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The Guardian September 7, 2013
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/sep/07/naomi-campbell-interview
She's late. Of course she's late. You don't get to be a one-name-only celebrity by deviating from your brand, and Naomi Campbell is always late. It's as much a part of her brand as being absurdly beautiful, and the real-life Campbell does not disappoint on either count. As the hours tick away and a 10-strong shoot crew flick through magazines and direct hopeful glances at the door every time it swings open, I am reminded of the words of Miss Jean Brodie, when summoned to a meeting at 4.15pm: "Four fifteen. Not four, not 4.30, but 4.15. Hmm. She thinks to intimidate me by the use of quarter-hours?"
Today, Campbell intimidates to the tune of two hours, 51 minutes. The door swings open, and suddenly there she is: short, black Azzedine Alaia sundress and Alaia gladiator sandals, diva shades, phone clamped to one ear. The lighting assistants watch her while pretending to do something with gaffer tape; the catering team take their time gathering the coffee pots; the work experience girls simply try not to gawp. She struts across the huge studio, hips swinging in that unmistakable one-two motion that Vogue once described as her "magic runway boom-boom", to the relative quiet of the makeup room. Here she will be styled for our Hitchcock heroines shoot.
When she finishes her phone call, I introduce myself. "Hello how are you nice to meet you," she replies, her monotone dripping with ennui. The tone is that of a cocktail party hostess greeting an uninvited guest whom she would quite like to throw out but has decided to tolerate.
She is all cheekbones and plump lips; high, round bottom and long, lean thigh muscle. It's not just an awesome body for 43, it's an awesome body full stop. Before she has even sat down in the makeup chair, she looks every inch the supermodel.
In fact, Campbell outgrew the supermodel label a long time ago. This is a woman who was teenage roommates with Christy Turlington and is Nelson Mandela's honorary granddaughter, who has appeared in music videos for Bob Marley and George Michael, and whose ex-boyfriends include Robert De Niro and Mike Tyson. Tyson, asked to describe Campbell when they were going out, famously said of her, "She's scared of nothing."
Between 1998 and 2008, Campbell was as much a fixture of the tabloids as she was of the glossies. She admitted assaulting a personal assistant, Georgina Galanis, with a mobile phone; throwing a gem-encrusted BlackBerry at a housekeeper, Ana Scolavino; and assaulting two police officers at Heathrow, in a row over lost luggage that earned her a five-year ban from British Airways. When sentenced to community service and sweeping the streets of New York, Campbell kept a diary for W magazine that was accompanied by photographs by Steven Klein of her reporting for duty wearing a floor-length, silver-sequinned Dolce & Gabbana gown. The message of that image – you can bring me down to earth, but you will never humble me – was repeated in 2010, when she gave her infamous "blood diamonds" testimony at the trial of former African warlord Charles Taylor, dressed in the queenly beehive and sharp lemon pastels of a southern belle, and described her time in the witness box as "a big inconvenience".
Now, a full quarter-century after her first Vogue cover, comes a new chapter in the Campbell story. Not for Campbell the redemption tale, the ceremonial eating of humble pie. Instead, she has used the take-no-prisoners bossiness that for years served as a distraction from her day job to develop a second career.
She is now a presenter and executive producer on The Face, a search-for-a-star TV modelling show in which three mentors – Campbell, Erin O'Connor and Caroline Winburg – pit their talent-spotting, career-nurturing and strategising skills against each other in a bid to back the winner in a race for a Max Factor modelling contract. In other words, the Next Top Model formula has been spiced up with a little of the emotional, team-building spirit of The Voice and a lot of the tough-love, in-it-to-win-it attitude of The Apprentice. Campbell gets to play the Alan Sugar role of lovable villain.
Certainly she likes to run the show. The shoot takes a long time, held up for a while as Campbell has business calls to make, and then because she is less than happy with the aesthetic of the pictures, and has to call in some of her personal team. Eventually she and I sit down, perched at the makeup table, so that Campbell can be restyled for her evening engagements while we talk. I switch on the recording app on my phone. "I've got a better one," she says immediately, pulls two iPhones from her handbag and swipes impatiently across the screens in search of the app. She is being helpful, no doubt about that, but there is an unconscious note of power play – not to mention the sweet irony of my having provoked her into pulling not one but two phones out of her bag within seconds of us sitting down.
I ask her why she said yes to The Face, having turned down TV before, and she says: "I started talking to Liz Murdoch [whose company Shine produces The Face] around 10 years ago and the conversation evolved, and when this came along it felt like it was finally the right thing. I like that I am a mentor on this show, not a judge. I don't want a young woman to feel like her dreams have been blown because of me – I want to help her reach her dreams. I have an opportunity to share what I've learned over 27 years, and that's a powerful thing."
If The Face shows a warmer side of Campbell no one is pretending she has gone soft. She describes herself as a "mother hen" to her "girls", but her idea of nurturing is, in her words, "tough love. I'm straight up, I'm honest. When my girls do something great, I praise them and pamper them. And when they do something wrong, I'm gonna tell them. I'm not gonna sugarcoat it, because they're not going to get it sugarcoated in the real world. Everyone makes mistakes but you have to learn from those mistakes if you want to get on."
No one in the industry who knows Campbell will tell you she is a pussycat or a pushover, but many speak highly of her loyalty, her commitment to causes she believes in. The refrain most often repeated about her by people who know her well is that she is a one-off, "there's no one like her". During our time together, the personality she projects is one of old-school, aloof unknowability. Fun and warmth are kept well guarded behind the velvet ropes. But when she chooses to turn it on, she has immense personal magnetism, which has enabled her to forge close and lasting relationships with designers, business moguls and other models – relationships that have done much to shield her from the quicksand into which many models' careers disappear. Her friend Donatella Versace once said of Campbell: "They say she is spoiled and annoying. But she's not. She's very determined and very generous, and these are two qualities that nobody ever talks about."
In the summer of 1985, Campbell was a 15-year-old schoolgirl from Streatham, south London. While window-shopping in Covent Garden, she was spotted by a model agent; before her 16th birthday she was on the cover of British Elle. "I didn't know how to model," she says. "I wasn't spending my pocket money on buying magazines, so I didn't know how models were supposed to look. So I just kind of made it up. Instinctively, I used my dance background to help me, jumping in the air, and the photographers liked it."
A year later, in Paris, she found her own mentor. "I was shooting for French Elle, and for some reason I took my passport and money to work and it kind of disappeared. And a model who was there that day was going to dinner with Azzedine [Alaia] and she took me along, with my mother. So we went, and I couldn't speak French, but my mother could and he [Alaia] spoke to her and said, I'm going to take care of your daughter; she's going to stay with me. He's been that way ever since. I call him Papa."
"As a model," she says, she "learned from the greats. Yves Saint Laurent was very supportive of me. He was very quiet, kind of twinkly-eyed. He didn't talk very much and we were not really supposed to speak to him, but I did. Gianni Versace was incredibly supportive of the models he worked with. When he would get an award or be honoured in some way, he would want his models to be there, to share that moment with him. That was a real bond, and now Donatella and Allegra are like family to me. I trust them, they trust me, we spend vacations together." (Campbell has the hybrid accent and vocabulary specific to those who have spent their adult lives flying back and forth across the Atlantic: she will say "vacation", but in the next sentence pronounce "little" the south London way, with the Ts almost silent, reminding me of the girl whose mum taught her to catwalk in the corridor to a Lionel Richie soundtrack.)
The most extraordinary of all Campbell "greats" has been Nelson Mandela. He is critically ill in hospital on the day of our shoot. "I am so blessed to know him, and I always ask why it was that I was able to meet such a great man. I am in touch on a daily basis. He's a strong man. The whole world is praying."
Campbell believes that the late 80s to mid-90s were not just her own glory days, but the golden age in which to be a model. "In my era, we'd get a phone call from John [Galliano] before the show: this is what the show's about, what do you think? And we'd talk about it; we knew what the inspiration was, we really understood the collection and where the designer was coming from and so knew what kind of vibe to have." As the fashion industry has expanded, the models have been sidelined, she believes. "If we [Christy, Campbell Linda etc] were on a different level to the models now, that's because we had a relationship with the designers, so it was a real collaboration. And the photographers, too – we were so close to Steven Meisel, to Mario [Testino]. When I started, the designers saw you in the castings and chose you. We went for dinner and hung out. Now you've got casting directors, and production. There's more of a gap between the model and the designer, because there are all these other people in the middle."
She is particularly concerned about the marginalization of black models in the fashion industry. If she and her contemporaries spearheaded an era of progress in which different ethnicity were celebrated on magazine covers and catwalks, the past decade has seen the proportion of non-white faces on a downward trajectory. "I feel very responsible for young models of color. They come to me and tell me they're not getting jobs, and I do what I can to speak up for them. This year has not been great. It's so disappointing. I feel it very personally. I've given 27 years to this business and things haven't got any better. It is shocking." Along with Iman and Bethann Hardison, an iconic black model of the 1970s who went on to found a model agency, Campbell is working on an initiative that is as yet under wraps. "We have to speak up, because we can."
These days, Campbell models on her own terms. When she takes to the catwalk, she does so as a special guest of the designer: most recently, she took the prestigious opening and closing spots at the Versace haute couture show, in Paris in July. (Backstage, Donatella remarked to me that Campbell was "still perfect. Look at those legs! They are amazing." She spends much of our shoot in hotpants and they are, indeed, amazing.)
For the seven hours she is on the shoot, Campbell never raises her voice or stamps her foot. When she is on set, in front of an audience, she exaggerates her ice queen persona, whether consciously or not: the eyebrows are raised higher, the acid asides delivered in an even more staccato tone. At these moments, she reminds me a little of Cate Blanchett or Tilda Swinton, in their snow queen/white witch roles. This makes me wonder whether her skin colour subconsciously affects the way we perceive Campbell. In the runup to the US presidential election of 2008, I read that Barack Obama worked on exaggerating the calm, unruffled delivery of his public speaking because the merest hint of heated emotion from a black man would be read by the public as a sign of temper, a hint of violence.
Does the colour of Campbell skin make us more likely to interpret her behaviour as intimidating, as difficult, rather than simply as aloof, or withdrawn? I ask her whether she believes the public notion of her character is an accurate one. "Well, everyone has a temper. A temper is an emotion. But do I care what they say? Is that what you're asking? Everyone is entitled to their opinion."
And what about your opinion, I ask? Are you happy with the way you are? "I'm a work in progress. But yes, I'm happy with the way I am now. I'm very observant and very instinctive. In life, you have to have the vulnerability to accept when you are to blame. And I do have that and I am open enough to say it. I've made mistakes. You know all that stuff, I'm not going over it again. And I admit to them, but I don't regret anything. I don't live in regret."
She goes silent for a moment. I am formulating my next question, when she declares: "Am I bossy? Absolutely. I don't like to lose, and if I'm told no then I find another way to get my yes. But I'm a loyal person. And I'm generous and I don't bullsh*t."
Being a model requires more mental strength than most people realize, she says; that is what she hopes The Face will show people. "You have to be able to take direction, you have to be always watching your composure, your attitude. But you have to be able to hold on to your own personality, too. That's the part you can't teach. On the show I tell my girls: this is a competition. You know what? You don't want to get so comfortable that you forget that, because you need to always be competing. You're not here to make friends."
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/sep/07/naomi-campbell-interview
She's late. Of course she's late. You don't get to be a one-name-only celebrity by deviating from your brand, and Naomi Campbell is always late. It's as much a part of her brand as being absurdly beautiful, and the real-life Campbell does not disappoint on either count. As the hours tick away and a 10-strong shoot crew flick through magazines and direct hopeful glances at the door every time it swings open, I am reminded of the words of Miss Jean Brodie, when summoned to a meeting at 4.15pm: "Four fifteen. Not four, not 4.30, but 4.15. Hmm. She thinks to intimidate me by the use of quarter-hours?"
Today, Campbell intimidates to the tune of two hours, 51 minutes. The door swings open, and suddenly there she is: short, black Azzedine Alaia sundress and Alaia gladiator sandals, diva shades, phone clamped to one ear. The lighting assistants watch her while pretending to do something with gaffer tape; the catering team take their time gathering the coffee pots; the work experience girls simply try not to gawp. She struts across the huge studio, hips swinging in that unmistakable one-two motion that Vogue once described as her "magic runway boom-boom", to the relative quiet of the makeup room. Here she will be styled for our Hitchcock heroines shoot.
When she finishes her phone call, I introduce myself. "Hello how are you nice to meet you," she replies, her monotone dripping with ennui. The tone is that of a cocktail party hostess greeting an uninvited guest whom she would quite like to throw out but has decided to tolerate.
She is all cheekbones and plump lips; high, round bottom and long, lean thigh muscle. It's not just an awesome body for 43, it's an awesome body full stop. Before she has even sat down in the makeup chair, she looks every inch the supermodel.
In fact, Campbell outgrew the supermodel label a long time ago. This is a woman who was teenage roommates with Christy Turlington and is Nelson Mandela's honorary granddaughter, who has appeared in music videos for Bob Marley and George Michael, and whose ex-boyfriends include Robert De Niro and Mike Tyson. Tyson, asked to describe Campbell when they were going out, famously said of her, "She's scared of nothing."
Between 1998 and 2008, Campbell was as much a fixture of the tabloids as she was of the glossies. She admitted assaulting a personal assistant, Georgina Galanis, with a mobile phone; throwing a gem-encrusted BlackBerry at a housekeeper, Ana Scolavino; and assaulting two police officers at Heathrow, in a row over lost luggage that earned her a five-year ban from British Airways. When sentenced to community service and sweeping the streets of New York, Campbell kept a diary for W magazine that was accompanied by photographs by Steven Klein of her reporting for duty wearing a floor-length, silver-sequinned Dolce & Gabbana gown. The message of that image – you can bring me down to earth, but you will never humble me – was repeated in 2010, when she gave her infamous "blood diamonds" testimony at the trial of former African warlord Charles Taylor, dressed in the queenly beehive and sharp lemon pastels of a southern belle, and described her time in the witness box as "a big inconvenience".
Now, a full quarter-century after her first Vogue cover, comes a new chapter in the Campbell story. Not for Campbell the redemption tale, the ceremonial eating of humble pie. Instead, she has used the take-no-prisoners bossiness that for years served as a distraction from her day job to develop a second career.
She is now a presenter and executive producer on The Face, a search-for-a-star TV modelling show in which three mentors – Campbell, Erin O'Connor and Caroline Winburg – pit their talent-spotting, career-nurturing and strategising skills against each other in a bid to back the winner in a race for a Max Factor modelling contract. In other words, the Next Top Model formula has been spiced up with a little of the emotional, team-building spirit of The Voice and a lot of the tough-love, in-it-to-win-it attitude of The Apprentice. Campbell gets to play the Alan Sugar role of lovable villain.
Certainly she likes to run the show. The shoot takes a long time, held up for a while as Campbell has business calls to make, and then because she is less than happy with the aesthetic of the pictures, and has to call in some of her personal team. Eventually she and I sit down, perched at the makeup table, so that Campbell can be restyled for her evening engagements while we talk. I switch on the recording app on my phone. "I've got a better one," she says immediately, pulls two iPhones from her handbag and swipes impatiently across the screens in search of the app. She is being helpful, no doubt about that, but there is an unconscious note of power play – not to mention the sweet irony of my having provoked her into pulling not one but two phones out of her bag within seconds of us sitting down.
I ask her why she said yes to The Face, having turned down TV before, and she says: "I started talking to Liz Murdoch [whose company Shine produces The Face] around 10 years ago and the conversation evolved, and when this came along it felt like it was finally the right thing. I like that I am a mentor on this show, not a judge. I don't want a young woman to feel like her dreams have been blown because of me – I want to help her reach her dreams. I have an opportunity to share what I've learned over 27 years, and that's a powerful thing."
If The Face shows a warmer side of Campbell no one is pretending she has gone soft. She describes herself as a "mother hen" to her "girls", but her idea of nurturing is, in her words, "tough love. I'm straight up, I'm honest. When my girls do something great, I praise them and pamper them. And when they do something wrong, I'm gonna tell them. I'm not gonna sugarcoat it, because they're not going to get it sugarcoated in the real world. Everyone makes mistakes but you have to learn from those mistakes if you want to get on."
No one in the industry who knows Campbell will tell you she is a pussycat or a pushover, but many speak highly of her loyalty, her commitment to causes she believes in. The refrain most often repeated about her by people who know her well is that she is a one-off, "there's no one like her". During our time together, the personality she projects is one of old-school, aloof unknowability. Fun and warmth are kept well guarded behind the velvet ropes. But when she chooses to turn it on, she has immense personal magnetism, which has enabled her to forge close and lasting relationships with designers, business moguls and other models – relationships that have done much to shield her from the quicksand into which many models' careers disappear. Her friend Donatella Versace once said of Campbell: "They say she is spoiled and annoying. But she's not. She's very determined and very generous, and these are two qualities that nobody ever talks about."
In the summer of 1985, Campbell was a 15-year-old schoolgirl from Streatham, south London. While window-shopping in Covent Garden, she was spotted by a model agent; before her 16th birthday she was on the cover of British Elle. "I didn't know how to model," she says. "I wasn't spending my pocket money on buying magazines, so I didn't know how models were supposed to look. So I just kind of made it up. Instinctively, I used my dance background to help me, jumping in the air, and the photographers liked it."
A year later, in Paris, she found her own mentor. "I was shooting for French Elle, and for some reason I took my passport and money to work and it kind of disappeared. And a model who was there that day was going to dinner with Azzedine [Alaia] and she took me along, with my mother. So we went, and I couldn't speak French, but my mother could and he [Alaia] spoke to her and said, I'm going to take care of your daughter; she's going to stay with me. He's been that way ever since. I call him Papa."
"As a model," she says, she "learned from the greats. Yves Saint Laurent was very supportive of me. He was very quiet, kind of twinkly-eyed. He didn't talk very much and we were not really supposed to speak to him, but I did. Gianni Versace was incredibly supportive of the models he worked with. When he would get an award or be honoured in some way, he would want his models to be there, to share that moment with him. That was a real bond, and now Donatella and Allegra are like family to me. I trust them, they trust me, we spend vacations together." (Campbell has the hybrid accent and vocabulary specific to those who have spent their adult lives flying back and forth across the Atlantic: she will say "vacation", but in the next sentence pronounce "little" the south London way, with the Ts almost silent, reminding me of the girl whose mum taught her to catwalk in the corridor to a Lionel Richie soundtrack.)
The most extraordinary of all Campbell "greats" has been Nelson Mandela. He is critically ill in hospital on the day of our shoot. "I am so blessed to know him, and I always ask why it was that I was able to meet such a great man. I am in touch on a daily basis. He's a strong man. The whole world is praying."
Campbell believes that the late 80s to mid-90s were not just her own glory days, but the golden age in which to be a model. "In my era, we'd get a phone call from John [Galliano] before the show: this is what the show's about, what do you think? And we'd talk about it; we knew what the inspiration was, we really understood the collection and where the designer was coming from and so knew what kind of vibe to have." As the fashion industry has expanded, the models have been sidelined, she believes. "If we [Christy, Campbell Linda etc] were on a different level to the models now, that's because we had a relationship with the designers, so it was a real collaboration. And the photographers, too – we were so close to Steven Meisel, to Mario [Testino]. When I started, the designers saw you in the castings and chose you. We went for dinner and hung out. Now you've got casting directors, and production. There's more of a gap between the model and the designer, because there are all these other people in the middle."
She is particularly concerned about the marginalization of black models in the fashion industry. If she and her contemporaries spearheaded an era of progress in which different ethnicity were celebrated on magazine covers and catwalks, the past decade has seen the proportion of non-white faces on a downward trajectory. "I feel very responsible for young models of color. They come to me and tell me they're not getting jobs, and I do what I can to speak up for them. This year has not been great. It's so disappointing. I feel it very personally. I've given 27 years to this business and things haven't got any better. It is shocking." Along with Iman and Bethann Hardison, an iconic black model of the 1970s who went on to found a model agency, Campbell is working on an initiative that is as yet under wraps. "We have to speak up, because we can."
These days, Campbell models on her own terms. When she takes to the catwalk, she does so as a special guest of the designer: most recently, she took the prestigious opening and closing spots at the Versace haute couture show, in Paris in July. (Backstage, Donatella remarked to me that Campbell was "still perfect. Look at those legs! They are amazing." She spends much of our shoot in hotpants and they are, indeed, amazing.)
For the seven hours she is on the shoot, Campbell never raises her voice or stamps her foot. When she is on set, in front of an audience, she exaggerates her ice queen persona, whether consciously or not: the eyebrows are raised higher, the acid asides delivered in an even more staccato tone. At these moments, she reminds me a little of Cate Blanchett or Tilda Swinton, in their snow queen/white witch roles. This makes me wonder whether her skin colour subconsciously affects the way we perceive Campbell. In the runup to the US presidential election of 2008, I read that Barack Obama worked on exaggerating the calm, unruffled delivery of his public speaking because the merest hint of heated emotion from a black man would be read by the public as a sign of temper, a hint of violence.
Does the colour of Campbell skin make us more likely to interpret her behaviour as intimidating, as difficult, rather than simply as aloof, or withdrawn? I ask her whether she believes the public notion of her character is an accurate one. "Well, everyone has a temper. A temper is an emotion. But do I care what they say? Is that what you're asking? Everyone is entitled to their opinion."
And what about your opinion, I ask? Are you happy with the way you are? "I'm a work in progress. But yes, I'm happy with the way I am now. I'm very observant and very instinctive. In life, you have to have the vulnerability to accept when you are to blame. And I do have that and I am open enough to say it. I've made mistakes. You know all that stuff, I'm not going over it again. And I admit to them, but I don't regret anything. I don't live in regret."
She goes silent for a moment. I am formulating my next question, when she declares: "Am I bossy? Absolutely. I don't like to lose, and if I'm told no then I find another way to get my yes. But I'm a loyal person. And I'm generous and I don't bullsh*t."
Being a model requires more mental strength than most people realize, she says; that is what she hopes The Face will show people. "You have to be able to take direction, you have to be always watching your composure, your attitude. But you have to be able to hold on to your own personality, too. That's the part you can't teach. On the show I tell my girls: this is a competition. You know what? You don't want to get so comfortable that you forget that, because you need to always be competing. You're not here to make friends."
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i have counted my Naomi campbell covers i have 523 covers with Miss CampbellI did not know she did that many !!
Ruby's right lol! Okay so I finally had some time to go over my collection and files. This is how it broke down
...698 Covers
Now if you want to get kinda technical and/or add covers how some others do it, you can add the 45 Inset & fold out covers like these
So the covercount can go either way 698 or 743 atleast
***Plus if you choose to also count...
9 Catalogs (I know this catalog count is way wrong, as in there's more BUT I never really collected them. Thus dont remember what I've seen over the years. So I just counted the ones I currently have).
14 Books (there probably is more but this genre wasn't my main focus)
Bringing Naomi's cover count to atleast 766 publications. I say atleast because I know I haven't seen everything, its impossible for one person.
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Amber Valletta, Christy Turlington, Daria Werbowy, Kate Moss, Linda Evangelista, Naomi Campbell & Stephanie Seymour by Mert & Marcus
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^Yeeeah, and there's another!
! Hope all is well. Keeping up with Naomi is never ending lol. A funny thing happened on the way back to the forum lol...I forgot & found 14 covers more! Then now we have this new German Interview cover. Bringing it to....
707 featured covers
51 inset & fold out covers
14 books
10 catalogs
Basically Naomi is in the 700+ club however you slice it
. Based on what I've seen I would even estimate she has atleast 800 but again I just counted what I've seen. Unfortunately we didn't have internet & all this technology when she was working like crazy. If she doesn't already have atleast 800, I bet she will before January '14 is over. Anyhow, here's some of what I found/forgot. Photo Source:soulstyle
**looking at that 2011 retrospective styled cover by the British magazine Pride, I discovered 2 other covers I've never seen before.
! Hey girlI knew Omifan would know this! How you been?
! Hope all is well. Keeping up with Naomi is never ending lol. A funny thing happened on the way back to the forum lol...I forgot & found 14 covers more! Then now we have this new German Interview cover. Bringing it to.... 707 featured covers
51 inset & fold out covers
14 books
10 catalogs
Basically Naomi is in the 700+ club however you slice it
. Based on what I've seen I would even estimate she has atleast 800 but again I just counted what I've seen. Unfortunately we didn't have internet & all this technology when she was working like crazy. If she doesn't already have atleast 800, I bet she will before January '14 is over. Anyhow, here's some of what I found/forgot. Photo Source:soulstyle **looking at that 2011 retrospective styled cover by the British magazine Pride, I discovered 2 other covers I've never seen before.
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"Hot Pants"
Models: Christy Turlington & Naomi Campbell
Photographer: Ellen von Unwerth
Stylist: Alice Gentilucci
Hair: Danilo
Makeup: Laurie Starlett
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"Hot Pants"
Models: Christy Turlington & Naomi Campbell
Photographer: Ellen von Unwerth
Stylist: Alice Gentilucci
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^Thanks for posting. Naomi has landed yet another the cover this month, the Daily Mail's 'Event' magazine. Some photos and interesting points from the feature...
‘Yes, I’ve been a naughty girl,’ she concedes when I list the impressive charge sheet of misdemeanors.
‘But I don’t regret anything. You know what I’ve been, and it is why I’ve said my life has been colourful. But I am not in denial about it. It’s part of growing up.
‘The thing is, I’ve always known when I’ve been bad – I don’t need anyone to tell me I’ve done something wrong, I know exactly what I’ve done.
'For me, the worst thing is to be in denial. 'I’ve never had denial because to my friends I’d always say: “Yup, I did that.” With the people I love I’m very open. I let them see all sides of me.’
Physically, what I can see is a work of art.
Campbell is wearing a short black Alexander McQueen skater dress – the late designer taught her to scuba-dive even though she could barely swim. It has cut-out panels that show off her perfectly flat stomach and unbelievably long legs.
Everything about her is flawless. But she is virtually impenetrable, only occasionally making eye contact, preferring to gaze around the room. ‘I don’t look in the mirror and think I’m really, really pretty,’ she says. ‘I see a work in progress.’
Now 42, she has a string of famous ex-boyfriends, including Robert De Niro, Mike Tyson, U2’s Adam Clayton, the late John Kennedy Jr, and her most recent ex, Russian billionaire Vladislav Doronin. But it wasn’t her love life that landed Campbell back in the press this week.
Along with David Bowie’s model wife Iman and the ex model turned activist Bethann Hardison, Campbell has founded the Diversity Coalition.
Along with David Bowie’s model wife Iman and the ex model turned activist Bethann Hardison, Campbell has founded the Diversity Coalition.
She has used her profile to speak out against racial prejudice in the fashion industry, accusing top designers (including Victoria Beckham) of snubbing black and Asian models.
‘It’s heartbreaking,’ she tells me. ‘In the last year I have had young black models tell me they haven’t been booked because “we already have one black model” or “this is not the United Colours of Benetton” and even “your shape is different”. It’s upsetting and it’s insulting.
'When I started out, there was balance on the runway – white and black, African, Indian, Asian. The designers flew in girls from all over.
‘Somehow now, with the involvement of casting directors, stylists and designers, a different aesthetic has evolved even if the people in the industry aren’t consciously aware that it’s happening.
'We are not saying anyone is racist; we’re saying that this [the under-representation of black models) is a racist act. Disappointingly, it is the truth, it’s not fiction, the statistics speak for themselves.’
The statistics she is referring to are those identifying the ethnicity of models walking the runways at last season’s New York Fashion Week. They showed that 82.7 per cent were white, 9.1 per cent Asian, six per cent black and two per cent Latina, hardly reflecting the U.S.’s racial mix. There is a quiet anger in Campbell’s voice as she recites the numbers.
‘I don’t feel betrayed, it’s not personal, but it is disappointing.’
So where did it go wrong? ‘Around the time of the new millennium, 2001 to 2002, that was the start.
'This isn’t a trend, it hasn’t just been happening for the last five minutes. John Galliano, Tom Ford, Jasper Conran, Azzedine Alaia, Gianni Versace, Rifat Ozbek . . . those designers all believed strongly in diversity. Now others have to reach out to their fans – women of colour are their consumers too.’
An open letter to the governing bodies of the fashion industry in New York, Paris, London and Milan, signed by Campbell, Iman and Bethann, attacked designers ranging from Victoria Beckham and Marc Jacobs to Chanel and Armani, for focusing on white models.
Campbell won’t be drawn further on the controversy.
‘We are not in the business of naming, shaming and blaming,’ she says.
‘We’re saying, let’s have a conversation and let’s find a solution. There’s no argument, I’m not picking a fight, but the designers need to be made aware.’
And she vehemently denies that she is seeking positive discrimination.
‘No, no, no,’ she reiterates, ‘just balance. Look, I have to speak out because today the young models can’t. If they do, they worry they might not get booked.
‘I was able to take care of myself. I was able to rise to the challenge – my whole career was based on a challenge. But now, I have nothing to lose and neither does Iman.’
In her 27-year career, Campbell has made the cover of every A-list style magazine in the world and worked with just about every major figure in the fashion industry.
In America, her performance on The Face won her a whole tranche of younger fans, who watched her scream, shout and fight like a tiger for her charges.
The show is essentially an X Factor for wannabe models and Campbell is compulsively watchable with her therapy speak, her masterclasses, her dressings-down.
‘I’m a drill sergeant. The tough love mentor. I’m being myself, 100 per cent authentic. Me. I know what these girls will have to go through. I know what will be expected of them.’
Ask her what she looks for in a model and she answers quickly.
‘Strength. You need to be tough. I look for that – I look for drive and passion and personality. It’s never just about looks.’
She pauses. ‘But I love mentoring young girls. I’ve always been like that. I did always look after people – my friends. When I told Kate Moss about the show, how I was mentoring these young girls, she watched the U.S. show and then she said: “Naomi, I was your first.”
‘It’s true. I looked after her when she first started out; she lived with me in New York. She was amazing already: she had the book (portfolio), she had the jobs, but I’d tell her what people were like, how she should be with certain people. We’re still good friends. All of us (supermodels), we’ve all stayed close, we’re all still there.’
She remains very protective of the supermodel brand. The suggestion that the modelling world’s new It Girl, Cara Delevingne (with aristocratic genes to boot), might be the new Kate Moss is heresy to Campbell.
Th Source and Further Reading, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/event/article-2425335/Naomi-Campbell-Ive-known-Ive-bad.html
...
‘Yes, I’ve been a naughty girl,’ she concedes when I list the impressive charge sheet of misdemeanors.
‘But I don’t regret anything. You know what I’ve been, and it is why I’ve said my life has been colourful. But I am not in denial about it. It’s part of growing up.
‘The thing is, I’ve always known when I’ve been bad – I don’t need anyone to tell me I’ve done something wrong, I know exactly what I’ve done.
'For me, the worst thing is to be in denial. 'I’ve never had denial because to my friends I’d always say: “Yup, I did that.” With the people I love I’m very open. I let them see all sides of me.’
Physically, what I can see is a work of art.
Campbell is wearing a short black Alexander McQueen skater dress – the late designer taught her to scuba-dive even though she could barely swim. It has cut-out panels that show off her perfectly flat stomach and unbelievably long legs.
Everything about her is flawless. But she is virtually impenetrable, only occasionally making eye contact, preferring to gaze around the room. ‘I don’t look in the mirror and think I’m really, really pretty,’ she says. ‘I see a work in progress.’
Now 42, she has a string of famous ex-boyfriends, including Robert De Niro, Mike Tyson, U2’s Adam Clayton, the late John Kennedy Jr, and her most recent ex, Russian billionaire Vladislav Doronin. But it wasn’t her love life that landed Campbell back in the press this week.
Along with David Bowie’s model wife Iman and the ex model turned activist Bethann Hardison, Campbell has founded the Diversity Coalition.
Along with David Bowie’s model wife Iman and the ex model turned activist Bethann Hardison, Campbell has founded the Diversity Coalition.
She has used her profile to speak out against racial prejudice in the fashion industry, accusing top designers (including Victoria Beckham) of snubbing black and Asian models.
‘It’s heartbreaking,’ she tells me. ‘In the last year I have had young black models tell me they haven’t been booked because “we already have one black model” or “this is not the United Colours of Benetton” and even “your shape is different”. It’s upsetting and it’s insulting.
'When I started out, there was balance on the runway – white and black, African, Indian, Asian. The designers flew in girls from all over.
‘Somehow now, with the involvement of casting directors, stylists and designers, a different aesthetic has evolved even if the people in the industry aren’t consciously aware that it’s happening.
'We are not saying anyone is racist; we’re saying that this [the under-representation of black models) is a racist act. Disappointingly, it is the truth, it’s not fiction, the statistics speak for themselves.’
The statistics she is referring to are those identifying the ethnicity of models walking the runways at last season’s New York Fashion Week. They showed that 82.7 per cent were white, 9.1 per cent Asian, six per cent black and two per cent Latina, hardly reflecting the U.S.’s racial mix. There is a quiet anger in Campbell’s voice as she recites the numbers.
So where did it go wrong? ‘Around the time of the new millennium, 2001 to 2002, that was the start.
'This isn’t a trend, it hasn’t just been happening for the last five minutes. John Galliano, Tom Ford, Jasper Conran, Azzedine Alaia, Gianni Versace, Rifat Ozbek . . . those designers all believed strongly in diversity. Now others have to reach out to their fans – women of colour are their consumers too.’
An open letter to the governing bodies of the fashion industry in New York, Paris, London and Milan, signed by Campbell, Iman and Bethann, attacked designers ranging from Victoria Beckham and Marc Jacobs to Chanel and Armani, for focusing on white models.
Campbell won’t be drawn further on the controversy.
‘We are not in the business of naming, shaming and blaming,’ she says.
‘We’re saying, let’s have a conversation and let’s find a solution. There’s no argument, I’m not picking a fight, but the designers need to be made aware.’
And she vehemently denies that she is seeking positive discrimination.
‘No, no, no,’ she reiterates, ‘just balance. Look, I have to speak out because today the young models can’t. If they do, they worry they might not get booked.
‘I was able to take care of myself. I was able to rise to the challenge – my whole career was based on a challenge. But now, I have nothing to lose and neither does Iman.’
In her 27-year career, Campbell has made the cover of every A-list style magazine in the world and worked with just about every major figure in the fashion industry.
In America, her performance on The Face won her a whole tranche of younger fans, who watched her scream, shout and fight like a tiger for her charges.
The show is essentially an X Factor for wannabe models and Campbell is compulsively watchable with her therapy speak, her masterclasses, her dressings-down.
‘I’m a drill sergeant. The tough love mentor. I’m being myself, 100 per cent authentic. Me. I know what these girls will have to go through. I know what will be expected of them.’
Ask her what she looks for in a model and she answers quickly.
‘Strength. You need to be tough. I look for that – I look for drive and passion and personality. It’s never just about looks.’
She pauses. ‘But I love mentoring young girls. I’ve always been like that. I did always look after people – my friends. When I told Kate Moss about the show, how I was mentoring these young girls, she watched the U.S. show and then she said: “Naomi, I was your first.”
‘It’s true. I looked after her when she first started out; she lived with me in New York. She was amazing already: she had the book (portfolio), she had the jobs, but I’d tell her what people were like, how she should be with certain people. We’re still good friends. All of us (supermodels), we’ve all stayed close, we’re all still there.’
She remains very protective of the supermodel brand. The suggestion that the modelling world’s new It Girl, Cara Delevingne (with aristocratic genes to boot), might be the new Kate Moss is heresy to Campbell.
Th Source and Further Reading, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/event/article-2425335/Naomi-Campbell-Ive-known-Ive-bad.html
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