![]() The film starred Cindy, Tatjana, Linda, Stephanie and me. We didn’t understand how it might be perceived differently. We wanted to show her how much fun we were having. I was wearing an Isaac Mizrahi dress and at one point I said something completely ridiculous because there was another woman at the restaurant wearing the exact same dress I insisted I’d never wear it again and had to take mine off immediately. We took her to nightclubs and up to the West Side Highway to meet a couple of transvestites and then our friends from the House of Xtravaganza. So, we were dragging a heavily pregnant woman around with us to these different places trying to show her how cool we were. The journalist doing the interview, Elizabeth Sporkin (I don’t know why I remember that name), turned out to be heavily pregnant. It wasn’t necessarily something we’d plan for ourselves. We wanted to show the journalist a fun evening in New York: first dinner at Punch then a night on the town. When the piece came out, we understood we should never do interviews together again. ![]() Then a disaster: People magazine asked to interview Linda, Christy and me for their June 1990 issue. It was shot by Robert Mapplethorpe, who I never got to work with but always wish I had. I remember one campaign for Jasper Conran where they couldn’t get me, so they took my mother instead. There were so many incredible jobs on offer, and we often had to choose between them because we couldn’t be in two places at the same time. We were in the middle of it, too busy travelling with work. We had no idea how those things were being received. None of us really understood what impact we were having, particularly when we appeared together in the George Michael video or the Versace show. There were wild nights in New York, glamorous parties and frenzied fan moments, but ultimately this was just a group of girls, albeit with inherent aesthetic gifts, navigating their way through what was to become a historic moment for fashion. Here, she shares an extract, detailing what really went on in the '90s supermodel era, when she, Linda Evangelista, Christy Turlington, Cindy Crawford and a young Kate Moss reigned supreme. Now aged 50, she has released a book with Taschen, offering a candid journey through her career and personal life, exploring how a Black teenager from Streatham became a global force for change and equality. One of the most famous models in the world, Naomi Campbell has led an exceptional life.
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