Linda Evangelista is a Canadian supermodel who was born May 10th 1965 in St. Catharines, Ontario. Rarely has a haircut achieved so much for one career. Farrah Fawcetts feathered mane, Jennifer Annistons the Rachel, and the Beatles moptops are now Hall of Famers of hair history. But fashion fans of the 1980s know that Evangelista was a beautiful cover model known only to insiders until she cut off her long hair into a sophisticated bob that initially lost her runway work and then through magazine appearances somehow ignited her career until it went supernovae. Evanelista went on to be a fixture in the whole supermodel scene that made fashion models Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell, Claudia Schiffer and Christy Turlington the women du jour. Previously Twiggy, Cheryl Tiegs, Brooke Shields, Christie Brinkley and Iman had been iconic women in their own right, but they were mostly single top models of their moment. The late 1980s early 1990s supermodels were celebrities as famous as the products they were selling and young girls worldwide seemed to want to emulate them for their jetsetting lifestyle and arresting beauty. Evangelista epitomised the whole moment in time by her oft repeated quote that also helped turn the tide against the supermodels growing entitlement when she said: We don’t wake up for less than $10,000 a day.
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