The Originals

These days, we are in a supermodel revolution. Oh no, the Cara Delevingne's and Jourdan Dunn's of the world are the new girls. The originals were the ones who led this fashion reformation. Known as the 'Big Six', they were a group as powerful as the Avengers and as beautiful as Aphrodite herself. To get just the idea of them, here is a fact-file on them, so next time you know your stuff.

Christy Turlington

Full Name: Christy Nicole Turlington Burns

Date Of Birth: January 2nd 1969 (age 45), California

Height: 5ft 10in (1.78m)

Dress Size: 6 (UK)

Shoe Size: 6.5 (UK)

Hair Colour: Brown

Eye Colour: Green

Trademark: Her manikin likeness.

Career Highs: Moving to New York at 18, Turlington pursued her career, being signed by Calvin Klein in a seven figure deal in '89. She was hired for Versace's famous '91 couture show as well as appearing in George Michael's 'Freedom' video. She was christened 'The Face of the 21st Century by the New York Metropolitan Museum of art in 1993.

Personal Life: Turlington is married to actor Edward Burns with whom she has two children, Grace and Finn.

Current Status: Charity work and looking after her family. In 2010, she founded her own charity, Every Mother Counts, for improvements in maternal healthcare. 

Cindy Crawford

Full Name: Cynthia Ann Crawford

Date Of Birth: February 20th 1966, Illinois

Height: 5ft 9in (1.75m)

Dress Size: 8 (UK)

Shoe Size: 6 (UK)

Hair Colour: Brown

Eye Colour: Brown

Trademark: Her mole, which is just above her lip.

Career Highs: She was the first modern female model to pose nude for Playboy in 1988 and hosted MTV's House of Style. In '89, she signed a four year contract with beauty mega, Revlon. She also appeared in George Michael's Freedom Video and Versace's catwalk alongside Turlington. 

Personal Life: From 1991-95, Crawford was married to Richard Gere. In '98, she remarried Rande Gerber, a former model, with whom she knows has her son, Presley, and daughter, Kaia with.

Current Status: Being a general socialite and mother. She also does charity work with childrens oncology, after the death of her younger brother, Jeff, when she was 10.

Naomi Campbell

Full Name: Naomi Elaine Campbell

Date Of Birth: May 22nd 1970, South London

Height: 5ft 9.5ft (1.77m)

Dress Size: 6 (UK)

Shoe Size: 6 (UK)

Hair Colour: Brown

Eye Colour: Brown

Trademark: Being the first black model on the cover of French Vogue and Time.

Career Highs: As well as appearing in the same George Michael video as Crawford and Hurlington, she also appeared in Michael Jackson's "In The Closet". She has been on hundreds of covers and has walked many a catwalk, famously slipping at Vivienne Westwood's '93 show in foot-high platforms.

Personal Life: Over the years, Campbell has dated numerous celebrities such as Mike Tyson, Robert De Niro and Adam Clayton. Her latest relationship was with Russian businessman Vladislav Doronin, which ended in 2013. She has no children. 

Current Status: Campbell generally publisizes and socialises as well as appearing on a few different versions of television programme, 'The Face'.

Linda Evangelista

Full Name: Linda Evangelista
Date of Birth: May 10th 1965, Ontario
Height: 5ft 9in (1.75m)
Dress Size: 8 (UK)
Shoe Size: 8 (UK)
Hair Colour: Brown
Eye Colour: Blue-Green
Trademark: Her ever-changing hair cuts and styles.
Career Highs: Evangelista has covered the crème de la crème of magazine covers and has walked and modelled for all of the highest designers imaginable. Think of a designer or a magazine, well, she's been there and done that. 
Personal Life: In 1987, she married the head of Elite Modelling Agency, Gerald Marie. They divorced in 1993. In 1999, she became pregnant but gave birth to a still-born baby due to it being 3 months premature. Evangelista went on to have a son, Augustin James, in 2006, who's father was later revealed to be François-Henri Pinault, husband to Salma Hayek.
Current Status: Evangelista has been very much out of the news since the revealing of her son's father. 

Kate Moss

Full Name: Kate Moss
Date of Birth: January 16th 1984, Croydon - London
Height: 5ft 7in (1.70m)
Dress Size: 6 (UK)
Shoe Size: 6.5 (UK)
Hair Colour: Blonde (dyed)
Eye Colour: Hazel
Trademark: Her waifish look
Career Highs: Her big break was in 1993, where she famously led the Calvin Klein campaign, which was recently replicated. Through her years, she has been in many a magazine, wearing or walking for an acclaimed designer. In recent years, she has released two ranges with Topshop.
Personal Life: Moss has one daughter, Lila Grace, with editor Jefferson Hack. After a tumultuous relationship and engagement with The Libertines' front man, Pete Doherty, she married Jamie Hince in 2011, wearing John Galliano.
Current Status: Moss is still modelling and is currently the cover of British Vogue.

Claudia Schiffer

Full Name: Claudia Schiffer
Date of Birth: August 25th 1970, Rhineberg 
Height: 5ft 11in (1.81m)
Dress Size: 10 (UK)
Shoe Size: 6 (UK)
Hair Colour: Blonde
Eye Colour: Blue
Trademark: Her luscious, long blonde locks
Career Highs: Becoming the face of Chanel and starring in the Guess campaign in the early '90's, as well as appearing on over 500 magazine catwalks and many a catwalk.
Personal Life: From 1994 to 1999, Schiffer was engaged to magician, David Copperfield, after meeting at one of his shows in 1993. She went on to marry film director, Matthew Vaughn with whom she has her son, Caspar, and daughters, Clementine and Cosima.
Current Status: In the last year, Schiffer has entered business ventures of the likes of her own haircare production and film producing alongside her husband.

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