‘The Super Models’ Explores Power And Impact Of Campbell, Crawford, Turlington And Evangelista: “They Were The First Influencers” – Contenders TV: Doc + Unscripted
deadline.comThe Apple TV+ docuseries The Super Models hearkens to the 1990s when four extraordinary beauties ruled the covers of fashion magazines and popular culture: Naomi Campbell, Christy Turlington, Cindy Crawford and Linda Evangelista. “It was a time when music and art and fashion were all coming together.
And they were the first influencers … way before there were cell phones or anything,” executive producer and director Roger Ross Williams said during an appearance at Deadline’s Contenders Television: Documentary + Unscripted event. “They were on the pages of the Daily News and New York Post and the fashion magazines and the gossip magazines.
They were everywhere.” Producer-director Larissa Bills added, “These women, I think, be it their force of personality plus the time, plus the culture, it became a zeitgeist where they were able to own their own image.
And I don’t mean that literally because there’s certainly an element of other people owning the photograph, but they got to be bigger than the brand, bigger than the designer that was walking them down the runway, and they were the big draw, and everyone knew their names.” RELATED: Contenders TV Docs + Unscripted – Deadline’s Full Coverage The four-part series explores each woman’s origin story.
Read more on deadline.com
