Nothing Beats ’90s Supermodel Beauty. How to Update 5 Iconic Looks for 2024.

BACK IN THE 1990s, when fashion magazines were the size of phone books, the covers routinely featured four impossibly beautiful women who grew so famous, people around the world referred to them by their first names: Cindy, Naomi, Christy and Linda. With their larger-than-life fame (and big hair to match) this pioneering foursome transformed the concept of a supermodel. They were in control, in demand—and in everything. Thirty-plus years after Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell, Christy Turlington and Linda Evangelista disrupted the modeling landscape, the icons can still command runways, photo shoots and our fascination. Case in point: Apple TV+’s much-discussed September docuseries “The Super Models.”

“We all wanted to look like the supermodels,” said London makeup artist Val Garland, who has worked with the women for decades. But what, exactly, defines their “look”?