JANICE Dickinson, the self-proclaimed World’s First Supermodel, has claimed Kendall Jenner and the Hadid sisters simply can’t compare to Cindy Crawford and the Fab Four, also including Christy Turlington, Naomi Campbell and Linda Evangelista.
In an exclusive interview with The U.S. Sun Janice, 68, opened up about her feelings on the new Apple + docuseries Super Models, and how reality-star models today don’t compare to the iconic 90’s stars featured in the show.
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Janice said Cindy, Naomi, Christy and Linda all had the ‘It factor.”
“They took that and they ran with it, and these women worked for it.
“You can’t compare the Bella and Gigi Hadid or Kendall Jenner to the to the Fab Four. You just can’t. They don’t hold up.”
To not slight the Hadids or Kendall, Jancie added: “For what they’re delivering, they’re doing a great job.”
The supermodel said that anyone these days can be transformed into a supermodel with the right tricks.
“You get a brand like Vogue behind you and they can turn anyone into a model with the clothes, the hair, the makeup, the retouching, they can turn anybody into a star.
“They can even turn you into a supermodel,” she quipped.
“But these women [the Fab Four], they learned how to become great, great models.
“I think this series is brilliant and I think the girls are wonderful in it, but I don’t think production captured a 10th of how hard these girls worked from what we’ve seen so far.”‘
WORK IT
The model, who skyrocketed to fame in the 70’s and 80’s for her catwalk persona, explained: “I was working morning, noon and night, and these women worked and they’re completely intelligent and smart. I just didn’t see a lot of that showcased so far.
“It doesn’t really get into the real nitty gritty and work that these supermodels endured on a regular basis.”
“These women wouldn’t give up, they were like tanks, they just kept going.
“And the agents and bookers were taking huge cuts of these girls’ paychecks, so they had them out there working morning, noon and night doing bookings, because how do you learn? From experience.”
‘IT’ FACTOR VS THE SOCIAL MEDIA EFFECT
The difference between the models of the present day and the supermodels who graced glossy magazine covers, Janice added, is social media.
“The difference is social media, the girls on television have their own following on social media, which transpires into people becoming followers of these girls.”
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“Taylor Swift and Selena Gomez have millions and millions of followers, if they wanted to be supermodels, they could if that is what they wanted to do,” she explained.
As for Cindy, Naomi, Christy and Linda, the 68-year-old model added: “I gotta say they learned a lot from looking at the stuff that that that we laid out in the 80s. Who do you look to for ideas? You look to those who walk before you.
“I learned a lot from Lauren Hutton, she was my idol.
“So you look for models that have come before you and you say, ‘I’m going to imitate this or that’ from the models who came before me, because I don’t have anything else to imitate.”
THE NEXT ‘SUPER MODELS’ SERIES?
Janice said that while she has so far been impressed by the Super Models series, she would like to see earlier generations, such as her own, highlighted next.
“I think they should do the models of the 60s 70s and 80s next. These girls were great, but they weren’t as great as the girls in the 80s.
“I don’t think the 90s generation had the beat and the punch and the pop culture that it did back in the 70s and 80s,” she added.
“Not only did we have the models, but we had the art scene, you know with Keith Haring and Kenny Scharf and Jean-Michel Basquiat.
“We had the famous artists like The Rolling Stones and Duran Duran who went to all the fashion shows.
“We had rock and rollers at every show front row, looking at the models.
“It was more star-studded and more power-packed than the 90s Girls” Janice added of her time modeling.
The outspoken model has stayed in the spotlight despite stepping away from the runway in the 80s to have children.
She recently was a contestant on the British reality show I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here!, and she has been booking club gigs performing her dance songs.
“I’m on my sixth song of an LP of dance songs, it’s fun and it’s enjoyable and it’s a completely different thing than modeling.
“It comes from the same confidence grab bag that you have to have to be a model,” Janice said.
“And I’ll be doing a documentary of my own one day.”
Her songs I Coined It (I’m the original Super Model), Floor and Get Into It are on Apple Music.
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