Naomi Campbell.Photo: Steven Meisel
Naomi Campbell’s still got it.
At 51, the supermodel is fronting campaigns, covering magazines and strutting down the runway for some of fashion’s biggest names — includingVersaceand Saint Laurent — but admits the job has become a bit more intimidating as her career has endured.
“I’m 51 years old walking with girls who are 18,” Campbell told the publication. While Campbell may be walking the catwalk with a much younger crowd, she’s the one with loads of experience under her belt — and fashion icon is not afraid to make it known.
“I have to say, at one of the shows I was like, ‘Come on, girls! Pick up your feet! Why are you walking so slow?’ I definitely feel like my time was more joyful. We smiled! We got to show off our personalities.”
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Speaking further on her “time” modeling in the ’80s and ’90s alongside Cindy Crawford, Linda Evangelista and Christy Turlington Campbell told BritishVogue: “I was an incredible time, but we worked hard.”
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“No matter how many outfit changes, how many shows, we never said we were tired. We all loved it and we kept each other’s energy up. We did eight shows a day and then we would go and celebrate with the designers in the evening.”
Campbell added to BritishVogue: “I wonder sometimes if models now could have kept up with us.”
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Campbell made aspecial returnto the Alexander McQueen runway when she closed out the label’s Spring/Summer 2022 show in October 2021.
She hadn’t walked for the high-fashion label since McQueen’s death in 2010, so her catwalk cameo more than a decade later to model designs from creative director Sarah Burton’s new collection left the audience cheering.
“She wasn’t adopted – she’s my child,” she tells BritishVogue, adding that not many people knew she was going to become a mom at the time.
“I can count on one hand the number of people who knew that I was having her,” she shares. “But she is the biggest blessing I could ever imagine. It’s the best thing I’ve ever done.”
source: people.com
