This being London Fashion Week, it’s time for normal women to look wistfully at the catwalk and see not just the clothes but the fabulousness of the women wearing them. Or maybe that’s just me. But if we feel woefully inadequate compared with the models of now, it’s nothing compared to the Nineties, when the first supermodels, created by Gianni Versace, flourished: goddesses whose approach to life was summed up by Linda Evangelista’s cheerful boast that they didn’t get out of bed for less than $10,000.
And it’s Evangelista now who turned the whole supermodel phenomenon into a morality tale when, five years ago, she had a cosmetic procedure, CoolSculpting, which went wrong. It was meant to freeze her fat cells, instead it had the opposite effect. She went into hiding in shame, and stayed there.
