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- Evelyn Nesbit (with a career launched around 1900) and Dorian Leigh (her career launched in 1944) have also been called the world's first supermodel, as well as Jean Shrimpton (early 1960s), and Gia Carangi (late 1970s).
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Evelyn Nesbit achieved great fame more than a century ago as a model. She revolutionised cultural life, writes Lindsay Baker. What makes a supermodel? A preternatural beauty, of course, but...
Lisa Fonssagrives is widely considered to have been the world's first supermodel, with a career that began in the 1930s. [24][25][26][27] She was in most of the major fashion magazines and general interest magazines from the 1930s to the 1950s, including Town & Country, Life, Vogue, the original Vanity Fair, Harper's Bazaar, and Time. [28] .
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- Gia Carangi. Gia Carangi is widely considered to be the first supermodel. Her strikingly dark good looks paved the way for a generation of supermodels (including Cindy Crawford, who was nicknamed “Baby Gia” due to her resemblance to the famous model).
- Jean Shrimpton. With her huge eyes, perfect pout, and scandalously short skirt, Jean Shrimpton was an icon of the swinging sixties. During her career, Jean was dubbed “The It Girl” and “The Face” and was widely reported to be the world’s highest-paid model.
- Janice Dickinson. Many models have claimed to be the first supermodel, but only one has actually claimed to have invented the word. Janice Dickinson says she coined the term in 1979 during a conversation with her manager.
- Lisa Fonssagrives. Lisa Fonssagrives once described herself as “a good clothes hanger,” but she was much, much more than that. In the 1940s and 50s, this humble Swedish model was the highest-paid and highest-praised fashion model in the business.
Jun 13, 2021 · When Gia Carangi's life is remembered at all, it is remembered as a tragedy. Though she is acknowledged as the world's first true supermodel, her short life and her tragic demise mean that her name isn't as widely known as you'd expect from someone who had achieved such a feat.
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Jul 14, 2015 · The first beginnings of the supermodel started in the 1940s and 1950s with Bettina Graziani also known simply as just Bettina. Working with influential designers including Christian Dior and Hubert de Givenchy, her small waist helped define the ‘New Look’ fashions of Dior.
The Super Models is a new documentary series on Apple TV+, exploring the rise to fame of the world's first four supermodels. The four-part series spotlights the careers of Naomi Campbell,...
Aug 14, 2023 · Christy, Cindy, Linda, Naomi— the greatest of all time, the original supermodels. There were models christened “super” before them (Jean Shrimpton, Twiggy, Donyale Luna) and some after...
