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Stephanie Seymour, one of the legendary supermodels to emerge from the 1990s, was asked by Vanity Fair to describe this generation’s crop of pretty young things.
“Bitches of the moment!” she joked.
“Supermodels are sort of the thing of the past. They deserve their own title,” Seymour said diplomatically.
“[Kendall and Gigi] are beautiful girls, and I support all of them, but they need their own title.
“They are completely different than we were,” Seymour explained, referring to her contemporaries Linda Evangelista, Claudia Schiffer, Helena Christenson, Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell and Cindy Crawford.
“Modeling was more of a mysterious back then. The talent could get weird with super-rich men, do tons of drugs and get away with so much more because reality TV and social media didn’t exist.
Unfortunately, those two things are largely responsible for Jenner and Hadid’s careers.
“Because there weren’t cameras around us all the time, we got away with so much more and had so much more fun,” Seymour said.
“We didn’t have people watching us all the time, and we weren’t putting ourselves out there in a way that was turning the media against us or for us in any way.
“We still had our privacy, and there was more of an illusion behind the girls. You lose your illusion when you give much of yourself away, and that’s what I don’t like about it.”
Rebecca Romijn was a bit more critical in describing how much the world of modeling has changed.
I know a lot of people — legitimate fashion people — can’t stand it,” Romijn told Entertainment Tonight.
“Hate it that these, you know, social media stars are now the supermodels in fashion. They are not true supermodels.”
The same could be said for models trying to become actresses, Madame Romijn…