My love affair with Linda
Evangelista started in my early teens. To my young gay eyes she was the
superest of supermodels! Not only was she beautiful but she was beautiful in a totally unique and modern way. While other kids were sporting pictures of
NKOTB on their trapper keepers I proudly displayed Ms. Evangelista, with her cropped cut hair and her legendary nose! Linda was part of that pack of incredibly lucky girls who rode the “supermodel” wave in the 90’s. But in retrospect looking back on that time I realize that those lovely ladies deserved every penny and every bit of attention they garnered. They WERE fashion. They brought the industry to the mainstream (at least for my generation), making it an integral and necessary part of pop culture; mixing it with music and art until it all became one. The word supermodel was invented for them! So, kudos, ladies…and especially to Linda, my childhood goddess, the fiercest one of them all!
"I won't get out of bed for less than $10,000 a day" - Linda Evangelista
A Day with Linda Evangelista
Report from MTV's Stylissimo (1991)
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