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‘The Super Models’ review: Queens of the catwalk and magazine covers

Christy Turlington in "The Super Models," now streaming on Apple TV+.

Even if you didn’t follow fashion, Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, Linda Evangelista and Christy Turlington were pop culture fixtures and household names throughout the 1990s. No other group of runway and print models since has captured the public’s imagination in quite the same way. Through new interviews and archival footage, the four-part docuseries “The Super Models” on Apple TV+ looks back at their careers.

Evangelista’s participation in the series is notable. For years, she remained out of the spotlight after a fat-freezing procedure went wrong, in addition to a breast cancer diagnosis. But here she is. I didn’t anticipate how lovely it would be to see her again.

But “The Super Models” is not especially probing, which tends to be the case whenever celebrity subjects are also executive producers. They are interviewed separately and

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