Craft Files: Model know-how
Joshua Craft
Issue date: 5/3/07 Section: Arts & Entertainment
As this school year comes to a close so does a year in fashion, at least for this newspaper. But just because we have a few months off does not mean that the fashion industry does. Right now designers are putting together collections for the couture shows in Paris, which will take place in July, and menswear collections will also be shown in July.
This is just one example of the fashion industry's effort to stay fresh and ahead of the game. Always changing and always evolving, there is no vacation in fashion. Sure designers may go to Capri or St. Tropez, but most of the time those trips are to get inspiration for collections they will show months later. Models go non-stop, jet setting around the world for photo shoots in Sydney and Moscow.
When we think of models, we just think of some anorexic fifteen year old wearing thousands of dollars worth of clothing walking down a runway void of any expression. There are so many things wrong with that statement that I do not even know where to begin. Let us try and start from the beginning, when models became the centers of attention.
Janice Dickinson, self-proclaimed world's first supermodel, was a handful back in her heyday. She walked the runways, graced the covers of magazines, and partied at Studio 54 with Andy Warhol and Bianca Jagger. All of this was way before Linda Evangelista and the now infamous quote.
"We do not wake up for less than $10,000 a day," she said.
I absolutely love this quote. This, printed in Vogue in 1990, is one of the things that leads to the fall of a supermodel. But I am getting ahead of myself, let me first fill you in on who the supermodels were of this era.
The most well known supermodels of this era were Cindy, Naomi, Christy and Linda. Of course, I am talking about Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell, Christy Turlington and Linda Evangelista. Most of you probably have no idea who they are without their last names, but in the industry they did not need their last names. Everyone knew who they were. These girls were the ones who were on every runway and gracing every magazine cover. You could not walk past a newsstand without seeing at least one, if not all of them, on the cover of a magazine.
This is just one example of the fashion industry's effort to stay fresh and ahead of the game. Always changing and always evolving, there is no vacation in fashion. Sure designers may go to Capri or St. Tropez, but most of the time those trips are to get inspiration for collections they will show months later. Models go non-stop, jet setting around the world for photo shoots in Sydney and Moscow.
When we think of models, we just think of some anorexic fifteen year old wearing thousands of dollars worth of clothing walking down a runway void of any expression. There are so many things wrong with that statement that I do not even know where to begin. Let us try and start from the beginning, when models became the centers of attention.
Janice Dickinson, self-proclaimed world's first supermodel, was a handful back in her heyday. She walked the runways, graced the covers of magazines, and partied at Studio 54 with Andy Warhol and Bianca Jagger. All of this was way before Linda Evangelista and the now infamous quote.
"We do not wake up for less than $10,000 a day," she said.
I absolutely love this quote. This, printed in Vogue in 1990, is one of the things that leads to the fall of a supermodel. But I am getting ahead of myself, let me first fill you in on who the supermodels were of this era.
The most well known supermodels of this era were Cindy, Naomi, Christy and Linda. Of course, I am talking about Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell, Christy Turlington and Linda Evangelista. Most of you probably have no idea who they are without their last names, but in the industry they did not need their last names. Everyone knew who they were. These girls were the ones who were on every runway and gracing every magazine cover. You could not walk past a newsstand without seeing at least one, if not all of them, on the cover of a magazine.
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