Supermodels
Supermodels are highly paid, top fashion models. These (usually female) celebrities appear on top fashion magazine covers, in catalogues and in fashion shows.
The first model to pave the way for what would become the supermodel was Lisa Fonssagrives relationship between her image on over 200 Vogue covers and her name recognition led to the future importance of Vogue in shaping future supermodels. Fonssagrives at the height of her career could be both sophisticated and yet a kook, with which every American woman could identify.[citation needed] Her image appeared on the cover of every fashion magazine during the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s from Town & Country, Life and Vogue to the original Vanity Fair. Model Janice Dickinson, however, asserts that she was the person for which the term was coined. as she popped the term herself while talking to her agent at the climax of her career: "I'm not superman, I'm a supermodel".
Other notable supermodels and top models have included Twiggy, Gia Carangi, Lisa Snowdon, Karen Mulder, Tyra Banks, Christie Brinkley, Rachel Hunter, Christy Turlington, Jerry Hall, Lisa Butcher, Paula Hamilton, Marie Helvin, Huggy Ragnarsson, Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, Linda Evangelista, Elle Macpherson, Stephanie Seymour, Elizabeth Hurley, Claudia Schiffer, and Kate Moss. Currently, according several fashion world's personalities as Claudia Schiffer, Gisele Bündchen is the only true supermodel of her generation, although there are some others famous names as Doutzen Kroes, Alessandra Ambrosio, Carolyn Murphy, Laetitia Casta, Natalia Vodianova, Adriana Lima, Karolína Kurková, Daria Werbowy, Gemma Ward, Miranda Kerr, Alice Burdeu, Ana Beatriz Barros, Fernanda Tavares, Isabeli Fontana and Heidi Klum. Notable male models include Tyson Beckford, Marcus Schenkenberg, and Evandro Soldati.
