Seventies Era Supermodels: An Appreciation

Janice Dickinson was never even pretty and was so cheap looking. Lisa Taylor I think was the prettiest, but she was so fucked up. I read that book Model about that whole era it was a great read.

[quote] Who reigned supreme?

Many who are anti-Muslim may disagree, but I say Ypir.

Lisa Taylor's work with Chris von Wangenheim & Helmut Lang will forever haunt me.

I'm not that into modeling, but I'm fascinated by how free-wheeling that era was. Posing nude at a photographer's apartment? While the two of you do coke together? Kudos to all who survived -- seriously!

Always loved this Calvin Klein ad with Patti Hansen.

Is it the pose, the makeup, or her anatomy in OP's photo? Because her breasts look terribly uneven. Beyond what one should typically expect.

Lauren Hutton. Mind the gap!

Half White American/ half Japanese Marie Helvin, who was also ex-girlfriend of Camilla Duchess of Cornwall’s playboy brother in the 1980s.

R4, they gave no fucks. Look at Apollonia van Ravenstein (one of Mick Jagger's pre-Jerry Hall squeezes). I'm still trying to figure out the origin/credits for this photo.

Even though she's associated with the 60s, because that's when she made her debut, Lauren Hutton was THE supermodel of the 70s. That's when she shot most of her (now 27) American Vogue covers, that's when she signed her Revlon contract, and that's when she started doing a lot of film and TV work...

Marie Helvin by David Bailey whom she was formerly married to as well.

R1, you're the first person I've ever seen claim that Janice Dickinson wasn't pretty in her modeling heyday. She was always nuts, but very exotic & beautiful.

I once stood behind Patti Hansen in the Gristede's checkout line in the early 80s. She was low-key but incredibly sexy. I seem to recall a tank top, tight jeans, boots...a rock chick look. It was probably around the time she got together with Keith Richards. I watched a black teenage boy stare at her in utter slackjawed disbelief; he clearly couldn't wrap his head around the hotness he beheld. She was sweet about it, treated him to a flirtatious grin.

Another time I brushed past Lauren Hutton on Fifth Avenue. Tall and imposing, hair, a real presence.

Not 70s, but got a pretty good gander at Cindy Crawford on a shoot in SoHo around 1990. Her body and features were more petite than I expected.

Ah, the good old days in New York....

R6, it's the pose. I think it's part the way she's posed and possibly that her boobs were taped unevenly. It's still a gorgeous shot!

Cristina Ferrare was known to pick up weight. (According to Beverly Johnson) if her garment didn't fit she'd snap "I'm Cristina Ferrare! Cut it up the back!" LOL. The cover at OP looks as if it could be one of those garments.

Was it compulsory for everyone to sport Taylor's hairstyle at one point back in the day? It seems like it.

I was mystified when I read that Marie Helvin was a supermodel in the 1970s. In the 1990s, she looked like Sarah Brightman dressed as "Bad girl" Sandy from GREASE.

I don't know what the hell is going on there R15, but that wasn't Lisa's regular look! LOL.

R16 she photographed well but her personal styling including hairstyle was very meh. She was known for her figure and high fashion nude, swimsuit and lingerie shoots.

I loved these 1980s Revlon ads, that frequently appeared in my mom's Ladies Home Journals....LOL. This particular one was a showdown for who could serve the Best Face. And of course, as always, Iman reigns supreme! Nice try Beverly Johnson & Louise Vyent!

Karen Graham for Estee Lauder

Hate to be a DL cliche - but Gia will always be my 70s model fantasy - her crazy life, almost masculine features, big lips with huge breasts - all packed in a lesbian with attitude from Philly. A myth more than reality - but a 70s prototype.

Gia had BDE, not masculine features.

I never got the love for Cheryl Tiegs. She wasn't all that.

R14 she and cybill Shepherd were the “big boned” models. R23 me neither. I think that corn fed look was just so in back then that even someone fairly unremarkable was considered a “beauty.” Shes friends with a good friend of mine though and seems cool.

I knew it was coming R21. I don't think Gia was the best model of that era by any means, but she did look gorgeous in a lot of her early shots. IMO (and for obvious reasons), she lost some of her spark towards the end. I think most of her fans are more enthralled by her lesbianism, tragic ending and by that movie, than by anything she ever did in front of a camera.

Rene!

R23, I completely agree. Cheryl Tiegs was cute/pretty in a California surfer girl kinda way, but she was NEVER one of the great beauties. I personally find her looks laughable compared to some of the other top models of the day. But somehow she managed to become the most successful. I think it was simply a matter of good promo (the nipple poster), good management and being in the right place at the right time.

R27 she also had (what in my opinion is, but many would disagree) a great body. Tall but not freakish tall (5’9”) skinny but not ED looking, and some tasteful modest curves,

Patti Hansen will always be THE 70s model. She was such a fresh face after the Christina Ferrera’s and others that had that look

Cheryl Tiegs in the 60s did some fashion shoots that were fantastic. It was in the 70s that her shoots became generic. Tiegs has a very symmetrical face which makes her photogenic though not stunningly beautiful. Her face is as symmetrical as you can get which is a rarity even amongst models.

R9, I have seen the photo credited to Ara Gallant on the tumblr linked below, and on other sites.

R26, Rene Russo is one of my favorites as well. I've yet to see a bad shot of her during her modeling days.

Thank you, R9!!!!!

I meant thank you, R31!

I think Christie Brinkley was gorgeous back in the day...great bone structure and thin but curvy body. She has also aged the best of this group...although lately she needs to stop with the fillers....

I adore Rosie Vela. Not only gorgeous, but a talented singer, too.

You said that just as I was prepping a Christie Brinkley post, R35. She just always had "IT"! She was gorgeous in the 70s when she was doing more Fashion oriented modeling. And she still fit right into the 80s when she switched to the more lucrative Spokesmodel/Swimsuit type modeling.

I agree that unfortunately she's went overboard with the fillers lately.

Here’s the link I neglected to post re: Rosie Vela. Video is poor quality but you’ll get the idea.

Debbie Dickinson, who like her sister Janice had quite a successful modeling career for awhile.

Susie Blakely

Janice Dickinson was incredibly beautiful - and a real departure from the Ford thin-lipped blonde look.

Her success actually paved the way for different types of beauty. No one wanted her early on either.

David White. He was a staple in GQ and Esquire. Later he has a staple in his navel...

Tony Stefano. I could never afford clothes.

Brian Buzzini, just one of the stable of International/Undergear models.

Jack Scalia is my favorite of the 1970s male models.

They're just glorified sales people. "Buy this and you'll look/smell/be like me."

True R46. But personally I enjoy the occasionally brilliant art (photography, fashion, etc) that they used to push those products at one time.

Billy Jones is another 70s male model favorite.

Anyone remember Cindy Harrell? Or was she more of a teen model? I remember seeing her all over my sister’s 17 and Teen magazines that I used to sneak-read.

I also recall being struck by a Teen cover back then featuring one Cheryl Stoppelmoor, later Cheryl Ladd. I thought she was the most beautiful blonde California goddess I’d ever seen. Here’s the cover picture, just as I remember it.

R49, young Cheryl Ladd (during her modeling/Josie & The Pussycat days) was gorgeous! She's STILL a very attractive woman, but something was different about her appearance by the time she appeared on Charlie's Angels. It could just simply be the change in hair color or a bit of work she had done? I don't know and can't quite put my finger on it?

Barbara Minty was personal favorite of mine, though her marriage McQueen eclipsed her work.

Hard to compete w/a young Cybill Shepherd.

Cheryl Ladd was about 5'2".

IMO, Cybill Shepherd was more everyday / cornfed (as stated above) / girl-next-door.

Child supermodel Brooke Shields

Bebe Buell was a semi-successful model in the 70s. She had the looks to be VERY successful, but instead of focusing on her modeling career she became a groupie, a quite infamous one. Her memoir is hilarious; she keeps reiterating how beautiful she was and how everybody wanted to have sex with her.

[quote] I remember seeing her all over my sister’s 17 and Teen magazines

[quote] Child supermodel Brooke Shields

Seventeen magazine. More like AARP magazine.

Marisa Berensen

The models of Eyes of Laura Mars

Wasn't Christina Ferrare married to John Delorean? Prob great coke access!

Huge Fatties.

Margaux Hemingway

R36 Zazu is the debut album released by American model and singer-songwriter Rosie Vela. The album was produced by Gary Katz, best known for his work with Steely Dan, and many of the songs feature Steely Dan's Donald Fagen on keyboards and Walter Becker on guitar.

Not as memorable as some, but Shelley Hack was very successful. I appreciate her much more now than I did in the 70's/80's.

Beverly Johnson

I loved Nancy Donohue’s rich girl country club vibe. Her father was the COO of Nike and JFK’s personal attorney.

Nancy was married to Jeff Aquilon the hottest male model of the 70’s.

I was on the fashion show circuit for several years and also worked in philanthropy - special event productions a number of years and have met tons of supermodels. Christie Brinkley isn't my genre of model, or beauty, or fashion at all. BUT, she has the highest wattage of any model I've ever met. I don't know about now, as she is now a miraculous cryptkeeper made up to look good on camera, but particularly in the 80s and 90s, when she was past her model sell by date, she was blindingly !!SUPERMODEL!! every time I saw her. She just radiated that. Still does, at least on camera. She is probably a sorceress of some kind. She beams supermodel energy and nobody has that much energy.

Cybill Shepherd’s face really was quite something.

She's a living Barbie. I'm surprised no president ever got her into humanitarian work or lite diplomacy of some kind. I suppose she was asked and wasn't interested. Seen her in Paris, Cannes, Milan, Tokyo, Rio. - she is THE AMERICAN GIRL with that Joker smile and eyes like laser beams.

R68 SHE thinks so.

Tamara Dobson was stunning

LMAO @R70 🤣

Cheryl Tiege’s was MOST upset by having a plus sized model on the cover of “Sports Illustrated” in 2016:

[quote]But it seems not everyone’s pleased. E! News spoke with swimsuit issue veteran Cheryl Tiegs about Sports Illustrated’s decision to feature more varied body types — and the former model was [italic]not [/italic]having it.

[quote]“I don’t like it that we’re [now] talking about full-figured women, because it’s glamorizing them — and your waist should be smaller than 35 [inches],” the 68-year-old explained. “That’s what Dr. Oz said, and I’m sticking to it. I don’t think it’s healthy.” (It should be notes that a 2014 study published by the British Medical Journal found that at least half of television Dr. Mehmet Oz’s medical advice is either without base or entirely wrong.)

[quote]Then, in what seemed to be a blatantly backhanded (and classically fat-shaming) attempt to soften her comments, Tiegs added, “[Graham’s] face is beautiful. Beautiful.”

I'll say it: Good for Cheryl.

Lol r70 (sorry I had to use it for this purpose). I actually think she was at her most beautiful in the Moonlighting years. I think the clothes and the hair styles of that era were much more suited to her look than those of the 70s.

I adore '70s-'80s era Cristina Ferrare. She was frequently in headwraps and turbans, which gave her a glamorously exotic air.

Cristina in gold turban.

[quote]R75 I actually think she was at her most beautiful in the Moonlighting years. I think the clothes and the hair styles of that era were much more suited to her look than those of the 70s.

Probably... but there was probably never a moment in her youth when she looked anything less than spectacular.

Joan Rivers called her “the president of the Fucking Lucky Club” (!)

Cristina in GingerBred red.

70s Cybill

I like ‘70s models and high fashion photos because the art direction had a flair about it that you don’t see today. Also models back then didn’t have fake tits, they were proud of their natural small or full tits. You have models with flat tits like Margaux Hemingway or full raindrop tits like Marie Helvin, they’d still get their tits out in shoots or at clubs they didn’t fucking care.

Margaux was way prettier than her sister and was the more photogenic model.

Taylor Swift reminds me of Patti Hansen.

Iman with Jerry Hall who was famous for her bf's and husbands (Bryan Ferry, Mick Jagger and Rupert Murdoch).

Was Isabella Rossellini a Seventies Supermodel?

[quote]R83 Margaux was way prettier than her sister and was the more photogenic model.

She was very special looking. Too bad she 1.) wasn’t terribly smart, and 2.) bipolar.

Halstonettes

[quote]R86 Was Isabella Rossellini a Seventies Supermodel?

No, she came along in the 80s. And at a rather advanced age (for that industry), being in her late 20s already.

[quote]R84 Taylor Swift reminds me of Patti Hansen.

Taylor Swift reminds me of a pile of dog shit.

"Wasn't Christina Ferrare married to John Delorean? Prob great coke access!"

Yeah, she was married to him. I guess she thought she'd had it made, but then he got arrested and there was a big scandal. I remember her doing some tv interview with somebody (Barbara Walters? Rona Barrett?) where she said he was "framed" and that they "prayed" together. She was so full of crap.

Ron Mael from Sparks used to do some modeling when he was young.

70s and 80s models seem so mannish compared to these days. They look like drag queens.

70's era models still inspire modern day designers like Hedi Slimane who is the creative director at Celine.

R94 well early 70s late 60s, and concentration camp starvation.

For the Marie Helvin fans (and un-fans) here. She had this perfect body that she would hide with baggy clothes and not so great posture. Maybe she was just shy, and this was before she became a model. I always thought of her as this flat chested, skinny ragamuffin thing. She was always quirky and odd, with overdone eye makeup and a gypsy vibe for clothing. One day we were high and hiking to a waterfall in Hawaii. She took off her clothes and exposed what was underneath. Under her floppy clothing she had the most perfect body and breasts I had ever seen. You know how some will say that a person has champagne glass breasts? I was so taken aback by the perfection of her body that I gasped. It's no wonder she became famous. It was her destiny IMO. She just needed to know the right people and it seems this was to be David Bailey.

The models, especially the male models at r94 are uncomfortable to watch, they’re so skinny.

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Cheryl Tiegs for Sears in 1981. With a pre-fame Luther Vandross singing the jingle.

R93, no 70s / 80s era model EVER looked as "mannish" as the masculine, hatchet-faced bitches that they've sent STOMPING down the runways over the last 20 years! Especially from around 2000 to 2015!

At least the 70s girls were mostly natural, rhinoplasties aside. The models of today are all celebrity offspring who bought their faces, and the fake cheekbones and jaws and chins etc. make them all look boringly the same.

AGREE R101. Speaking of which, "supermodels" Patti Hansen and Keith Richards' offspring are nothing write home about IMO.

R73 Oh shut up Cheryl, you old scarecrow has-been. You wish your ugly face was a fraction as beautiful as Ashley Graham's. Too bad you never actually enjoyed a whole meal in your entire life. P.S. Nobody asked your opinion and you seem as smart as a box of rocks.

Patti's nose wasn't so great.

Did she have it bobbed?

Taylor Swift resemblance.

That is a pretty remarkable resemblance R106.

Patti has freckles all over her face and body 🤮

R103, that woman is stunning. Wowza.

[quote]r109 that woman is stunning. Wowza.

She’s the first plus sized model to be on the cover of Sports Illustrated.

She was originally discovered by model scouts in a Nebraska shopping mall - so I guess there’s hope for all of us.

[quote] R108 Patti has freckles all over her face and body

Well, that’s what makeup’s for.

freckly people's freckles are brought out by the sun

The freckles only showed when editors wanted them to. It gave Hansen variety.

A cute Kim Alexis cover from 1978. She said years later that she got sick during this shoot from posing in front of the fan/wind blower for hours.

R103 it looks pretty perfect to me...

R115 isn’t she very religious now?

R116, Oh yeah. Big time Fundie! But she was gorgeous in her day.

Now that I think about it, even though she started in the 70s, she would probably be considered more of an 80s model.

Kim Alexis was very, very pretty... and had no personality to speak of.

Her eyes are forever blank. Almost as if she were lobotomized. I forget who it was, but one fashion editor found her almost too stupid to work with.

Gia fans will remember this. I forgot the details but didn't Kim Alexis run off the set crying during a shoot, because Gia kept hitting on her? LOL.

I don't mean to make light of sexual harassment, but this just sounds comical for some reason.

Was it Kim Alexis that had Rod Stewart’s kid?

No, that was Kelly Emberg. Rod certainly has a type.

Don't forget Rachel Hunter.

Rachel Hunter is not from the 70s.

Dayle Haddon looking disco-licious.

R124 I didn't say she was. I only mentioned her because she was another of Rod's model-wives.

Beverly Johnson was the first black woman to appear on the cover of Vogue.

She was also raped by Bill Cosby.

Beverly used to scare men because she was always "no fucks given".

Iman is petite and very soft spoken. Both gorgeous but very different women.

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It got her a second career in reality TV.

I loved Patti Hansen. Among the "all-American, girl-next-door" blondes that dominated the scene in the mid-to-late 70s, she was the one who had the most range. Disco glam, slutty rocker chick, high-class eurotrash whore...she could do it all! And this "comeback" Vogue Italia cover was a stunner.

Are you taken with Gwyneth too?

Bitten Knudsen, Cosmopolitan 1978

Oof that blonde hair is ugly @r132

Yes, it prefigures Eighties trashy.

Miss Dayle Haddon is 100% BEAUTIFUL 💯

R127, he didn't rape her, but probably wanted to. He drugged her, she realized what was happening and confronted him, and he sent her home in a taxi.

Did Dayle try for a movie career?

Patti Hansen is also very religious now, a born again Christian who doesn't believe in premarital sex. She and Keith met at the right time in her life.

Really r138. Wonder what flipped in her brain. I know we change and grow up. But, her reversal is a little too much. I’m guessing her daughters ain’t virgins

Patti had bladder cancer, maybe Stage 4, that she was very lucky to beat and it may be related to that, as well as to her upbringing. She has done interviews to educate on symptoms and early detection and treatment. Apparently, she only went to the doctor after she began peeing blood at the end of one of the Stones tours.

BAH! There was nothing "super" about them!

[quote]r137 Did Dayle try for a movie career? —Margaux

For about 5 minutes, she did.

Have any of you seen Miss Dayle Haddon as... Spermula?

Our Jessie never reached supermodel status, but she fared a little better in movies than Dayle “Spermula” Haddon.

Our Jessie never reached supermodel status, but she fared a little better in movies than Dayle “Spermula” Haddon.

Suck it, Spermula!

I guess Dayle Haddon didn't fuck Robert Evans.

Lauren, Margaux, Cybill, Rene, Dayle... nice try ladies.

That cutout is rather pointless when he you had no tits, Jess.

You know, those pics (and Jess’ lack of breasts in them) do reinforce how thin models are expected to keep themselves.

Later when she was at a normal, healthy weight, she definitely had boobs.

I seem to recall enjoying Janice’s reality show years ago. What was it, a model contest or something?

R150, well, the rumor is, Dino De Laurentiis wanted her fleshier for King Kong, so he told her to gain 20 lbs and paid for new breasts. Just a year prior, she was nearly anorexic. Look at that big head and sunken chest.

R151, The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency.

Dino cast Dayle Haddon in "Flash Gordon" but gave the role to Melody Anderson at the last minute. Dayle wouldn't swallow?

Beverly Johnson had a short-lived movie career as well. She starred in something called "Ashanti" in 1979, with an all-star ensemble cast that included Michael Caine, Omar Sharif & William Holden.

[quote]r50 the rumor is, Dino De Laurentiis wanted her fleshier for King Kong, so he told her to gain 20 lbs and paid for new breasts.

I could be wrong, of course, but Lange doesn’t seem like the type to agree to a boob job to break into movies. And if the producer had demanded implants, you’d think he’d pick bigger ones.

Actually, no. Giant implants were an 80s/90s thing.

R154, Dino decided that Dayle was too skinny and not sexy enough. He thought the same thing about Lange when he first laid eyes on her. But she glowed in her screen test and gave her a chance. Perhaps Dayle didn't have the IT factor.

On another note, Lauren Hutton had moderate success in the movie business (The Gambler, American Gigolo). But, I guess she never really set the world on fire as a leading lady.

Lange's ALL THAT JAZZ co-star, Sandahl Bergman, had small implants.

Beverly Johnson also had a short-lived "singing" career. In 1979 she released the Disco/Funk/R&B LP "Don't Lose The Feeling on Buddah Records. The singles were 'Don't Lose The Feeling (Theme From Ashanti)' and 'Can You Feel It'.

I owned this album at one time. Miss Johnson isn't much of a singer, but surprisingly she was given a quality production job. The album as a whole isn't memorable but the two singles are above-average R&B/Disco numbers. They could have been contenders if Beverly was able to sing even a little bit. But she couldn't.

Wasn't Hutton the "older woman" in GIGOLO? She was already too old for leading lady and had too much competition for older woman roles.

'Don't Lose The Feeling (Theme From Ashanti)' by Beverly Johnson

Charo also got a high quality disco production on Salsoul Records but she could sing either.

'Don't Run For Cover' by Beverly Johnson. A pretty good LP cut that wasn't a single.

R163, absolutely! I guess quality productions were ust the order of the day back then. All those seasoned studio musicians, strings, horns, background vocalists, etc. And Charo's 'Dance A Little Bit Closer' & her version of 'The Theme From Love Boat' kick ass! Disco classics!

Madleen Kane had model looks but she wasn't ever a thing in New York, bar her disco career, was she?

I recently watched Lauren Hutton in the goofy, but entertaining Burt Reynolds flick "Gator" from 1976.

Yes R165. Madleen Kane was a model before her music career. She even lived at The Fords' home at one point. I couldn't find any of her modeling shots, but she was a stunning woman. Another weak singer that got excellent production work on her releases.

Kane had a husband svengali. I think she already started recording ("singing") by age 20.

Cosmo covergirl Naomi Sims.

A stunning Jerry Hall Vogue cover from 1976.

I wonder how much she'll make when old Rupert Murdoch kicks the bucket. LOL.

Veruschka was more of a 60s Superstar in the fashion industry but did quite a lot of work in the 70s. Although I think her look was more suited to the 60s, she's still an extremely striking woman.

This movie captured the feel perfectly at the time. Lots of 80's esq models type shots. One of the few movies that tried to show what the fashion industry was like behind the runway. Wind fans were a must! If you haven't seen it, really fun nostalgia including the music.

^^ the model who played Lulu was actually a good actress. She appeared opposite Robert De Niro.

Karen Bjornson

Jennifer O'Neill (who transitioned from model to movie star in 1971 with [italic]Summer of '42[/italic]) is probably the all around most beautiful woman I've ever seen. She married 8 times and then became a born again christian, though... so not entirely stable!

O'Neill in 1971

O'Neill in 1973

Kim Basinger (1978)

She was a New York model for about 5 years.

Kim Basinger (1975)

I've never liked the balance of Basinger's features.

The light/no eyebrows look did her no favors.

Unfortunately, Our Miss Brooke was being hawked by her rapacious mother for... dubious jobs in 1975.

Moment of Silence - -

[quote]r181 I've never liked the balance of Basinger's features... The light/no eyebrows look did her no favors.

She's interesting because she looks different when photographed by different people. But when she is done up right, she's incredibly alluring.

Her Playboy cover is practically an oil painting. She looks like a blonde Jaclyn Smith.

Donna Mitchell

You know, I just spent 20 minutes looking for pics of Donna Mitchell in her role as the mother in law on THE GOOD WIFE... and it turns out all this time it was Mary Beth Piel (!!)

They look kind of alike as they've aged, don't they (???)

Older Donna Mitchell

I got in a funny conversation one time in college with a classmate about Kim Basinger. I was out, so gay thing not an issue with my friends but when her name came up I mentioned she was the only woman I found so attractive I could have sex with her. The guy I was talking too said that makes senses, he didn't find her attractive because she looked like a man with that strong jaw.

I caught this juicy little tidbit on (Johnny Carson's second wife) Joanne Carson's IMDB Page:

"Unsuccessfully pursued a lesbian relationship with a pre-fame Kim Basinger, who briefly lived at Joanne's house after moving to Los Angeles."

Anyone else ever heard anything about this?

Alec Baldwin has got queenier with age. It would be funny if Baldwin and Basinger went under the radar when poor dear sad old Gere and Crawford felt compelled to take out an ad in the newspaper to declare their heterosexuality.

Kim gives Dame Edna a special gift:

R190 never heard that. Sure is interesting. Hope someone else knows something.

If I were a lesbian in the 1970s, I'd like to have been kept by Joanne Carson.

Twiggy did some modeling in the 1970's.

More Twiggy

Now this is the Madleen Kane cut

Twiggy was so bland on America's Next Top Model. I don't think she had a single insightful thing to say in three years - it was always, "I think she's quite elegant," or, "I simply don't like her."

She is absolutely hideous in R195's pic.

Ms. Grace Beverly Jones gets my vote.

I remember twiggy on that show Princesses with Fran Drescher. (It sucked)

Not into the blond/Sears Catalog model look of Cheryl Tiegs, Jerry Hall, Christie Brinkley, or Lisa Taylor, but I respect their game.

I like the boho faces and personalities. YSL muses Loulou de la Falaise (RIP) and Betty Catroux, for instance. They walked a fine line between aristocratic lineage and Euro sleaze, and their photos had a homoerotic undertone that you didn't see with the cornfed/catalog types.

YSL, Loulou and Betty Catroux were photographed so often together during that decade, it came off a little ménage à trois.

[quote]Another time I brushed past Lauren Hutton on Fifth Avenue. Tall and imposing, hair, a real presence.

Unless you are very short or Lauren was in heels, she was never considered tall. She's 5'7", which is not at all tall for a fashion model. I've worked with models who are 5'10" and taller.

Donna Mitchell went on to become quite a successful actress, mostly working onTV. She was on Law & Order several times.

[quote]Iman is petite and very soft spoken. Both gorgeous but very different women.

Iman, at 5'9" is certainly not "petite".

Where do you guys get this shit?

Celia Hammond (discovered by the photographer Norman Parkinson) was technically a creature of the London mod-era 1960's (b. 1941) but had some extraordinary high-fashion photos well into the 1970's when she was over 30 years of age. She was an early and vocal anti-fur activist and has remained engaged in animal rights issues over the years.

I'm surprised she didn't hook up with Paul McCartney, with whom she seems simpatico (who knows? maybe she did).

[quote]r204 Donna Mitchell went on to become quite a successful actress, mostly working onTV. She was on Law & Order several times.

She played the heroine’s friend Joan in THE BELL JAR (1979)

After Loulou died, Betty Catroux wrote a wonderful tribute to her in Harper's Bazaar about their years-long friendship. What a wonderful tribute. I'm happily surprised that two women traveling in that sphere, 1970's high-fashion and all the decadence it implied, would have had such a long-lasting bond.

Someone should do a Betty-and-Loulou biopic. The Oscar is theirs to lose.

R203 Really? I'm a shortish 5'9" but man, she radiated TALL. Maybe it was the hair, or the fur coat, or just the energy.

Are you one of those gay guys who is focused on women?

Marie Helvin

More Marie Helvin

Beverly Johnson was my favorite.

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Gia..gorgeous train wreck of a model.