If the careers of the top models of the Eighties manage to make us dream, it is also because we rarely know the gray areas. This is what deciphers a new Apple TV+ documentary released on September 20, 2023 on the platform.
The documentary Supermodels reveals the dirty underbelly of the success of the top models of the 80s
From the glories of the Eighties to today, Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista, Cindy Crawford and Christy Turlington tell their journey. To better understand what has enabled their success, their fame and even their longevity, other fashion figures add their point of view, such as the former editor-in-chief of Rowing The British Edward Enninful, the current artistic director of Maison Margiela John Galliano, the designer Marc Jacobs and even the designer Donetalla Versace.
Larissa Bills and Roger Ross Williams, co-directors of the four-part documentary, collect particularly revealing anecdotes about how models are objectified, or worse, by the teams around them. Whether it’s Cindy Crawford who talks about how her hair was cut off by surprise without her consent before a photo shoot, to Linda Evangelista who barely got off a plane to shoot in Japan and was forced to undress, to Christy Turlington who found herself topless on the cover of the French magazine Photo, or even Naomi Campbell who had to pose in a former slave plantation. They were all minors at the time of the events.
Unfortunately, this violence is not ancient history, and watching this documentary today helps to measure the road traveled and the road that remains to be traveled.
Source: Madmoizelle
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