Forgotten "Top" Models

Ah, when white woman and their beauty aesthetic ruled the world! I think it’s the only cultural that glorified skeletal women.

Oo I spelled her name wrong. Must be those sharp joints cutting my eyes.

Is that image at r2 her? If so, she appears to be anorexic. The swimsuit hanging off of her skeletal frame is revolting.

yes that's Van Ravenousstein. 😱

Do you have any favourite forgotten top models?

Speaking of too thin, the Forgotten Top Model Victoire Macon Dauxerre wrote a decent book about it.

Jean Shrimpton

Jean Shrimpton - is she generally forgotten by the hoi polloi? Certainly not by the cognoscenti.

This diva right here:

Appollonnia van Ravenstein sounds like the name of a Saturday Night Live character that Jan Hooks might've played. She even looks like Jan Hooks.

Eve Salvail - the girl with the dragon tattoo

I see Ariana Huffington's face, on Appalachia van Ravenousstein.

I thought Apollonia was a Prince protégée

R6 Jean Shrimpton is far from forgotten, they even made a film about her and David Bailey a few years back.

Samantha Jones was a top model with lots of vogue covers. She even had a small role in the Hepburn movie Wait Until Dark. I wonder WHET her?

Well, 13 years ago. We'll Take Manhattan

Shrimpton like Jane Birkin and Marianne Faithful and Anita Pallenberg is a 60s icon. Unlikely to be forgotten by people interested in that era of pop culture. As long as the Stones and the Beatles are of interest so too will Shrimpton and Twiggy and Julie Christie… be.

The photo in the first post looks like an old lady.

OP is she the lady that had an affair with Jack Nicholson and she and Anjelica Houston fell out over it? I seem to remember some sort of gossip like that.

Von LanternJaw

Pam Dawber! If people remember her at all nowadays its because she's the wife of Mark Harmon. But at one point she was a big supermodel who then transferred her success there into an acting career.

Suzy Parker

R17 something like that. Was it an affair or did Jack just fuck her and toss her aside?

R20 I know I need to welcoming. Welcome! Did you notice the criterion in the thread title?

Veruschka

'The name is great, the face less so. Also, she was skeletally thin.' pretty much describes 95% of the model work force, op.

R23 not forgotten. I think when most people think Of the 60s they remember her scene between her and David Hemings in Blow Up. As long as that film gets seen and brought up I. Pop culture, she won’t be forgotten.

Her name alone probably got her work.

Tony Spielli

This thread went to hell quickly.

"Cindy Crawford"

Rosie Vela

People who were around at the time would remember her, r25. Nobody born after 1970 has any idea who she was.

OP's picture reminds me of the first time I did my own eye shadow for a skank drag party. But THIS attempt was on the cover of Vogue? Oy!

Yes, my criterion was vague. Forgotten by whom? Oh well let's have fun anyway.

I beg to differ. Plenty of people born after the 70s have an interest in 60s pop culture and would know these icons

R31 well, British Vogue.

Apollonia personified the expression foot in mouth.

Kim Alexis! (r28's post reminded me).

Kathy Ireland was always a head scratcher for me - I never found her remotely attractive. In fact, I found her downright ugly.

I suppose it was mostly the body.

Sunny Hartnett

Yeah on Rosie Vela. She tried her hand at music. Released some really good stuff but it didn't catch on. She was one of the most beautiful models though.

Lisa Taylor seems to have faded from general memory. When I was in HS this photo absolutely riveted me and made me start looking at "high fashion".

Kathy Ireland was in the first wave of "sports models". They weren't really runway fashion models.

[quote]I beg to differ. Plenty of people born after the 70s have an interest in 60s pop culture and would know these icons

People who have an interest in 60s pop culture are going to be familiar with lots of pop culture figures, r33. That isn't a forgotten person.

Esmé Marshall

Do people under 50 (and not on Data Lounge) remember Cheryl Tiegs?

I think plenty of people would still know Veruschka if only for her name. Same with Marisa Berenson… they still turn up to things. I think models like Samantha Jones though, she just sort of disappeared.

r40 the name of the thread is "Forgotten "Top" Models" - not "Forgotten Top Runway Models."

Several other models mentioned on this thread were not runway models either.

R20, Suzy Parker sure does look a lot like Tina Louise there.

Ingrid Thulin

Ooos I meant that Ingrid Boulting.

r44 - I'm 55 years old and had never heard of Veruschka, so I googled her.

This is the first photo that came up. YIKES!

Here's a similar thread that I enjoyed: Models no one remembers but you.

R49 she and Donyale Luna and a few others were unforgettable looking. There aren’t many today that you can say that for.

Dovima is not truly forgotten, but she has never really gotten her due either. This photo haunts me.

R52 that's one of the most iconic fashion photos of all time.

Before she was Agent 99, Barbara Feldon worked as a print and commercial pitchwoman.

Here she is with her liar/playboy husband, Lucien. Her book is great. Messy marriage.

We're the only eldergays who remember Ypir.

I guess I put two criteria. Both forgotten and "Top" model cred.

[Quote] Ah, when white woman and their beauty aesthetic ruled the world! I think it’s the only cultural that glorified skeletal women.

Hmmm if only we knew who most of the designers setting these trends and hiring these models were

Jenny Shimizu.

Oh wait a minute. Jenny has just been remembered on DL.

[quote]Kathy Ireland was always a head scratcher for me - I never found her remotely attractive. In fact, I found her downright ugly.

Many straight men adored Kathy Ireland.

Nikki Taylor.

She and Dionne Warwick starred in the same season of Celebrity Apprentice. Dionne was being a little difficult and Nikki started talking down to Dionne (condescending). Dionne then said, "I got your number, hussy."

Stephanie Seymour

Vanessa Duve

Millie

70's model and actress, Erin Gray.

Carol Alt

What hideous makeup at op

OP's model is butt fucking ugly and has quite the schnozz on her.

She must have gotten her career bought for her by a rich Daddy.

I grew up in the Netherlands. As a gayling of 10-11 or so, I thought Ms. Van Ravenstein was the most pretentious woman I'd ever seen on TV in my native country. Her speaking voice and accent were extremely affected (though she might just have been aristocratic). The country was always quite proud of her, model Frederique van der Wal, Xaviera Hollander (the "Happy Hooker"), and later Doutzen Kroes and Famke Janssen as "Dutch beauties" who had "made it big in America." They'd appear on national TV talk shows and the hosts would fawn over them. They're less eager to claim Yolanda Hadid, I think.

Well, Famke Janssen IS fabulous.

Famke was absolutely stunning on Star Trek: Next Generation.

The AIDS one.

Gia will be remembered forever.

Pam Gidley was so damn pretty. Loved her. She died at 52, for unknown reasons. Very sad.

^ I meant to say, "undisclosed," not "unknown." Sheesh.

Fun fact: Nikki Taylor has been a Talbots catalogue model for some time. Haven't seen her there lately, though.

She made their twee fake country club shit look pretty wearable. She has been through a lot, and seems like a good egg.

She looks like the inspiration for the Patsy Stone character.

R49, Veruschka was a big time model who emerged in the mid to late '60s, along with Twiggy and Penelope Tree. These gals weren't conventionally beautiful, but they were so cool and ultamodern in their uniqueness and oddities.

Veruschka was over 6' tall and lanky and was all limbs like a giraffe. Fashion photographers took note of her eccentricities and put her in off-the-wall creations and shot her in striking poses that have become iconic. She was often photographed in furs, feathers, shells, and animal prints or sometimes in just body paint and placed in exotic locales like deserts and jungles like an animal in the wild.

Donyale Luna. Arguably the first Black top model, being on the cover of the British Vogue. Huge in Western Europe in the late 60's/early 70's where she was also an actress. Died relatively young, at the age 33 from a heroin overdose.

Tara Blanks

Karen Alexander, underrated stunner from the nineties. Seems like she’s having a career renaissance now…

Karen Mulder was absolutely beautiful and deserved to be among the Top Five supermodels of the day. However, she was troubled and didn't have the fortitude to withstand an industry of exploiters and predators.

Beverly Johnson. 71 and still looking good. Wig is too much, though. New husband doesn't look appealing.

OP’s posted pic reminds me of Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

Was Beverly Johnson the model that was with Chris (Mr. Big) Noth for a while?

Yes, R84…and he allegedly beat the shit out of her.

[quote]Pam Gidley was so damn pretty. Loved her. She died at 52, for unknown reasons. Very sad.

I remember her from Seventeen Magazine in the '70s

[quote]Karen Alexain Gnder, underrated stunner from the nineties. Seems like she’s having a career renaissance now…

She is my age; I remember her from the 80s Glamour magazine

R80 That's a gorgeous Vogue cover.

Renee Simonsen:

Nadège du Bospertus

Cindy Crawfords Legion of Doom doppelgänger, Shana Zadrick.

East African models seem to kill two birds with one stone - inclusion of black models with “acceptable” brown skin and Eurocentric features. Alek Wek was a unicorn.

Marpessa (Hennink), who's Dutch Just like Apollonia

Walk like Nadège! Gorgeous

What was that house tune about Nadège's walk? Anyone remember?

Marpessa another great walk.

If we're going to mention Alek Wek, her Elle cover must be included.

Pam Gidley is dead??!!

More Marpessa

Marpessa improved a lot from the early calving klein runway.

IN the yellow and black tiger? leopard? print, when she moves the jacket, its hallucinating her walk back to the curtain.

How insane that Marpessa was considered "too exotic" by the Eileen Ford Agency. She must be one of the most elegant models who ever walked the runway.

Father is Dutch / Surinamese eg african. Eileen Ford was a cunt. I knew her and several others. Frances Grill was contemporary and so was her agency Click.

R100 those Calvin collection clips and that Versace collection clip with the amazing neon yellow mixed animal print outfit are actually both from the same era 1991/ 1992.

Marpessa had a great walk from pretty much the get go of her career. It’s just that Calvin always wanted his models to have a natural, less exaggerated style on the runway and so she was toning things down to please the client (him).

Versace, along with most all other European designers, was the opposite and wanted the girls to really vamp it up and “perform” on the runway. Which Marpessa could do with amazing effect. I agree with you, her walk in that yellow outfit is mesmerizing.

Didn’t Eileen reject Grace Jones? Or told her that her bold African features would be better appreciated in Europe?

R104 thanks for the correction on date contexts

Wanakee. Good friends with the late Keith Haring. Mostly a print model. Impossible bone structure.

She’s a minister now.

I know someone who was a Ford model circa the '90s. She was mixed race.

Wanakee Pugh was a Top Model?

Shelley Hack, anyone?

Kelly Emberg

Good one, R111

Rula Lenska!

Evelyn Nesbit, The Girl on the Red Velvet Swing.

Peggy Dillard.