Announced October 6 of 2020, the much-anticipated documentary directed by two-time Academy Award Winner Barbara Kopple, set to premier this September 20, will focus on Linda Evangelista, Christy Turlington, Naomi Campbell, and Cindy Crawford ascent into Supermodels and the Fours impact on the fashion industry. The Supermodels also cover the friendships of the Supers as well as their individual careers, activism, philanthropy, and business ventures.
Fashion industry icons like Peter Lindbergh and Gianni Versace were so instrumental in the formation of the modern Supermodel, which was inaugurated in the October 1988 issue of British Vogue titled World Class of 88. These complicated, multihyphenate, dauntless women became not only the heroines of fashion but heralds of an unforgettable time in culture and art still beloved to this day:
“I was rather uninspired with the way women were photographed in the ’80s. I was trying to photograph them in a different way, but nobody seemed to care back then… I wanted to move away from the rather formal, quite perfectly styled woman who was very artificial. I was more concerned about a more outspoken, adventurous woman in control of her life and not too concerned about her social status or emancipated by masculine protection. My ideal was always the young women I met in art school, very independent and who could speak for themselves. The supermodels represented this change. It explains why they dominated the visual world for many years.”
–Peter Lindbergh for Air UK November 2016
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Vogue UK Jun 1991 By Herb Ritts
Vogue Italia Feb 1991 by Peter Lindbergh
Vogue Italia Dec 1989 by Steven Meisel
Chanel Spring/Summer 1991 by Karl Lagerfeld
“Not attracted by the opulent aesthetics of the 1980s, Lindbergh transformed “his” women into heroines of our times: models who became performers, personalities who became supermodels to later be known only by their first names.”
–Thierry-Maxime Loriot
And maybe we’re just kids who’ve grown
And maybe not
And maybe when we’re on our own
We don’t have much
But oh, we are young and not tired of it
Oh, we are young and easily lead
Oh, with all the kids getting out of their heads
Oh, Class A, Class B
Is that the only chemistry?
Oh, Class A, Class B
Is that the only chemistry
Between us
Super Love Unknown 
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