Achi news desk-
Elle Macpherson thinks fashion models are “very different” these days.
The 59-year-old star was one of the biggest names to emerge in the modeling industry in the 1990s alongside the likes of Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell, Christy Turlington, Claudia Schiffer and Linda Evangelista and explained that women on the stage these days. has been “more relatable” than ever before.
She told Harper’s Bazaar: “You had the girls who were runway models [or] who were cover girls. . . beauty girls. . . fashion girls. And suddenly. . . the same girl was booked on a very different job. “It was very different to the way it is today. Back in the ’80s and ’90s, the more you were on a pedestal, iconic, mysterious, unattainable, untouchable, larger than life … the more successful you were . And today I think the more approachable, the more changeable, the more connected you are to your community, the more successful you are.”
The businesswoman also remembered that she wanted to look like everyone else during her prime but was able to build her career on the basis that she was “very different” to others in her field.
She said: “I’ve always wanted to wear those types of bras but I’m six foot [182.5cm], Amazonian, athletic Australian with a 36C bust and I couldn’t find anything that fit me. You have to remember that the average model size was probably a five nine and most of them were probably a 32-34B bust. I built a career because I was very different. I leaned into that. But it was difficult in the beginning because I wanted to look like everyone else. Like a schoolgirl, right? I wanted to be like all the other girls, and I wasn’t doing that.”
