Still in vogue, these supermodels have seemingly tamed the catwalk of time.
The familiar face of model Linda Evangelista smiles from the cover of August's Vogue magazine, an issue devoted to aging. Evangelista, 41, wears a black Bottega Veneta dress with sterling-silver chain-link straps, and her blond hair with its artfully dark roots is brushed back, except for a few messy strands jutting out from behind one ear. Reflexively there is an urge to smooth her hair, but intuitively one knows that the asymmetry is fashionably intentional.
Evangelista is part of the generation of mannequins who in the 1990s were popularly dubbed "supermodels." The rules for what truly defined these hyperbolic beings were never made clear, but they included regular appearances on the catwalk and in glossy magazines, enormous salaries and the average person having some vague first-name familiarity with them. The most famous of these were Linda, Christy and Naomi.
Evangelista has posed and vamped through fashion's obsession with ostentation, minimalism, grunge, tartiness, bohemia and elegance. She took a break, and now she's back for grunge: the remix. Through the years, she altered her hair color and changed her body language with each shift of the fashion tides. But she always looked like herself. In an industry of planned
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