When was the term supermodel coined

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Caroline Winberg. Lucia Dvorska. Liu Wen. Crystal Renn. Melissa Haro. Sessilee Lopez. Flavia de Oliveira. Anne Vyalitsyna. Erin Heatherton. Damaris Lewis. Lindsay Ellingson. Eniko Mihalik. Ariel Meredith. Sheila Marquez. Georgia May Jagger. Yulia Kharlapanova. Supermodel Introduction The term supermodel also spelled super-model , [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] super model [ 8 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ] [ 11 ] refers to a highly-paid fashion model who usually has a worldwide reputation and often a background in haute couture and commercial modeling.

List of Supermodels 1. Gisele Bundchen 2. Heidi Klum 3. Kate Moss 4. Adriana Lima 5. Alessandra Ambrosio 6. According to "Oxford English Dictionary" contributor Barry Popik, Janice Dickinson's claim to have coined the term "supermodel" is not accurate.

As Popik discovered, the word goes back at least to the s, when the phrase "super model" appeared in a "Chicago Tribune" headline, and a book on modeling by agent Clyde Matthew Dessner used the word "super-model" to describe the glamorous model of the future. The first recorded use of the word "super-model" to describe top models in the profession appears to be in a March 21, , "New York Times" article on iconic British supermodel Twiggy, after which "supermodel" starts to appear.

Some have claimed that the word was used as early as , as the phrase "super model" appears in a "Strand Magazine" article from that year. However, in context, the phrase is not referring to a fashion model, but to a man who comically overacts while posing for a painting. John Green is an attorney who has been writing on legal, business and media matters for more than 20 years. Sister Suzy Parker, best known as photographer Richard Avedon's muse, was also a gossip column staple and a Hollywood star before she settled into domesticity as the wife of actor Bradford Dillman.

The next generation of supermodels was led by Britons Jean Shrimpton and Twiggy. Shrimpton had the good fortune to hook up with David Bailey, the best of a batch of trendsetting British photographers known as the Terrible Trio, just as the s were getting started. She was a pouty-lipped, saucer-eyed, eighteen-year-old modeling school graduate; he was a twenty-three-yearold East End rake-in-the-making.

Together, they kicked off the Youthquake before he went on to marry actress Catherine Deneuve, and she to an affair with actor Terence Stamp and an appearance on the cover of Newsweek. Twiggy was the first model to gain a profile outside fashion before making the jump into film. But she was also a comet-by , she'd burned out. In , she made a comeback as an actress, but despite some success, never again saw super-stardom.

By then, of course, many other women had donned the rainments of the supermodel, only to be disrobed by a public eager for the next new…thing. Thanks to a lift from Sports Illustrated' s swimsuit issue, Cheryl Tiegs revived the poster girl, and the supermodel phenomenon, when she crossed over from fashion into the worlds of the pinup and then the eponymous product marketer-a trajectory many wanna-be "supes" would follow thereafter.

Hers wasn't the only path to stardom. Janice Dickinson made it by doffing her clothes at every opportunity, Iman by hooking up with the socialite photographer Peter Beard, who billed her as fresh out of the African bush, even though she was the educated daughter of a diplomat.

Christie Brinkley parlayed her moment into several decades, and in the early s is a star-billed political activist. Patti Hansen and Jerry Hall married Rolling Stones and became celebrities through sexual association. But that path to staying power didn't always lead to the same destination. After Elaine Irwin married rocker John Mellen-camp, she fell from view, apparently content to be a wife and mother.

Irwin was one of ten supermodels photographed for Harper's Bazaar by Patrick Demarchelier in , the peak of Supermodeldom. All of their behind-the-scenes machinations helped create the supermodel moment. Each, in his own way, had seen a window of opportunity open in , when fashion's excesses of the preceding ten years, followed hard by a stock-market crash on Wall Street, and a worldwide recession, put an end to the designer decade that had been launched along with Calvin Klein jeans back in the pre-super s.

When the pouf dress-symbol of those heady days- went pop, the air went out of fashion and designers lost their way, just at the moment when the mass market seemed to have discovered them. The supermodels were used as a placeholder, a distraction, a way to keep the attention of the audience focused on fashion, while behind the scenes, the designers scurried around looking for a new message better suited to their times and their greatly expanded audience.

Only problem was the supes soon became the tail that wagged the dog of fashion. But truth be told, they couldn't sustain their "suzerainity. The fashion business was tired of them, too. The shelf life of models is generally seven years.