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...makes for an oddly vibrant community with its own language, social structure and economy. Wizards and gods keep order and help newbies get their feet wet. Trolling singles in supermodel avs move swanlike through mating rituals old as the species and new as the next Java upgrade. Soccer moms swap family snapshots and grouse about how the place has gone downhill since the damn teens arrived...
...will slip white shoes onto her black-stockinged legs, and no one will stop her. No leonine six-footer will swoop down from the sky to grab the pumps from her pudgy little feet and rescue her from fashion disaster. No, the skies are empty today. Because the supermodel is dead...
Which is why the popular conspiracy theory explaining the supermodel's disappearance is that designers and fashion editors, sick of their "I won't get out of bed for less than $10,000 a day" attitude, made sure a small group of models would never again have the power of the Big Six. "By 1995 several of the girls had acted up so much, there was a building resentment against them," says Michael Gross, the author of Model: The Ugly Business of Beautiful Women. "They'd sit in the back of limos and kick the driver in the neck with...
Actually, editors don't care. Charles Gandee, associate editor at Vogue, says high prices and poor attitudes contributed less to the decline of the supermodel than did changes in the fashion world. As clothes became less flashy--as Versace gave way to Prada--designers turned to models who were less glamorous, so they wouldn't overpower the clothing. "Maggie Rizer, Erin O'Connor, Karen Elson--those three girls are idiosyncratic," says Gandee. "Maggie has freckles; Karen has kind of dicey skin. You don't look at them and say, 'That's a pretty girl.' They not only weren...
...hair back. They're not like goddesses anymore. They're real people, working really hard." So hard, they've formed a union. Maria Di Angelis, a New York model on the board of directors of the Models Guild, local 51, doesn't even know how to be a supermodel. "While I was dating Jim Carrey, I had so many people wanting to interview me. And I thought it was kind of rude." Wake up, Maria...