Appolonia van Raverstein, 70s model and jet-setter. The name is great, the face less so. Also, she was skeletally thin.
Ah, when white woman and their beauty aesthetic ruled the world! I think it’s the only cultural that glorified skeletal women.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | September 26, 2024 7:44 AM |
Oo I spelled her name wrong. Must be those sharp joints cutting my eyes.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | September 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 Anonymous | reply 3 | September 26, 2024 8:14 AM |
yes that's Van Ravenousstein. 😱
by Anonymous | reply 4 | September 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.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | September 26, 2024 8:50 AM |
Jean Shrimpton - is she generally forgotten by the hoi polloi? Certainly not by the cognoscenti.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | September 26, 2024 4:20 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 Anonymous | reply 9 | September 26, 2024 4:28 PM |
Eve Salvail - the girl with the dragon tattoo
by Anonymous | reply 10 | September 26, 2024 4:40 PM |
I see Ariana Huffington's face, on Appalachia van Ravenousstein.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | September 26, 2024 4:40 PM |
I thought Apollonia was a Prince protégée
by Anonymous | reply 12 | September 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 Anonymous | reply 13 | September 26, 2024 6:21 PM |
Well, 13 years ago. We'll Take Manhattan
by Anonymous | reply 14 | September 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 Anonymous | reply 15 | September 26, 2024 8:02 PM |
The photo in the first post looks like an old lady.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | September 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 Anonymous | reply 17 | September 26, 2024 8:11 PM |
Von LanternJaw
by Anonymous | reply 18 | September 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 Anonymous | reply 19 | September 26, 2024 8:13 PM |
R17 something like that. Was it an affair or did Jack just fuck her and toss her aside?
by Anonymous | reply 21 | September 26, 2024 8:14 PM |
R20 I know I need to welcoming. Welcome! Did you notice the criterion in the thread title?
by Anonymous | reply 22 | September 26, 2024 8:16 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 Anonymous | reply 24 | September 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 Anonymous | reply 25 | September 26, 2024 8:30 PM |
Her name alone probably got her work.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | September 26, 2024 8:33 PM |
This thread went to hell quickly.
"Cindy Crawford"
by Anonymous | reply 28 | September 26, 2024 8:36 PM |
Rosie Vela
by Anonymous | reply 29 | September 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 Anonymous | reply 30 | September 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 Anonymous | reply 31 | September 26, 2024 8:40 PM |
Yes, my criterion was vague. Forgotten by whom? Oh well let's have fun anyway.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | September 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 Anonymous | reply 33 | September 26, 2024 8:41 PM |
R31 well, British Vogue.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | September 26, 2024 8:41 PM |
Apollonia personified the expression foot in mouth.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | September 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.
by Anonymous | reply 36 | September 26, 2024 8:42 PM |
Sunny Hartnett
by Anonymous | reply 37 | September 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 Anonymous | reply 38 | September 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".
by Anonymous | reply 39 | September 26, 2024 8:44 PM |
Kathy Ireland was in the first wave of "sports models". They weren't really runway fashion models.
by Anonymous | reply 40 | September 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 Anonymous | reply 41 | September 26, 2024 8:46 PM |
Esmé Marshall
by Anonymous | reply 42 | September 26, 2024 8:46 PM |
Do people under 50 (and not on Data Lounge) remember Cheryl Tiegs?
by Anonymous | reply 43 | September 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 Anonymous | reply 44 | September 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 Anonymous | reply 45 | September 26, 2024 8:55 PM |
R20, Suzy Parker sure does look a lot like Tina Louise there.
by Anonymous | reply 46 | September 26, 2024 8:55 PM |
Ingrid Thulin
by Anonymous | reply 47 | September 26, 2024 8:56 PM |
Ooos I meant that Ingrid Boulting.
by Anonymous | reply 48 | September 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!
by Anonymous | reply 49 | September 26, 2024 8:58 PM |
Here's a similar thread that I enjoyed: Models no one remembers but you.
by Anonymous | reply 50 | September 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 Anonymous | reply 51 | September 26, 2024 9:01 PM |
Dovima is not truly forgotten, but she has never really gotten her due either. This photo haunts me.
by Anonymous | reply 52 | September 26, 2024 9:02 PM |
R52 that's one of the most iconic fashion photos of all time.
by Anonymous | reply 53 | September 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.
by Anonymous | reply 54 | September 26, 2024 9:13 PM |
We're the only eldergays who remember Ypir.
by Anonymous | reply 55 | September 26, 2024 9:15 PM |
I guess I put two criteria. Both forgotten and "Top" model cred.
by Anonymous | reply 56 | September 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 Anonymous | reply 57 | September 26, 2024 9:18 PM |
Jenny Shimizu.
Oh wait a minute. Jenny has just been remembered on DL.
by Anonymous | reply 58 | September 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 Anonymous | reply 59 | September 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."
by Anonymous | reply 60 | September 27, 2024 6:34 PM |
What hideous makeup at op
by Anonymous | reply 66 | September 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 Anonymous | reply 67 | September 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 Anonymous | reply 68 | September 27, 2024 8:26 PM |
Well, Famke Janssen IS fabulous.
by Anonymous | reply 69 | September 27, 2024 8:30 PM |
Famke was absolutely stunning on Star Trek: Next Generation.
by Anonymous | reply 70 | September 27, 2024 8:34 PM |
The AIDS one.
by Anonymous | reply 71 | September 28, 2024 5:17 PM |
Gia will be remembered forever.
by Anonymous | reply 72 | September 28, 2024 5:46 PM |
Pam Gidley was so damn pretty. Loved her. She died at 52, for unknown reasons. Very sad.
by Anonymous | reply 73 | September 28, 2024 5:48 PM |
^ I meant to say, "undisclosed," not "unknown." Sheesh.
by Anonymous | reply 74 | September 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 Anonymous | reply 75 | September 28, 2024 6:43 PM |
She looks like the inspiration for the Patsy Stone character.
by Anonymous | reply 76 | September 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.
by Anonymous | reply 77 | September 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.
by Anonymous | reply 78 | September 28, 2024 7:46 PM |
Tara Blanks
by Anonymous | reply 79 | September 28, 2024 7:57 PM |
Karen Alexander, underrated stunner from the nineties. Seems like she’s having a career renaissance now…
by Anonymous | reply 80 | September 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.
by Anonymous | reply 81 | September 28, 2024 8:04 PM |
Beverly Johnson. 71 and still looking good. Wig is too much, though. New husband doesn't look appealing.
by Anonymous | reply 82 | September 28, 2024 8:06 PM |
OP’s posted pic reminds me of Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
by Anonymous | reply 83 | September 28, 2024 8:31 PM |
Was Beverly Johnson the model that was with Chris (Mr. Big) Noth for a while?
by Anonymous | reply 84 | September 29, 2024 5:56 AM |
Yes, R84…and he allegedly beat the shit out of her.
by Anonymous | reply 85 | September 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 Anonymous | reply 86 | September 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 Anonymous | reply 87 | September 30, 2024 5:47 PM |
R80 That's a gorgeous Vogue cover.
by Anonymous | reply 88 | September 30, 2024 5:47 PM |
Cindy Crawfords Legion of Doom doppelgänger, Shana Zadrick.
by Anonymous | reply 91 | September 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 Anonymous | reply 92 | September 30, 2024 6:09 PM |
Marpessa (Hennink), who's Dutch Just like Apollonia
by Anonymous | reply 93 | September 30, 2024 7:13 PM |
What was that house tune about Nadège's walk? Anyone remember?
by Anonymous | reply 95 | September 30, 2024 7:37 PM |
Marpessa another great walk.
by Anonymous | reply 96 | September 30, 2024 7:42 PM |
If we're going to mention Alek Wek, her Elle cover must be included.
by Anonymous | reply 97 | September 30, 2024 7:44 PM |
Pam Gidley is dead??!!
by Anonymous | reply 98 | September 30, 2024 8:07 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 Anonymous | reply 100 | September 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 Anonymous | reply 101 | September 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 Anonymous | reply 102 | September 30, 2024 11:32 PM |
by Anonymous | reply 103 | September 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 Anonymous | reply 104 | September 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 Anonymous | reply 105 | October 1, 2024 12:20 AM |
R104 thanks for the correction on date contexts
by Anonymous | reply 106 | October 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.
by Anonymous | reply 107 | October 2, 2024 5:36 PM |
I know someone who was a Ford model circa the '90s. She was mixed race.
by Anonymous | reply 108 | October 2, 2024 5:39 PM |
Wanakee Pugh was a Top Model?
by Anonymous | reply 109 | October 2, 2024 6:07 PM |
Shelley Hack, anyone?
by Anonymous | reply 110 | October 2, 2024 6:42 PM |
Good one, R111
by Anonymous | reply 112 | October 2, 2024 6:55 PM |
Evelyn Nesbit, The Girl on the Red Velvet Swing.
by Anonymous | reply 114 | October 3, 2024 3:49 AM |