On a warm Sunday morning in November of 1989, a little group of models gathered on a street in downtown New york city. British Vogue had actually lined up 5 of the “supers”– Cindy Crawford, Christy Turlington, Linda Evangelista, Naomi Campbell, and Tatjana Patitz— to be photographed by Peter Lindbergh for the magazine’s January 1990 cover.Christiaan Houtenbos,
the hair stylist on the shoot, recalls Lindbergh using a”kind but identified “method to getting the 5 females, each with” very different personalities,”to line up in front of his lens. With gentle persuading, Lindbergh and style stylist Brana Wolf had the ability to produce an image that has actually ended up being a landmark in style photography.It appears that even prior to the problem went to print, the British Style team understood they had actually produced something unique. Opposite a page announcing the” Femme de Siecle,”the magazine included”A Cover in the Making,” revealing behind-the-scenes pictures of the shoot, as Lindbergh snapped away and was adoringly welcomed by the models. It was history in the making.As a 31-year veteran of Condé Nast– 20 of those years spent as photography director of United States Vogue and now supervising our United States archive for the past seven years– I believed it would be the perfect time to have another look at a few of my really favorite supermodel images from the pages of the British and United States editions. For not only did designs like Cindy, Christy, Linda, and Naomi end up being family names, the photographers who developed their images ended up being stars themselves.Cindy Photographed by Patrick Demarchelier, British Vogue, August 1989 [maxbutton id=”4″]
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