I feel dead inside that 90s Supermodels are making a comeback – am I the only one?
It was a decade fraught with bad body image and unattainable beauty - I'm not keen to return
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First there was the September Vogue cover of Naomi Campbell, Christy Turlington, Linda Evangelista and Cindy Crawford (which got an absolute bum roasting on social media although the rest of the shoot was gorgeous). Then the same four were recently part of the finale at Vogue World (billed as the UK version of the Met Gala). No surprise then that 2023 has been billed as the return of the Supers, and anyone watching might think that this was part of some positive movement around older women.
Anyone more cynical may wonder ‘why now’ given that the fashion world is still hardly inclusive of age and even when it is, airbrushes women’s faces into a smooth mush of ageless plasti-skin. The answer to that is capitalism, baby! There is a TV show to promote, specifically Apple TV’s The Supermodels which comes out on 20 September.
I watched the trailer to see if it might convince me otherwise – and although I am loathe to comment on anything I haven’t fully seen yet, I’m not entirely sure it does. It has been billed as being ‘all about the women’ and they are the ‘original influencers’, with a focus on their friendship.
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