Model Documentary - Naomi Campbell

I always say my interviews that I'm not a perfect human being I can make mistake with anybody else so don't expect too much again don't prepare a pedestal sexy strong and smart at age 25 supermodel Naomi Campbell has done more than most could hope to accomplish in a lifetime she's part Jamaican part Chinese all exotic she can go from diva to darling at the drop of a hat and looking really beautiful with her hair cut short or long and wild her fine features have appeared on countless magazine covers her best body in the business figure has strolled the catwalks for every major design house around the world Naomi doesn't walk down the runway she prowls seeing her in action it's surprising to learn that Naomi never planned a future in fashion I never dreamed of been a model because it wasn't when set out to be I wanted to be a dancer so and me the whole business was took captive me by surprise perhaps the biggest surprise came to Naomi's great school classmates in London England when they learned of her success as a child she wasn't known for her looks they said like at school olive oil so olive oil olive oil and I was called twigs twigs and thankee and all these I wasn't pretty Wow but that's all changed today Naomi's beauty is an undisputed fact but she's much more than a pretty face as a businesswoman she partnered with fellow supermodels Elle Macpherson Claudia Schiffer and Christy Turlington to open New York's fashion cafe in 1995 it's success has inspired the girls to launch restaurants in New Orleans London Rome and Barcelona with more on the way I think it's become a major business for us girls I don't think there's ever gonna be that group again for some reason that media focus on so much I mean we all got enough to do different things you know daring to be different Naomi also dabbles in acting she first appeared in George Michaels 1990 freedom video and then went on to play the object of Michael Jackson's desire in his in the closet video on film naomi has bewitched the camera in the French documentary based on her life entitled la Li Zhong they top models Naomi Campbell her other credits include roles in Miami Rhapsody girls six and unzipped I won't really said I've acted I've enough done cameos movies I'm doing coming on this new movie Annan Smitty produces and Ivana did Evita movies are still the tip of the iceberg naomi has authored two books and recorded a CD called baby women that tops the charts in Japan but no matter what she does or where her travels take her fans worldwide clamor just to be in Naomi's presence I'm very fortunate and I know that and I have to be doing what I do and I didn't have to be discovered so I remember those things in the next thirty minutes Naomi will travel the globe from the catwalks of New York City's Fashion Week to Barcelona Spain where fans flock as she celebrates the opening of a new fashion cafe and on her way to Paris Naomi makes her quick stop in Beverly Hills for all last-minute shopping spree at Lille AC this is beautiful simple a beautiful simple and sexy where anywhere yeah I get very excited by antique clothing I've always been teetering cuz it's antique and it it's got a history behind it as a culture now at the peak of her modeling career Naomi Campbell is in constant demand during New York's Fashion Week after a grueling morning on the runways she arrives back stage for the Anna Sui collection her sixth show of the day I'm always nervous actually even now even after all these years of fun when I do runway because um I mean you shut every type of a performance and spontaneous when it's live she may have a case of the jitters on the inside but at the surface Naomi is all business she sits patiently as stylists begin to work we're there to do what they want that's the way they've the look of the show I don't think ever say and we shouldn't because that's part of our job and that's what we get paid to do people basically just think it's really superficial and just you know we're doing our work just to someone else's doing their work whether to show the clothes and ourselves and that's what should come across before the show designer annecy stops to wish naomi well they only gives high marks to Anna's creations they're very feminine very sexy very fresh and I've always thought that Anna had and has a very English kind of vibe to her which is that why I think that we connected I love dressing her it's it's a dream to dress down with less than an hour before showtime there's no time for idle chitchat even the reporters are left waiting naomi needs her makeup to be flawless for an appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman later this evening top stylist Francois NARS takes a look the first makeup artist to ever met when I came to New York when I was 16 for American Vogue and he's incredible because he doesn't change you don't wipe your personality away from your face once Francois finished Naomi must wind her way through the congested backstage area to sit with the hair stylists you never used to be this favorite now it's like there's thousands of cameras there's more camera crews there models and photographers and it's very hectic and it's a little hysterical but I understand the media for the designers and they need to have that I just sometimes when they get in the way and they get it untrue so that can be a little I'm setting for the models and we need to be kept in a good mood I think because we are there to perform and do our best that's important Naomi's distinctive style is apparent on the runway in fact it's an inherited trait my mother was a contemporary ballet dancer she did for many years and my first show shows when you do this and she's walking down the hallway in the house and showing me how to take off my coat and stuff like that I'm very happy with my life to still be more than 10 years later and still be doing so well and still be fortunate to be getting to work with great people coming up Naomi and fellow supermodel Claudia Schiffer to her Barcelona's fashion cafe but first during a book signing Naomi is reunited with a face from her past whatever you want to try in life you should try I think she'd ever not try because that being criticized not content to confine herself to the world of modeling Naomi Campbell is expanding her talents as an author her latest offering is a self-titled pictorial biography while visiting New York for Fashion Week Naomi attends a signing at a downtown bookstore Thank You dawn it's a big memory basically it's like I've been doing this I've been in this business for ten years and it's just a collaboration of all the things I've ever done the toughest I've ever worked with with friends and family and just that for me it's like a big diary do not cause my apartment anymore for Naomi writing books is a natural extension of one of her passions I love reading biographies recently I was I just read The Celestine Prophecy and James Redfield over and also the follow-up to that attempt inside and then I can switch tonight just finished reading Mario put so the God guided work the godfathers the dawn yeah I'm um playing so much that you know I get a chance to read which is great no one can get to you there's no phones ring in and you can just cut off you have public waiting Naomi's book captures many candid moments in her life choosing a favorite is easy I think the pictures taken by my actual fellow my friend Christine he's also my colleague and work and partner in the restaurant to speak of this and totally I'm not posing have no makeup I'm singing an airport and that's kind of fun to see it's people always expect if you look so glamorous you know you don't always you get pimples like everybody else I put this spot green that my doctor gives me it's pink and my full - has to see me at night ago pink spots all over my face that's the only thing I can do after pleasing the paparazzi Naomi greets the crowd Thank You reassigned to thankful for her success Naomi feels she has an obligation to her fans if they come there and they wait so long and I think it's rude not to to do so so I think you know I want to I wanted to time please anyone but you cannot please I won't you fight as much as you can oh my god I remember so wrong now I took him to my 21st birthday party with me he was my date and it is really sweet because he had the pictures which I've lost I have to no hug for personal appearances like this leave Naomi with a great sense of satisfaction I'd say every day when I got this done today and I go achieve this today I'm still that person taking each day at a time and I just think I want to be able to say when I get older I tried this and I tried that and the bail that didn't work whatever it did work whatever but at least when I get to a certain aid and say well I'm not gonna grip anything in my life I lived my life to the fullest which I think I am doing coming up jet-setting supermodel Naomi Campbell excites her European fans at Fashion cafes grand opening in Barcelona thank you very much for coming out and supporting fashion Cape Everest Ilona burr has only added to her frequent flyer miles today she joins co-owners and fellow supermodels Elle Macpherson and Claudia Schiffer in Barcelona Spain for the grand opening of the newest addition to their fashion cafe family oh yeah started in 1995 April 7 and we've now got five running we've got seven in construction and we've got like ten planned the first order of business is an afternoon press conference welcome and thank you for coming to the opening press conference for the fashion cafe Barcelona it's great to have a place of our own like everyone else has their own theme lines my bus tour and the fashion industry has their own themed landmark restaurant during the press conference naomi has offered an interesting proposal from a Spanish fan Naomi he wants to know if you are willing to open a fashion cafe with him in Sevilla where he lives and you would love to get married with you thank you thank you don't mess up you can't marry you and we very much like to open fashion cafes all over Spain so you'd like step come talk to tomorrow myself or tal afterwards we can talk about your future investment with fashion cafe these ladies may be beautiful but they are all business after the press conference their promotional agenda continues with one-on-one interviews and a tour of the new restaurant welcome to fashion cafe Barcelona okay are you coming this dress belongs to Jackie Onassis really beautiful painting and this is the entrance all of them are like ask our opinions this is like going to the photographer's eyes the world in fashion right it's a dress of that our own Valentino designed a special order and of us did this one the people aqua beautiful dress mascot is boat cover here they always look over there this area seats 200 we can fit 200 dinners upstairs you have 800 square meters just go Ted and then a big one way yeah actually the wrong way that you can move out electrically it'll move out it's quite a big space in it yeah hi hola this is our kitchen yep this is the menu this is our chef the BC the way open amoral oh excuse me Monsieur I'm better pairing for tonight's event using the fashion cafe as proof naomi is happy to dispel the popular perception that models don't need the OEM survival's lab the entities travel the way we do is just impossible I think it's just the myth that people like to think that we don't need but we absolutely do it won't just be Tomatoes and you're going to be bred and yeah then already in other words it's it's a little earlier you know we're in Barcelona everything starts really late and it's gonna be mad in here tonight I love the kitchen always and every and every reverse fashion content bad guys end up in the kitchen I like to pick I mean obviously the theme restaurant is not all about food it's also the museum part but yeah it's good when the tour is finished Naomi leaves to prepare for the grand opening several hours later she makes an elegant entrance in her hotel lobby escorted by her date famed flamenco dancer Joaquin Cortez and wearing a dress designed especially for tonight Miami receives an enthusiastic reception from the crowd that she's ready for it when we felt like a media event okay never really or Musical or something on restaurant you know what to expect so your mind is mentally ready and set for that type of thing when Naomi arrives at Fashion Cafe a few minutes later she's greeted by more fans and this time she really gives them something to scream about thank you very much for coming out and supporting fashion Cape Albert cilona we are extremely happy to open in Barcelona and well I know Jeff Ilona once inside the restaurant it's not long before Naomi disappears into the crowd to party the night away we just want people to enjoy themselves more people to like the restaurant to come back basically taken apart of us with and when they leave up next Naomi hops a plane to Los Angeles for an impromptu shopping spree that's beautiful Naomi is basically not shy and she'll if she's really comfortable around people she'll walk around kind of undressed in a long time ago people saw her come in they would hang out in front of the store waiting to like catch glimpses after a hectic but successful fashion cafe opening in Barcelona Naomi Campbell is once again on the go this time she finds herself in Los Angeles California her day long shoot at a Hollywood film studio has ended early leaving her with a rare moment of free time we take it in yeah okay no did you meet Richard this is let's say where we are we're in Lily this is reach an owner most amazing antique store most amazing collection addresses ever in the world and we all can I love thank you but Naomi is referring to are the many models and celebrities who like to keep this Beverly Hills shop a secret amongst themselves this is couture lingerie Philippe in the 60s that's beautiful a little teeny dress that's beautiful you know is now is that finding all the kind of shoes and everything to go is is my like what I don't get that my feet is nine and it's like something back did you officer I tried to buy shoes for you last week no but they didn't they didn't give enough time more and more right now I love to shop antiques it meets like an investment of it's not just going and buying maybe don't listen I would never go to his show now just buys I like that whole outfit shoes had to turn buy the whole thing naomi has limited time to look for things but because she's a regular at Lilly's Rita has picked out several items in advance beautiful oh that's a trial about okay it's off to the dressing rooms to try on the clothes Oh dad naomi is basically not shy and shield if she's really comfortable around people she'll walk around kind of undressed and a long time ago people saw her come in they would hang out in front of the store waiting to like catch glimpses I joined a statistic aware it's just beautiful simple but beautiful simple and sexy but anywhere no yeah in Paris I'll wear it next in the weekend and what's your intention um well my boyfriend's coming so I'd like this and then we really have to say Naomi takes all of our clothes to Europe makes all the designers totally jealous it copy all of her pose and it's this really great cycle this is really the great thing about Naomi is a shopper is that she doesn't need a label or a name or anything of the sort to know if something is good or if she likes it she just has great instincts about clothes see I don't have particularly one favorite look I just I'm not predictable and what I wear or how I'm gonna pee or how my hair is going to be a change of all the time it fits me perfect and it's because we had it done on Naomi's form the form is a specially designed mannequin based on Naomi's measurements so all the things that you've seen us pinning right now we actually will end up doing on her form and they'll all fit her exactly as this one does looking great is Naomi's business she never falters even when she's off the clock I've got to be comfortable with the way that I look and where I feel so I mean I that's just the way I am as a personality I love to keep changing myself and being venting if I get bored of myself I love fashion so from the right business like I was telling you know I fade away on her like I'm unhappy you

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Length: 21min 19sec (1279 seconds)

Published: Sun Jun 29 2014