Memories that Helena Christensen made during the “very intense, hectic and mind-blowing” 90s are still coming back to her now. Alongside Christy Turlington, Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista, Cindy Crawford, Claudia Schiffer and Elle Macpherson, these original supermodels became as famous, if not more so, than the designers whose clothes they modelled.
Beautiful for their originality and personality, in 1996 Frank DeCaro of The New York Times dubbed them The Magnificent Seven, declaring they were known simply by their first names to their many fans.
“People tell me how much joy they have had growing up with the fashion, images and group of girls I was with,” she tells us from her mountain hideaway in the Catskills, upstate New York. “Very tender declarations of how much it meant to them and how much it means to them still.”
Being the most in-demand models in fashion history, the supers would do eight shows a day during the international collections and worked for every big-name brand and prestigious magazine.
Working hard, but driving each other, at the height of her success she couldn’t comprehend the magnitude of their collective force. “It took me a long time to know what it really was and it’s actually still hard to describe.
“Everything fell
