![]() Helena Christensen: This former Miss Denmark changed our lives forever with her appearance in the music video for Chris Isaak's Wicked Game. (It was a failure in America, but a single from it was a huge hit in Japan.) Plus, she used to date Usher. Naomi Campbell: Instantly recognizable, Campbell's made $50 million modeling, was one of People's 50 Most Beautiful People in 1991, wrote (well, cowrote) a novel, and sold one million copies of her first and only album, Babywoman. But 1) these days, everybody has her own perfume, and 2) nobody outside of Germany can pronounce her last name. Nadja Auermann: Said to have the world's longest legs (they're 45"), Auermann has appeared on many magazine covers, starred in a couple German movies, and has her own perfume. But being unable to act your way out of a paper bag is just all part of la vita supermodel. ![]() She also became one of the first fashion models to be really, really bad at acting. Born in 1932, the 5'10" Parker ushered in the era of tall female models, starred in many ad campaigns, and appeared in the movie Funny Face with Fred Astaire. A better candidate for first-ever supermodel might be Suzy Parker. But we feel that no one who ever appeared on Surreal Lifeshould be legally allowed the title of "super" anything. ![]() Hence, she calls herself the world's first supermodel. And I'm Perfect, coined the term supermodel in 1979. Janice Dickinson, the thrice-divorced Surreal Life alum who wrote the literary gem Everything About Me Is Fake. That is to say, you don't have to know your Dolce from your Gabbana to know that Cindy Crawford is really pretty. The difference between regular and super models is generally believed to involve not money but fame: A supermodel is someone whose celebrity extends outside of the fashion world. One day, perhaps, there will be a Model Sanctioning Body that will establish clear rules for who qualifies as a supermodel-but until then we'll just have to muddle our way through. Like beauty itself, supermodeldom is in the eye of the beholder. So, while in the early 1980s models tended to be anonymous, today they are once again making waves and becoming true icons that we all know and recognise.The Quick Trick: A model gets arrested for snorting cocaine a supermodel gets on the cover of People for snorting cocaine. En effet Linda, Cindy, Kate, Naomi, Claudia, Carla and Christy are names firmly imprinted in our minds. This phenomenon seems to take us back to the 90s, in fact already in that decade this concept of model-celebrity began to spread. ![]() There are many up-and-coming models joining those who have literally made their mark on the fashion world for some time now. There is a time when models have become much more like celebrities, making it possible for us viewers to identify them as they blaze the catwalks around the world. But beware, what distinguishes a model from a supermodel? In recent years, models have become more and more valuable and important, allowing us to get to know – through their particular attitude – much more than the aesthetic side. Many people think that their job consists solely of looking beautiful, but this is not actually the case. We are talking about models, the true face of the fashion system. During the fashion month, theirs is undoubtedly one of the most important professional roles. ![]()
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