Kathy Ireland achieved 13 consecutive Sports Illustrated swimsuit issues. In a brilliant move, she founded licensing company kathy ireland Worldwide (kiWW), worth billions.
Tatjana Patitz career skyrocketed around the turn of the decade with an iconic January 1990 British Vogue cover (alongside Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell, Christy Turlington, and Linda Evangelista)
Christie Brinkley is an American model. Brinkley appeared on an unprecedented three consecutive covers of Sports IllustratedSwimsuit Issues in 1979, 1980, and 1981. She spent 25 years as the face of CoverGirl.
Brinkley went on to work as an actress, illustrator, television personality, photographer, writer, designer, and activist for human and animal rights and the environment. Magazines such as Allure and Men's Health have named Brinkley one of the most attractive women of all time.[4]
Lauren Hutton is an American model and actress. Though she was initially dismissed by agents for a signature gap in her teeth, Hutton signed a modeling contract with Revlon in 1973, which at the time was the biggest contract in the history of the modeling industry.
Gisele Bündchen is a Brazilian fashion model. Since 2001, she has been one of the highest-paid models in the world. Vogue credited Bündchen with ending the heroin chic era of modeling in 1999 Bündchen was a Victoria's Secret Angel from 1999 until 2006. She is credited with pioneering and popularizing the horse walk, a stomping movement created by a model lifting her knees high and kicking her feet to step. Claudia Schiffer called Bündchen the only remaining supermodel.[12] Bü
Doutzen Kroes is a Dutch fashion model. She began her modelling career in 2003, in the Netherlands and was quickly sent by her agency to New York where she was cast by lingerie brand Victoria’s Secret. She was a Victoria's Secret Angel from 2008 until 2014 .Kroes has been one of the highest-paid models, with an estimated income of more than $5 million per year, since 2008. Ranked as one of the "New Supers" in the fashion industry and dubbed "Helen of Troy of advertising" , she became the first model to land four different solo international covers of Vogue's September issue in a single year.
Katherine Ann Moss is an English model Arriving towards the end of the "supermodel era", Moss rose to fame in the early 1990s as part of the heroin chic fashion trend. Her collaborations with Calvin Klein brought her to fashion icon status. She is known for her waifish figure, and role in size zero fashion. Moss has had her own clothing range, has been involved in musical projects, and is also a contributing fashion editor for British Vogue. In 2012, she came second on the Forbes top-earning models list, with estimated earnings of $9.2 million in one year. The accolades she has received for modelling include the 2013 British Fashion Awards acknowledging her contribution to fashion over 25 years, while Time named her one of the world's 100 most influential people in 2007.
A subject of media scrutiny due to her partying lifestyle, Moss was involved in a drug use scandal in September 2005, which led to her being dropped from fashion campaigns. She was cleared of charges and soon resumed modelling.
A $2.8m gold statue of her was sculpted in 2008 for a British Museum exhibition.