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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Jess Cartner-Morley

The Super Models – documentary brings to life the fab four of gen X fashion

Linda Evangelista, Christy Turlington, Naomi Campbell and Cindy Crawford in The Super Models.
Linda Evangelista, Christy Turlington, Naomi Campbell and Cindy Crawford in The Super Models. Photograph: Misan Harriman

Cindy, Christy, Naomi, Linda. For a generation of women who were teenage girls in the late 1980s and early 90s, these were our Beatles.

And so the Apple TV+ documentary The Super Models is, to a large slice of generation X, what Peter Jackson’s Get Back was to Boomers. A strangely addictive encounter with four characters who have wallpapered our lives, seen in the one way in which we have never seen them before – as regular human beings.

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