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Forgotten "Top" Models

Appolonia van Raverstein, 70s model and jet-setter. The name is great, the face less so. Also, she was skeletally thin.

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by Anonymousreply 115October 3, 2024 2:41 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 1September 26, 2024 7:44 AM

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

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by Anonymousreply 2September 26, 2024 8:03 AM

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

by Anonymousreply 3September 26, 2024 8:14 AM

yes that's Van Ravenousstein. 😱

by Anonymousreply 4September 26, 2024 8:44 AM

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.

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by Anonymousreply 5September 26, 2024 8:50 AM

Jean Shrimpton

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by Anonymousreply 6September 26, 2024 9:01 AM

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

by Anonymousreply 7September 26, 2024 4:20 PM

This diva right here:

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by Anonymousreply 8September 26, 2024 4:27 PM

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.

by Anonymousreply 9September 26, 2024 4:28 PM

Eve Salvail - the girl with the dragon tattoo

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by Anonymousreply 10September 26, 2024 4:40 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 11September 26, 2024 4:40 PM

I thought Apollonia was a Prince protégée

by Anonymousreply 12September 26, 2024 4:53 PM

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?

by Anonymousreply 13September 26, 2024 6:21 PM

Well, 13 years ago. We'll Take Manhattan

by Anonymousreply 14September 26, 2024 7:56 PM

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.

by Anonymousreply 15September 26, 2024 8:02 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 16September 26, 2024 8:08 PM

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.

by Anonymousreply 17September 26, 2024 8:11 PM

Von LanternJaw

by Anonymousreply 18September 26, 2024 8:12 PM

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.

by Anonymousreply 19September 26, 2024 8:13 PM

Suzy Parker

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by Anonymousreply 20September 26, 2024 8:14 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 21September 26, 2024 8:14 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 22September 26, 2024 8:16 PM

Veruschka

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by Anonymousreply 23September 26, 2024 8:27 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 24September 26, 2024 8:29 PM

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.

by Anonymousreply 25September 26, 2024 8:30 PM

Her name alone probably got her work.

by Anonymousreply 26September 26, 2024 8:33 PM

Tony Spielli

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by Anonymousreply 27September 26, 2024 8:36 PM

This thread went to hell quickly.

"Cindy Crawford"

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by Anonymousreply 28September 26, 2024 8:36 PM

Rosie Vela

by Anonymousreply 29September 26, 2024 8:38 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 30September 26, 2024 8:39 PM

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!

by Anonymousreply 31September 26, 2024 8:40 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 32September 26, 2024 8:40 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 33September 26, 2024 8:41 PM

R31 well, British Vogue.

by Anonymousreply 34September 26, 2024 8:41 PM

Apollonia personified the expression foot in mouth.

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by Anonymousreply 35September 26, 2024 8:42 PM

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.

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by Anonymousreply 36September 26, 2024 8:42 PM

Sunny Hartnett

by Anonymousreply 37September 26, 2024 8:43 PM

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.

by Anonymousreply 38September 26, 2024 8:43 PM

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".

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by Anonymousreply 39September 26, 2024 8:44 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 40September 26, 2024 8:46 PM

[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.

by Anonymousreply 41September 26, 2024 8:46 PM

Esmé Marshall

by Anonymousreply 42September 26, 2024 8:46 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 43September 26, 2024 8:48 PM

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.

by Anonymousreply 44September 26, 2024 8:48 PM

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.

by Anonymousreply 45September 26, 2024 8:55 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 46September 26, 2024 8:55 PM

Ingrid Thulin

by Anonymousreply 47September 26, 2024 8:56 PM

Ooos I meant that Ingrid Boulting.

by Anonymousreply 48September 26, 2024 8:57 PM

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!

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by Anonymousreply 49September 26, 2024 8:58 PM

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

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by Anonymousreply 50September 26, 2024 9:00 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 51September 26, 2024 9:01 PM

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

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by Anonymousreply 52September 26, 2024 9:02 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 53September 26, 2024 9:13 PM

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.

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by Anonymousreply 54September 26, 2024 9:13 PM

We're the only eldergays who remember Ypir.

by Anonymousreply 55September 26, 2024 9:15 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 56September 26, 2024 9:16 PM

[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

by Anonymousreply 57September 26, 2024 9:18 PM

Jenny Shimizu.

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

by Anonymousreply 58September 27, 2024 2:17 PM

[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.

by Anonymousreply 59September 27, 2024 5:11 PM

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."

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by Anonymousreply 60September 27, 2024 6:34 PM

Stephanie Seymour

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by Anonymousreply 61September 27, 2024 6:58 PM

Vanessa Duve

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by Anonymousreply 62September 27, 2024 7:16 PM

Millie

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by Anonymousreply 63September 27, 2024 7:22 PM

70's model and actress, Erin Gray.

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by Anonymousreply 64September 27, 2024 7:37 PM

Carol Alt

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by Anonymousreply 65September 27, 2024 7:51 PM

What hideous makeup at op

by Anonymousreply 66September 27, 2024 8:10 PM

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.

by Anonymousreply 67September 27, 2024 8:18 PM

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.

by Anonymousreply 68September 27, 2024 8:26 PM

Well, Famke Janssen IS fabulous.

by Anonymousreply 69September 27, 2024 8:30 PM

Famke was absolutely stunning on Star Trek: Next Generation.

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by Anonymousreply 70September 27, 2024 8:34 PM

The AIDS one.

by Anonymousreply 71September 28, 2024 5:17 PM

Gia will be remembered forever.

by Anonymousreply 72September 28, 2024 5:46 PM

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

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by Anonymousreply 73September 28, 2024 5:48 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 74September 28, 2024 6:03 PM

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.

by Anonymousreply 75September 28, 2024 6:43 PM

She looks like the inspiration for the Patsy Stone character.

by Anonymousreply 76September 28, 2024 7:08 PM

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.

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by Anonymousreply 77September 28, 2024 7:31 PM

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.

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by Anonymousreply 78September 28, 2024 7:46 PM

Tara Blanks

by Anonymousreply 79September 28, 2024 7:57 PM

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

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by Anonymousreply 80September 28, 2024 8:01 PM

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.

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by Anonymousreply 81September 28, 2024 8:04 PM

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

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by Anonymousreply 82September 28, 2024 8:06 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 83September 28, 2024 8:31 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 84September 29, 2024 5:56 AM

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

by Anonymousreply 85September 29, 2024 6:28 AM

[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

by Anonymousreply 86September 30, 2024 5:44 PM

[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

by Anonymousreply 87September 30, 2024 5:47 PM

R80 That's a gorgeous Vogue cover.

by Anonymousreply 88September 30, 2024 5:47 PM

Renee Simonsen:

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by Anonymousreply 89September 30, 2024 5:59 PM

Nadège du Bospertus

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by Anonymousreply 90September 30, 2024 6:01 PM

Cindy Crawfords Legion of Doom doppelgänger, Shana Zadrick.

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by Anonymousreply 91September 30, 2024 6:08 PM

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.

by Anonymousreply 92September 30, 2024 6:09 PM

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

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by Anonymousreply 93September 30, 2024 7:13 PM

Walk like Nadège! Gorgeous

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by Anonymousreply 94September 30, 2024 7:34 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 95September 30, 2024 7:37 PM

Marpessa another great walk.

by Anonymousreply 96September 30, 2024 7:42 PM

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

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by Anonymousreply 97September 30, 2024 7:44 PM

Pam Gidley is dead??!!

by Anonymousreply 98September 30, 2024 8:07 PM

More Marpessa

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by Anonymousreply 99September 30, 2024 9:05 PM

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.

by Anonymousreply 100September 30, 2024 11:16 PM

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.

by Anonymousreply 101September 30, 2024 11:21 PM

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.

by Anonymousreply 102September 30, 2024 11:32 PM
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by Anonymousreply 103September 30, 2024 11:33 PM

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.

by Anonymousreply 104September 30, 2024 11:45 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 105October 1, 2024 12:20 AM

R104 thanks for the correction on date contexts

by Anonymousreply 106October 1, 2024 3:03 PM

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

She’s a minister now.

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by Anonymousreply 107October 2, 2024 5:36 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 108October 2, 2024 5:39 PM

Wanakee Pugh was a Top Model?

by Anonymousreply 109October 2, 2024 6:07 PM

Shelley Hack, anyone?

by Anonymousreply 110October 2, 2024 6:42 PM

Kelly Emberg

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by Anonymousreply 111October 2, 2024 6:52 PM

Good one, R111

by Anonymousreply 112October 2, 2024 6:55 PM

Rula Lenska!

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by Anonymousreply 113October 3, 2024 2:59 AM

Evelyn Nesbit, The Girl on the Red Velvet Swing.

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by Anonymousreply 114October 3, 2024 3:49 AM

Peggy Dillard.

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by Anonymousreply 115October 3, 2024 2:41 PM
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