Fashion File : LINDA EVANGELISTA

some women die each year 184,000 women diagnosed with breast cancer and we can minimize those statistics if you know we can just raise the awareness and I've been personally affected by it so anything I do even fight in touch a few people when you look at the X Box people I think I'd feel much more comfortable modeling but they asked me to host so this is new for me I'm a little nervous there's such a great vibe here what we wanted to do is to expand the horizons of the campaign and really have spokespersons too who were in the relevant worlds that Mac is involved so in selecting Boy George Christina Aguilera Missy Elliott Chloe Sevigny and Linda really was our fashion to play max Claiborne so am i and about 20 years ago I started modeling and that's when Mac was born and I found this little spice lip pencil and it was sort of the same color as my mouth but better and it kind of became my trademark the pencil and I helped push it a bit well I insisted on wearing it and so yeah I've always used Mac people just don't come back like this in her line of work and yet here's Linda Evangelista of the four years out of the spotlight generating the kind of heat that her industry has lacked since 12 since that first fabulous wave of supermodels eased off the global stage in the mid-1990s Evangelista helped write the script for a good decade's worth of fashion history we don't wake up for less than $10,000 a day she once joked and who instantly misquoted words became instantly emblematic of an era but if those days are gone Evangelista herself still has a lot to say for a new era the icon is reborn person and I've changed a lot and I feel like I know exactly where I'm going and what I'm doing and I'm in control everything I've said in the past is now officer maybe I had to go through all that hysteria to get to where I am today and where she's God at this particular moment is a spark on Canada's Walk of Fame in Toronto where she unveiled her own star in the company of other illustrious Canadians Mike Myers Shania Twain Robbie Robertson people whose professional achievements have like Evangelista change the industries in which they work I taught Lindy in grade 6 to help present her award Evangelista selected her favorite teachers in a fine advertisement for the power of education to mold young minds I taught Linda in grade 7 and 8 and her smile lit up the classroom she was a very hard worker determined dedicated with a great sense of humor and an infectious giggle now there's something you wrote in her yearbook that you need to share with us I think something I really believed in I said see you on the cover of Vogue I did know early on that I wanted to model I had no idea what's going to happen yet and I guess they knew it too and I didn't ever think it possible to be on the cover of Vogue I thought it was just a very nice thing of her to say what was it about modeling that attracted you at such an early age add a little taut you could see how obsessed I was already with the fashion and my mom was sewing for me and already had what looked like a Chanel belt and a Chanel purse with this red jumpsuit and major attitude posing in my pictures when I was just tiny and you know my Barbies those poor things got dressed and undressed and so many times and I would raid my aunts closets and my mother I would beg her for more clothes and she would so many outfits I already loved it I was really a girly girl I already loved the fantasy of it and looking beautiful and dreaming about fashion Evangelista smother indulge your daughter's passion by enrolling her in modeling school and at 15 she entered the Miss Teen Niagara pageant she didn't win a trophy but she got noticed by a scout for elite models paved the way for her move to New York in 1984 but she slowly nurtured her career it's impossible to overestimate the impact that Linda Evangelista has had on her profession and on her industry fashion might like to think it's all about change that actually likes to stay the same as much as possible so when it's confronted by a creature for who metamorphosis is second nature a riot ensues blame it on the hair the inescapable co-star of the Evangelista story the big break was a cut in 1988 I said to Linda one of the Cuddy here and then like a month later she just walked in the studio and said I'm ready now and that's already talking about I will come here I said oh no no no no I don't want to be responsible for this because she looked amazing no this is longer and then Julian Julian was a hairdresser he just took her whole hair path back like this no and took it back and hold it back and said is everybody okay and she is not crying and he just you know Wow it was gone in one after the cut came color shade after shade after shade hair is a powerful signifier in ancient myths and legends but nobody ever wielded it's fatal attraction like Linda what's the thing you're most tired of been asked what's your next hair color has it been fun doing it though knowing the effect that it has another people always in the beginning like the haircut oh my god at a time when everybody has long hair she has short hair they didn't get it at the beginning and now people they don't they don't care what hair color and they book me for me not for my hair color yeah but you know when you've been called the Madonna of the modeling world for example and well I adore but I don't you know when you look at Madonna you just get the sense that she's having a lot of fun twisting people's preconceptions trying to twist I just think it would be it would be a fun element that it's part of the the job seeing that you're under a lot of pressure all the time I don't want to make you defensive any reaction is good reaction as long as they notice so it's fine I don't really care if they approve or not NATO on fashion file focus is everything I've done everything I wanted to do I've gotten everything I wanted to get had a really good and I'm still going Evangelista was a compelling news to photographers as much as four designers and one of the most dynamic creative partnerships was with Steven Mizell what made the Mizell Evangelista relationship so special was a collaborative intensity that suggested the great director actress partnerships of film rather than fashion under Meisels direction Evangelista evoked to an almost eerie degree the spirits of celluloid icons the ones that lingered longest were her recreations of the bombshells of Italian cinema for Italian Vogue and for Dolce & Gabbana's ad campaigns always thought it was funny that you said you weren't interested in acting when it seemed to me that that was what you did you played so many different roles for every to think you did in a sense I guess it is acting but I can't imagine wearing the same outfit for three months and repeating myself over and over and over again I would think of a shoot like oh I have to I want to go somewhere else tomorrow and wear something different and it's not my dream but one should never say never I've learned in life and it's just I'm not I'm not that interested in it what makes a model super look back at the late 80s and you can see an unusual confluence of events charismatic photographers adventurers editors advertisers with deep pockets and a new wave of models who in a break with tradition work just as well on the catwalk as they did in a magazine the first designer to really appreciate the power of such a coherent presentation was Janney Versace Musashi realized that the supermodels could function as a living breathing extension of his extravagant fashion aesthetic Gianni can take a lot a lot a lot of credit for me sitting here today and talking to you he was our biggest backer he really believed in us I don't know if he knew what he was doing or if it just happened the way it happened but he had a lot to do with the creation of the super model I think he loved movies so much that he realized it was possible to make movie stars out of models well he was the epitome of glamorous and I don't know just he was just always so enthusiastic and everything was just so I don't know if the dresses were just more more was more and I don't know I just worked and it wasn't just for Sachi Linda's own willingness to go farther and farther out coalesced with the sensibility of the similarly maximal fashion Buccaneer John Galliano to produce images so purely Hollywood that they transcend fashion iconography we were thinking the other day of you and the the yellow dress and the pinups collection for Galliano just the most kind of memorable images we have that dress in my bedroom it's the first thing I see when I wake up in the morning that's such a happy dress you have a warehouse I haven't it's starting to fall apart it's on a mannequin in my bedroom but that's one of my favorite moments in fashion personal it's a heartfelt working with him another designer you have you've had a really long and fruitful relationship with I imagine that you know as a little girl obsessed with fashion I would have thought that would be quite an experience for young fashion addict as well you can name me any designer and I'm gonna go off on them because they all excite me they all excite me that I am passionate about Chanel especially the accessory it said Carl would sometimes torture me and not give me any accessories because he said they weren't necessary and you knew I would be suffering without them you say I just want you and I want it all the glitter that went with it now Dolce and Gabanna let you get in touch with your Italian roots and play all those fabulous sort of fifties you know bombshell like man Yanni and Gina Lollobrigida and people was that a big part of was that it was that something that was really lovely for you to be able to be Italian sex goddess that was the stuff that was more the closest to the real me a fiery laugh the first wave of supermodels had an all-consuming effect on fashion there were never really more than a handful of them that resistance was futile during the late 80s and early 90s these girls had a lock on success it's not hard to imagine how frustrating the situation must have been for everyone locked out of that inner circle so it's equally easy to appreciate how there was a huge pool of people ready willing and able to feed the myths of dividend and according to them there was no greater diva than la Linda I'm not a I'm just very defensive and at work if somebody doesn't do their job I'm difficult okay there's a sort of tabloid element to the coverage isn't there that that they're quoting friends you know unacknowledged friends saying well that quote about the clock ticking and so on I mean of course it's ticking and of course once we're on the top where are you gonna go there's nowhere to go after you're at the top I'm not stupid and I'm not I've done everything I wanted to do I've gotten everything I wanted to get and I'm not not bitter I had a really good time and I'm still going later on fashion file the perfect model returns when you talk about fashion as you talk about models everybody say Linda 12 years ago who knew at that time the supermodel phenomenon would develop such legs Evangelista herself seemed so cool and self-aware that it's hardly innocence that comes to mind when one looks at those old images yet there was a paradoxical innocence about these young woman's throwing it to the deep end of fame for being pretty faces in retrospect I look back and think wow I would have done things a lot differently and said things a lot differently I just wasn't I don't know what was happening it was happening so fast and it just seems like another time another period if I would have known then what I know today I think I would have slowed it down a bit I just I didn't appreciate so much what was going on I didn't have the time to there is a sense where the Vangelis has returned that this time she's more in charge of events carefully orchestrating a future for herself by cherry-picking the highest-profile gigs Chanel Oh cooter a Dolce & Gabana show don't call it a comeback few models have enjoyed that luxury in their careers but however out of control life may have been Evangelista always did manage to give the impression that she was the boss not much has changed with fashion changes but the faces were all the same backstage I got to see the new girl and how do you feel about it when you look at when you have Linda on the catwalk for you when you think about that moment for you know we have emotion when I see her a big emotion because I don't see we don't see her for five year when she walked and the fashion show Linda she's an icon for the new generation of the model for the new generation of the photographer when you talk about fashion I talk about model everybody say Linda before the four to two shots for 2003 everyone concluded Jean Paul Gautier who chose Evangelista is a star of the show and allowed us a rare behind-the-scenes glimpse the way character is crucial towards individual stamps okay I am there's no detention this is real jerk real Jay can you imagine I think we find that it's all jail you know from that xx but I think you know that it was made not for fashion it was made for maybe decoration and she is like strong and very beautiful she is very sophisticated and she's maximum glamorous and for me she's sir Top Model coming up on fashion file Linda glows a little brighter you know sometimes you have people like up there like a comet's like everybody's like mesmerized by hair well the second Peter Lindbergh who's been there from the very beginning we headed to our in the South of France to watch Linda and Lindbergh working together for French Elle it's amazing I mean I would say look in the camera after like I wouldn't work for her like if he was here for two years oh god what I mean what did I what did all this yes but I didn't work with her there are few favorite models but she was probably the most talented everything is happening around her she can transform an expression or and something it can help her to get a great image it's an education watching Evangelista make a picture the patient perfectionism raises the game of everyone around her but equally you get the sense that she needs them to lift her after all she can't always rely on the clothes these people are for the duration of the shoot her family which is why her best work has always been achieved with the same tight team of people it's very pleasant for her like just to start and working with people she likes and she brings so many things for everybody in this business everybody you know sometimes you have people like that that like comments like you don't know where they're coming from and they're like big surprise everybody's beautiful on the surface Evangelista is still to a mystifying time defying degree the formidable beauty we remember but go deeper and there's a new reflectiveness a candor a vulnerability which has given her beautifully appointed haunting edge do you feel you have a lot more to express now in your work because of what you've been through in the time that you were off I think because I feel like I'm a better person today and a more balanced person but I can actually do a better job than I used to you think what you do is about knowing yourself or finding yourself Wow doesn't deep I haven't found myself yeah I'm still working on that again like a great actress and reinvents herself over time Linda Evangelista is a work in progress

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Keywords: Linda Evangelista (Film Actor), Fashion (Industry), Supermodelo (TV Program)

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Length: 22min 8sec (1328 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 23 2016