. In 2012, she came in 10th on the Forbes top-earning models list.
She is the first model of East Asian descent to walk the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show In 2010, she became the first spokesmodel of Asian descent for Estee Lauder and in 2012, The New York Times named her “China’s first bona fide supermodel”
Hadid is a Palestinian-American fashion model and TV personality. She was named one of 12 rookies in Sports Illustrated annual swimsuit issue in 2014.
and that’s a wrap!
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