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Back in the U.S., TIME Correspondents James Wilde and Janice Simpson and Reporter-Researcher Georgia Harbison prowled the studios and salons of Manhattans fashion world. For his look at the way models live, Wilde went roller-discoing with Supermodel Apollonia, brunched with British Model Rachel Ward at the Plaza Hotel's Palm Court and interviewed Louise Roberts, who every week combs through as many as 200 applicants to the Eileen Ford agency to come up with one or two who might have a modeling future. "Normally I work the streets," Wilde says. "This job was like being let loose...
...another part of the forest there is Apollonia, called Apples, called crazy by friends who watch her in amazement...
...Rachel Ward, like Apollonia, is one of Zoli's exotics. She is English, a former art student with a flamboyant figure (dress designers, she says, "were always strapping my breasts down") and an eye on an acting career. Modeling?she is this year's Lincoln Mercury girl and Revlon Scoundrel perfume girl?pays the bills nicely but does not interest her much. At 23, she lives in Los Angeles, and has so far appeared in two horror films, Terror Eyes and Bump in the Night. Brooke Shields, she says, arching her willowy neck, "is a rotten actress...
...doctor says I'm going to be 6 ft."); she doesn't wear heels much, and she wobbled a bit as she wandered around in a yellow strapless with a puff-sleeved jacket, waiting to be hung with jewelry. Wondrous astral bodies circulated about her; the ineffable Apollonia had got hold of some champagne, and showed up for work wearing red tights, a black tank top, a rough-trade belt, and Sony headphones over her ponytail. Iman, the gazelle-like Somalian, in silver pants and a noisy yellow top, joined her and they began dancing and laughing. Another...
SOME of the children I taught walked five miles every morning to the squat, cement school-house on the Southern edge of Tanga. A strange collection of African, Arabic and English names belonged to those broad, smiling faces: Mbwana Hassani, Jumbe Wema, Joho Said, Lillian Grace Lukindo, Mary John, Apollonia Said...