It’s no secret that the golden age of the supermodels was a monumental moment in fashion history: one to cherish and reminisce about fondly. Certain factors merge for such legendary cultural situations like that to happen, and still to this day, The Big 6 and The Trinity continue to take over fashion editorials and as models and celebrities in their own right. As a lead into your weekend, allow us to present this question from Helena Christensen, who recently pontificated on just how the supermodel moment came to be:
“Sometimes, moments just happen to coordinate and work out. But I do think that if I was to say anything, we were allowed to just be ourselves. Each one of us had a very unique look in the sense that we looked different. There was no conformity about our look-and our personalities too, we had very different personalities, and emotionally and mentally we were different-but I think that that put together created this strong force of women. And no one told us to be any different. No one ever came up to me and said, “you need to reshape your body, to lose weight, or to be more outgoing, or less outgoing”. We were just allowed to be us, and I think at the end of the day, isn’t that the whole point of being a human being? To be allowed to be yourself, to be accepted the way you are? Ironically enough, in a business where a lot of styles and looks are dictated in some way, from the point of view of the media onto the audience, I think it’s so great that we got to just remain our quirky selves and have the body shapes that we had without anyone ever pointing a finger at anything. Maybe that’s what gave our careers longevity.”
