NAOMI CAMPBELL

Each time her mother twisted and turned, dancing at a family party in the front room of their small home in Streatham, South London, 10-year-old Naomi Campbell gave a silent and serious nod, an acknowledgment that she was watching.

When her mother finished the routine, it was her turn. She inhaled deeply and waited for the beat of the music, just like she’d been taught, before mirroring her mother’s dance moves perfectly. They continued again and again, each time igniting a passionate applause from those watching.

Even then Campbell could command a room, a skill she undoubtedly inherited from her professional dancer mother. She learnt early that her cult-like beauty was a great way to get noticed but “swagger”, as she would later call it, was how you were remembered.

And her accelerated ascent from teen model to one of the most successful supermodels in the