Julia Leischik, Cologne, West Germany, TV documentary hostess
Margaret Ware, Toronto, Canada, casting director/costume designer/Fashion Institute of Technology graduate
Massimiliano Griner, Milan, Italy, writer
Nathaniel Kunkel, Northampton, Massachusetts, record producer
Paul Fitzgerald, New York, New York, actor/writer/director
Sergio Di Pasquale Luci, Pisa, Italy, documentarian
Signe Ryge Petersen, birthplace unspecified, Danish TV gardening show hostess
Takako Katoh, Shizuoka, Japan, actress
Ulises de la Orden, Buenos Aires, Argentina, documentarian
Today’s Winner takes the prize not because she’s not at all bad looking, but because, even though she was on a lot of magazine covers and made, I suspect, enough money to buy a ton of cold cream, her name is very little known.I remember the days when supermodeldom actually corresponded to wide public recognition.
What happened?Who are today’s actual top models?Hardly anybody can tell you, because nobody cares.I am reminded of the occasion in the early 1990s when I went to see Prince at RadioCity, and there was a pack of supermodels hanging around in the lobby (including real life Cindy Crawford and Christy Turlington, the latter being way better looking in person than I ever saw on the page).Sure, they were dreamy long-tressed beauties, but also there was an aura of fame and actual glamour they exuded that today’s crop seems to sorely lack.And there were, like, nine of them.Maybe I already posted about this.Anyway, you could not assemble a commensurate gaggle of supermodels today.They’d just be nine tall hot women in trashy skirts, which you can see 200 nights a year out on Ludlow Street.
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