Super Models
May, 1997
It all starts with Cindy. Although the term supermodel has been floating about since the Forties, the modern definition arose by necessity to describe the break-out success of Cindy Crawford. Helped by her July 1988 pictorial in playboy, Cindy became a celebrity first and a model second. In the ensuing decade, new members of the supermodel genus (Vulpinus majoris) were identified. There were the girls-night-out trinity of Linda Evangelista, Christy Turlington and Naomi Campbell, and our cover gi...