WHAT: Potential Supermodels
WHEN: Fashion Week, Life
WEAR: Something that expresses your own style
WHY: I look back at images of fashion shows from the 80's as well as when I was first starting to truly get into fashion, around the late 90's and cannot help but make comparisons to the fashion shows of today. One of the most obvious things missing from today's catwalks are models with personality. With the exception of a few top girls, the majority of the girls on the runway are quite interchangeable. According to Donatella Versace, "There is an idea of neutrality in models now. Little make-up, no expression, like a robot ... That is very stupid. It is almost as if the models have to have the appearance of something serious, to give an intellectual base, but they themselves are rarely like that." It often becomes hard to match a name with a face or even a with "signature" walk. It seems that girls like Naomi, Amber, Linda, and Christy do not exist anymore. Those girls, amongst many others (Kirsty, Gisele, Kristen to name a few) had distinct looks as well as walks that could only belong to them.
These girls also had attitude, onstage and off. Versace recalls a time girls would fight backstage. "One day they had a fight about roots. Kristen [McMenamy] had arrived with black roots in blonde hair, and Linda [Evangelista] arrived with black roots in blonde hair; and both of them went mad, both saying they were first. Really, that is a big thing for models — roots! They were calling the hairdresser in New York, the colourist in New York, and I was called on as a witness to say who was the first to do black roots in blonde hair. At the time Steven Miesel [sic] was really inventing the look of the girls in this way, so I knew who was first: Kristen." Girls just don't get heated over things like this these days, sigh.
Hopefully there is a return to booking girls that have a real personality that shines through on the runway, but doesn't necessarily distract from the clothes. Here's hoping.
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