What Becomes of A Legend Most?

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Carmen Dell'Orefice


Career highlight: Cover of Vogue at 15.
Now: A victim of Bernie Madoff, Dell’Orefice is still modeling at 80.

Jean Shrimpton


Career highlight: Swinging London.
Now: Hotel owner in Cornwall.

Twiggy


Career highlight: Changed the silhouette.
Now: Released pop standards album Romantically Yours last fall.

Veruschka


Career highlight: Blow Up.
Now: Recently re-signed with Elite.

Marisa Berenson


Career highlight: “The Girl of the Seventies,” per Yves Saint Laurent.
Now: Playing world’s most glamorous grandmother in I Am Love.

Lauren Hutton


Career highlight: A $1 million contract with Revlon as the follow-up to her teenage career as a Playboy bunny.
Now: Muse to the Olsen twins.

Iman


Career highlight: Muse to most of the twentieth century’s greats.
Now: When accepting CFDA Fashion Icon award, said she’d be telling her husband, David Bowie, “Move over. You’re not the only icon in the house.”

Paulina Porizkova


Career highlight: $6 million Estée Lauder contract in 1988.
Now: Married to Ric Ocasek, Porizkova recently started speaking out about some of the horrors she experienced as a model, including molestation.

Christie Brinkley


Career highlight: Eighties dream girl, as memorialized by ex Billy Joel.
Now: Sag Harbor property mogul, TotalGym partner.

Kathy Ireland


Career highlight: Sports Illustrated’s swimsuit issues.
Now: Selling billions worth of ceiling fans, vinyl replacement windows, mattresses, and flooring.

Cindy Crawford


Career highlight: All of the nineties.
Now: Cindy Crawford Home Collection.

Stephanie Seymour


Career highlight: “November Rain.”
Now: Married, almost-unmarried, and now married again to multimillionaire Peter Brant.

Linda Evangelista


Career highlight: “We don’t wake up for less than $10,000 a day.”
Now: Still working.

Christy Turlington


Career highlight: Eternity by Calvin Klein.
Now: Tribeca’s Ur–yoga mom.

Kate Moss


Career highlight: Heroin chic; revival following coke scandal in 2005; designing for Topshop.
Now: Was the only person to wear a new creation by John Galliano (her wedding dress) since February 2011.

Gisele Bündchen


Career highlight: Currently the world’s highest-paid model, according to Forbes; made $45 million last year.
Now: Cursing out her husband’s teammates.

Tyra Banks


Career highlight: First black woman to be featured on the covers of GQ, Victoria’s Secret catalogue, and Sports Illustrated’s swimsuit issue.
Now: In her second year at Harvard Business School.

Heidi Klum


Career highlight: “In fashion, you’re either in or you’re out.”
Now: Branding juggernaut, tabloid fixture thanks to her divorce from Seal.

Naomi Campbell


Career highlight: Appears on the cover of American, British, and French Vogues. Is named “honorary granddaughter” by Nelson Mandela.
Now: Anger-management-course graduate; girlfriend of oligarch.

Claudia Schiffer


Career highlight: Is Lagerfeld’s choice as the face of Chanel.
Now: Knitwear designer.

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