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Linda Evangelista's beauty comeback
Fashion's favourite chameleon is enjoying her comeback, but motherhood is what defines her now.
By Nathalie Dolivo
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Linda Evangelista quietly enters the photo studio at New York's famous Pier 59. Dressed simply, with her hair casually pulled back, she doesn't immediately look like the mythical creature that ruled the modelling world during the late '80s and '90s. As she makes her way over to the makeup chair, the sounds of Arcade Fire playing in the background suddenly catch her attention. "Oh, they're Canadian like me," she says. "I love them!" Evangelista settles into the chair, and makeup artist James Kaliardos and hairstylist Serge Normant begin to transform her from supermom -- she has brought along her baby boy, Augustin -- to supermodel.
Her comeback
It's been almost 20 years since Evangelista, Naomi Campbell and Christy Turlington were billed as "The Trinity" of top models, yet even today, this 42-year-old continues to land lucrative endorsements -- including her recent appointment as the new international spokesperson for L'Oréal Paris.
Mention Evangelista and fashion insiders still gush. "Linda is a kind of Stradivarius," Karl Lagerfeld told Vogue. "You can play her like you can play no other instrument." "She's extraordinarily beautiful and extraordinarily photogenic, and...she…she… sparkles in front of the camera," added photographer Steven Meisel.
At today's shoot, Normant -- like Meisel -- struggles to find words to de scribe Evangelista's measured smiles and catlike movements on-set. "She's just… wow!" he says. "She is conscious of everything," adds Kaliardos. "She grasps everything." While other women -- whether it's Gisele Bündchen, Kate Moss or Natalia Vodianova -- have become equally famous and powerful, Evangelista remains the iconic fashion model. Even as a young girl, she knew this was her destiny. When she was a teenager, she insisted that her mother enroll her in modelling school. At 16, she entered the Miss Teen Niagara pageant but lost. Although a talent scout from Elite Model Management noticed her at the pageant, her strict parents forbade her from getting in touch with the agent until she graduated from school. "Looking back, I think it was a wise decision," she explains. "The whole debate around anorexic models is based on the fact that girls are often quite young when they start."
Image courtesy of Paola Kudacki
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