Available since the end of September on Apple TV+, the four-part series Les Supermodels narrates the revolutionary destinies of 1990s legends Linda Evangelista, Christy Turlington, Naomi Campbell and Cindy Crawford.
We discover the particular destinies of four women who are now in their fifties and who have spent – as Naomi Campbell puts it – “most of their lives in front of the camera”. But the series also reveals a cautionary tale of often formidable businesswomen who have made their mark not only on the catwalks, but also in the fashion industry. Powerful women in a world and age where power figures are often male. But Roger Ross Williams and Larissa Bills’ series also tells the story of the 1990s, a glorious era for fashion, when money flowed freely, but also when the financialization of an industry that a few decades earlier was still artisanal, came to an end. A time, finally, when the canons of beauty imposed on women’s bodies – and propagated by Supermodels – were still far from being challenged. Interviewed in the series, Tim Blanks, journalist for The Business of Fashion, sees Supermodels as modern Mona Lisas, the faces of an era.
