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Back to the 90s! The TV show giving a front row seat to fashion’s hard-partying superstars
The supermodels ruled. A Vogue cover was a coronation. And the party rolled from the catwalk to the Groucho. Ahead of In Vogue: The 90s, Jess Cartner-Morley remembers the grunge and glamour of her favourite decade
Peter Lindbergh’s black-and-white portrait of Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista, Christy Turlington and Tatjana Patitz announced the dawn of the supermodel age, and was the starting pistol for a decade when fashion was the engine room of popular culture. From Kardashian herself, to Gwyneth Paltrow and Victoria Beckham, many of the most successful women of subsequent generations have borrowed from her playbook in which a feminine wardrobe is offset by a coolly aloof emotional tone which feels more patrician than maternal. Wintour makes no bones about the fact that she detested grunge, but as Marc Jacobs says, “no force on earth” – for which read, not even Anna – “can stop an idea whose time has come.” Yet just two years later we see Amber Valletta opening Tom Ford’s Gucci show in a mostly unbuttoned silk blouse and velvet hipsters, a moment she recalls as a “sonic wave” of sexual energy.
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