How the ‘Big Six’ still stay super
Can you name six of them? Yet the women who ruled those same runways 20 years ago — Claudia, Naomi, Cindy, Linda, Christy and Kate — need neither introductions nor surnames. And though ’30s cover girl Lisa Fonssagrives was the first ever “supermodel,” the moniker still defines any one of that “Big Six” in the public mind.
Since their 90s heyday, there have been many short-lived trends in modelling. Models like Gisele Bundchen and Natalia Vodianova made their mark, but no new crew has come close to emulating the effect the stars of George Michael’s Freedom ’90 video had on the MTV generation.
