Naomi Campbell stands out for being 'the' supermodel amongst supermodels, who has sashayed around the globe, graced innumerable magazine covers and lived a life so extraordinary, scarcely will the next generation believe such a beauteous creature ever existed. P.Ramakrishnan was in conversation with the catwalk queen.
Controversy’s favourite fledgling, the only supermodel to grace the cover of TIME, Naomi Campbell, 35, is indubitably the most astonishing sight to behold our attention for now nearly two decades (she was but a teen when she started her illustrious career).
The fab five a decade ago were not the makeover specialists from a mediocre TV show, they were the vainglorious divas that included the elite, impenetrable circle of Claudia Schiffer, Christy Turlington, Cindy Crawford, Linda Evangelista and Naomi Campbell. A heady brew of extreme beauty, power, wealth and fame, they were the deities destined for idle worship. Strutting, sauntering and sizzling when they made US$10,000 per show (the infamous Evangelista quote!), when they dated actors and rockstars (um, all of them!), spent more time on air than the ground as they pirouetted around the planet.
Post-millennium, where are the supermodels of this decade? Pretenders to the throne, there are many who come in with a bang, and leave without a whimper. In a profession where hitting 24 is the kiss of death, Campbell’s pouty lips still smirk across the A-list publications.
You’ve been defining what beautiful is to the world for over a decade now. The only black supermodel to make the cover of TIME magazine and, though there are other aspects that make you the defining supermodel, your career’s largely dependent on your looks. Do you worry about your looks?
Well, my mother [fashion designer and sometime model Valerie Campbell] looks wonderful and I hope I inherit that from her. But no, I don’t worry about my looks. I take care of myself.
TBC...
Please note that this tele-conversation with the supermodel, part-time actress/singer/author and full time diva Naomi Campbell was conducted days before… well, let’s call it the unfortunate, headline making, stop-the-press breaking incident! You know, the one with ‘the actress’ claiming Campbell attacked her. A headline that’s cropped up annually over the last decade. The case is still pending as we go to print...
Published in Kee magazine,
Fall 2005
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