TheOrator.Press Events Page. ‘Events Dear Boy. Events’: Unique, Unprecedented, Ultra Glamourous Supermodel Exhibition At The Victoria & Albert Museum. ‘Naomi Campbell: In Fashion’. July2024

Naomi Campbell Is The First of All The Supermodels of The 1990s To Have Her Own Large Scale Exhibition In London.

There Has Never Been Another Supermodel Team Like That of Naomi And Her Friends Since Then. And She Is The One That Continues To Work And Walk The Runway Most Regularly. Her Beauty Remains Undiminished To This Day.

Now Aged 54 She Is Still As Beautiful, Charismatic And Capable As Ever. Nonetheless She Acknowledges The Passage of Time Rather Than Trying To Fight It And Her Focus Is Clearly On Helping The Next Generation.

Talking of Which, The Exhibition Includes A Picture of Her With The Eldest of Her Two Recent Babies Which She Had In Her Fifties, The First of Which She Had Just Two Years Ago, And The Second of Which Is Just A Matter of Months Old. She Recently Revealed That She Had Both of Her Children Through Surrogacy. She Is A Groundbreaker In So Many Ways. Coincidentally Janet Jackson Had Her Son When She Was 50 (Eight Years Ago).

Campbell Was The First Black Model To Grace The Cover of French Vogue, The Story of Which Features In The Exhibition, As Does The Story of Her Involvement In The Groundbreaking And Beautiful 2008 ‘Black Vogue’ Italian Vogue Campaign, Which Sought To Achieve More Black Models Being Booked For Jobs In The Fashion Industry And Showcased Their Style And Beauty Especially. At The Other Extreme Anna Sui Pre Spice Girl Baby Spice Look Caused Controversy Due To It’s School Girl Comparisons But Anna Sui Says She Was Inspired By The Rock Chic Look At The Time. For Instance See @AnnaSui Years Later And Anna Sui Herself

Her Fight Against Racism And Discrimination In The Fashion Industry And Society Generally Is Heartfelt As Is Her Charity Work Such Fashion For Relief.Org She Is Also Especially Interested In The Development of The Fashion Industry In Africa.

Pervasive Throughout The Exhibition In The Fact That Naomi Generously Let’s Us Share A Number of Her Special Relationships Built Up Over The Years And How She Did It. She Provides Us With An Explanation And An Education. Given That Her Charisma, Class And Compelling Beauty Have Prevailed Over 40 Decades It’s A Fashion Parade Over Several Different Historical Ages Such That A Model’s Career Is Unlikely To Pan Out The Same Way Today. But What Shines Out Is How She’s Conducted Herself In Order To Become A Satorial Survivor Unlike Any Other.

Her Work Ethic, Her Family Support, Especially From Her Strong Mother Who Came From The World of Entertainment And Could Guide Her Daughter. Also Her Maternal Aunt, Valerie’s Sister. Her Loyalty. Her Individuality. Her Friendships With Fellow Supermodels, Such As Fellow South Londoner Kate Moss (From Croydon), Cindy Crawford, Christie Turlington, And Linda Evangelista (Who Famously Declared At The Height of Her Powers That She’s “Not Getting Out of Bed For Less Than £15,000”). Her Respect For Her Elders, Non More So Than Nelson Mandela, The First Black Prime Minister of South Africa, Whom She Met On Her Travels And Who Is Her Great Inspiration For Her Keeness To Develop Vogue Africa And The African Fashion Industry.

Azzedine Alaia And The Bandage Dress

Above 1990: Azzedine Alaia & Naomi Campbell With His Famous Bandage Dress. Seeing This Dress In The Exhibition Automatically Reminded Us of The Liz Hurley Versace Dress Which Came Four Years Later.

Firstly The ‘Bandage Dress’ (Naomi & Alaia) And Then ‘The Safety Pin Dress. (Versace & Elizabeth).’

Above 1994: Liz Hurley In The Versace Pin Dress She Wore To The Premiere of Four Weddings And A Funeral With Her Then Boyfriend Hugh Grant. It Brought Her To The World’s Attention And Helped Seal Her Celebrity Status.

But As We Can See Clearly From This Exhibition, Naomi Did It First.

Interesting!