Word: crawfords
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last week, noontime oglers were largely out of luck. Most of the supermodels were absent from the runways. They have, in a sense, grown too big for the fashion world that created them and turned them into internationally admired adventuresses. Instead of modeling clothes in New York City, Cindy Crawford was in Miami shooting her first movie, Fair Game, with Billy Baldwin. Vendela fans could have found the towering Swede in Los Angeles, where she had recently done a guest spot on Murphy Brown. Naomi Campbell, usually ubiquitous all through Fashion Week, appeared in just two shows. She had intended...
...Amber Valetta, who just signed on as a correspondent with Fashion Week, a new TV show that premiered on the E! cable channel two weeks ago. It is one of four fashion-news shows that have sprung up in imitation of mtv's successful House of Style, starring Cindy Crawford. The paradigm for the supermodel-as-enterprise, Crawford is surely inspiring many of the professionally beautiful. Her various ventures-a TV show, exercise videos, contracts with Revlon, Pepsi and Kay Jewelers-earn her an estimated $6.5 million annually. According to a recent tally in Forbes magazine...
Their ranks are sure to grow. As the old guard of Crawford, Evangelista, Turlington and others begins to age, a host of newer faces is ready to supplant them. Among the hottest is Bridget Hall, a 17-year-old Texan who already has a lucrative Ralph Lauren contract. Nearly as omnipresent is the platinum-haired, preternaturally statuesque German model Nadja Auermann, featured on the cover of this month's W. Fashion watchers in New York last week, meanwhile, could hardly miss Irina, a striking 21-year-old Siberian, who appeared on the runway for no fewer than 18 shows...
Supermodels owe their heightened visibility and success to a culture continually ravenous for new kinds of celebrities. Many observers argue that supermodels have topped movie stars on the fame hierarchy because they possess an ethereal allure missing since the '40s and '50s. "I couldn't ever picture Joan Crawford going to the supermarket to buy soap," notes Pauline Bernatchez, who runs the 24-year-old Parisian modeling agency Pauline's, "but I could easily envision Meryl Streep doing it with her children. Models seem more untouchable. People need glamour; they need to dream." Says designer Isaac Mizrahi: "When my mother...
...kill her best friend. She was so stunned, she said, that she repressed the memory for nearly two decades. Although the validity of Eileen's testimony was not at issue in the appeal, it will certainly become the main focus of the new trial. In Kittanning, Pennsylvania, Franklin Crawford was given a 10-to-20-year sentence for drowning a woman in 1971. His conviction was based almost entirely on the testimony of a former neighbor who, more than 20 years after the event, suddenly recalled witnessing the crime...