Ep. 3 - Someone's Going To Be A Model... Why Not You? | Supreme Models
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- Опубліковано 14 чер 2024
- The rise of Hip-Hop in the 80’s set the stage for Black Models to rip the runway and turn the fashion industry on its head. The absolute icon that is Karen Alexander shares her incredible triumphs of forging a path that would leave a lasting legacy on the culture and fashion industry. We look at how music became entwined with fashion and how the camaraderie between Black models set the foundation for the Black Girls Coalition with Bethanne Hardison and Iman at the helm.
Supreme Models is a 6-part documentary. New episodes premiere Mondays.
Music Featured:
“Champion”
Written by Randolph Newman and Myles Moraites
Performed by Myles Williams & Titus
Courtesy of MicDrop
“Dream Big (feat. Kris Bradley)”
Written by Jonathan Notar, Albert Scott Risi, Paul James Riggio and Kris Bradley
Performed by Machines A.T.O.
Courtesy of Crucial Music Corporation
“High Elevation”
Written by Lashanda Johnson and John A Costello
Performed by City Lyfe
Courtesy of JC3 Publishing LLC.
“Watch Me”
Written by Peter Higher
Performed by Altitude Music
Courtesy of BMG Production Music
“Mon Roi”
Written by Cecile Pereira and John A Costello
Performed by Cecile Hortensia
Courtesy of JC3 Publishing LLC.
“When It’s Over”
Written by Kevin Qjan and Shuba Vedula
Performed by Shuba
Courtesy of MicDrop
0:00 Intro
0:46 The 1980’s Are Here
2:41 Karen Alexander’s Story
5:27 The Emergence Of Naomi Campbell
9:05 Being In The Minority
12:02 Hair Horror Stories
14:49 Roshumba Williams’ Story
19:17 Bethann To The Rescue - Розваги
It was an honor to work with the #UA-camBlack Voices initiative on this incredible project.
Soooo.... episode 4?
Vogue THANK YOU for this series. As a teen in the mid 1980s and early 1990s I watched Style with Elsa Klensch religiously every Saturday morning/afternoon. I read all the fashion magazines. I even went to an Ebony Fair fashion show. I loved all of the black models and used to follow their careers and all of the fashion shows that featured them prominently. Fashion designers like Patrick Kelly, Azzadine Alaia were good to black models too.
Hello Vogue... It is My Dream of Gracing your Cover Magazine. I'm a Model and a WOC ... I know I have what it takes to appear on your Cover- However, it's a Matter of being given an "Opportunity" to be put on your Cover. I hope one day in the near future it will happen. Not sure if you will see this comment, but it doesn't hurt to put it out into the Ether's 😊
@@TheLadyBlerd aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
I remembered Karen Alexander on various front covers when I was growing up. This woman is a natural beauty.
Yvess Saint Laurent was the Pioneer for black models and we must not forget him
"She was wrong... Hahahahaha. Now I can laugh" 😭 Love it!
Karen Alexander reminds me of Grace Kelly - she is so chiseled and elegant and her features are perfect. Wow. And Iman and Naomi. Inspiration.
I love Karen Alexander! Totally underrated!
I just realized it was her in the original Bad Boys movie back in 1995!
ALWAYS, I never understood why she was so slept on, she was/is the total package
Karen Alexander is an everlasting beauty. One of my favs.
Her voice is so beautiful as well!
She’s absolutely stunning, my first time ever hearing of her here.💜
I think she looks so much sexier now, than in her younger days.
OMG YES!!! I adore Karen Alexander. Forever gorgeous 🥰🥰🥰
Yes love her!
I love being a black girl
Brings me to tears. These iconic models were the faces I could see on covers, on the runway, and in print who made me feel validated and seen. The gorgeousness was exciting. Every cover anticipated. I’m truly missing the voice of Joyce Walker in this.
That is so important that the black models formed a blacked owned coalition to help bring about diversity in the modeling world. That is good!! they all stuck together to help one another.
Absolutely stunning woman Karen Alexander is! Wow
Roshumba is like a little ray of sunshine such a lovely lady.
These women are ICONIC, STUNNING AND BEAUTIFUL. Black women are overall different, but just like artwork..there's a beauty in being different. Every culture, race and color has something unique that makes them beautiful 😍
Love every episode. I’m usually the only Black actor or model on the jobs I work on and whenever I’m around other Black models we hug each other and usually do open to each other about who to work with and who to stay away from. There is so much power in community, sticking together instead of dividing!!
Yassss! I'm glad you like it!
And all I see is Black models in advertisements with natural hair. Love it.
Karen is amazing.
Karen alexandra is beyond stunning. She look like she does ballet or something so delicate and beautiful.
🐻🐸🎉🎉🦩
This has reinforced my waning resolve to continue chasing my modelling dream. Even if I'm from a place where models don't really come from. "Someone's gotta be a model, why can't it be me"
Models come from all over the world, it is just more difficult if you live in a place where it is expensive to fly to any main fashion city. For the models in Europe, they can get a cheap bus or flight to Paris.
Your beautiful.....you were looking for validation from people who weren't worthy of your spirit!!..…glad you showed them who you are inside and out!!💋🌶️👠💃👍🏿🙏🏿🥳
A lot of the top models in modelling history come from lesser known places ( irina shayk - yemanzhelinsk, Russia, cindy crawford- Dekalb, Illinois, adriana lima- bahia, Brazil, Linda Evangelista- st Catherines, Ontario, etc.). It's rare to find top models who actually come from big cities like New York or LA.
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New embroidery designing suit 💖🥰🥰
This is beautiful and inspiring for so many young girls. I was there I remember!
Yessss it’s so inspiring
Hey Chaz.
Omg Karen Alexander is absolutely fabulous
I remember YSL was the first to use Asian and black models. Katoucha Niane and Sonia Cole were the epitome of elegance. China Machado’s editorial photos were memorable too.
Katoucha was so elegant it was like watching a piece of silk come alive to walk the runway.
I've watched every episode of this documentary and it is so well made, so informative and so amazing to watch how that industry changed for the better. THANK YOU for doing it and allowing the rest of us to watch it....
Simply beautiful. Real tears looking at and hearing Bethann, Naomi, Roshumba and Karen's stories. Love seeing everyone else (Veronica, Kara, Kersti, Jeneil, Ebonee, Mikki Taylor, etc) too.
Well done. Thanks to the ladies for sharing their journey. Iman, Karen, Roshumba, Veronica,, Beverly, Gail, Bethann! Was amazing to work/walk with these incredible women! Strength, grace, skill and beauty. Karen Alexander has to be the most inspiring woman I’ve known in my life. Equally welcoming, humble, empathetic, loving, giving, kind, funny, gentle, honest AND so incredibly super photogenic. ❤
Yes! I love these. Protect black women at all costs.
Iman is the most beautiful black Supermodel ever..❤️
Guys I don’t think you understand how big Naomi was…… like next level…. She has 80 vogue covers….enough said
So thankful for this series ✊🏿❤️👸🏽🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
Karen Alexander is a goddess.
Style came on twice in my town. When I first accidently turned it on I could not stop watching Style With Elsa Klensch. I loved that show.
I’m so amazed at the amount of strength these women showed in the face of such strong adversity. It definitely would’ve broken me! These women are icons and role models!
Glad to see these young ladies push & sacrifice so hard to make it; trying for years to break through.....Iman is on a whole other Planet compared to the others.....Naomi Campbell also....I was very surprised that in the beginning, these girls had a limited number of slots.....I figured that beauty is beauty because there are beautiful girls/women everywhere.....
I love this docu series, highlighting the black beauties which we grew up loving.
I'm going to be a model one day
Yes you will !!!
I've been a model & had agencies trying to hunt me down on ista for 2yrs, I was in my late teens and sick, so I never actually signed with a company & the amature friend of mom & I shot a black/white pics (elegant, I styled & put on my own clothes & makeup) & we won an award I didn't even know he applied to...with some money as well!!
However, there's no room for ur bodyshape to change, or age most likely & even big companies traffick some of the girls to eacourts pr even sex trafficked. It can cause so many insecuritieS & you're likely to be expected to do for free in the beginning, which is wrong(that's slavery by definition).
Be careful out there, have a good support system so it's more difficult to be exploited!
Can I ask you how old you are, why you want to be a model & if you have a plan B or modelling being tge side hussle?!
Have a nice day!
I’m 19yrs
Good luck... I did it for a while, its fun, lots of fast cash & free stuff! Dont have any children & save your money! GET A PASSPORT if you don't already have one & eat healthy. Your face & body is YOUR MONEY MAKER TAKE CARE OF IT!!
wow, so eye opening. This entire series is amazing, thank you for creating this.
In the 80s as a little girl these women showed me anything is possible.
Karen Alexander is insanely gorgeous! I still remember seeing her for the first time in Bad Boys; as a little girl I was justy in awe over her pure beauty 😍
Noita Uhura YES!!!! Karen Alexander is a stunning model.
This episode was so moving I cried along with Karen n Roshumba this is award worthy content right here🙏🏽🙏🏽❤❤
Karen is even more stunning today!
Hearing the word black girl made my day bcz I'm a black🖤
Makes me proud to be Black. Full melanin. Makes me stand tall. We are a stunning, strong, articulate, funny, graceful race. And so indebted to Iman cosmetics. Bless u all for all your trail blazing, my fabulous soul sisters; & just kept going, despite all humiliation, for Us.
I am so loving this docuseries! I am glad Vogue made a series specifically black models! Diversity is beautiful! Bravo Vogue Bravo! 👏👍
Every one of these girls are stunningly beautiful🧡
I’m so happy they made this for our Queens
Love Karen Alexander..such a classic beauty.Why wasn’t Peggy Dillard shown or talked about more.She’s had 3 Vogue cover,Mademaiselle,Essence,Ebony etc..She would not let them touch her hair. Thank you Karen for mentioning her. Love Sessilee also. These ladies are still beautiful inside and out.👏🏿⭐️❤️
Wonderful video! Thank you! 💐 💐
She literally doesn't need any makeup. Beautiful
Awesome job Vogue for this series. It’s so encouraging, inspiring and brings a lot of hope.
The amazing work ethic of these models is so high. I was happy to see the models speak on uplifting each other, and fighting the forced upon you mentality of there being only one. It's sad to see hair and makeup still being an issue. To me this is a part of how Black people are expected to work 2x as hard to get 1/2 as far. The idea of someone speaking over you to tell you they know what they are doing only to turn around and rip your hair from the scalp is insane, and also assault. There is a point where incompetence cannot be innocent or unintentional. To these models I can only say thank you for your endurance.
It comes down to an acceptance of White inferiority or lack of professionalism when it's in relation to none White people. A Black hairstylist can do anyones hair, a Black makeup artist is capable of doing anyones makeup. Yet, racism allows untalented/unskilled White artists to become names in the industry. As a problem still showing up in 2022, let's call that elephant what it is racism.
Even the Black agencies said NO! Wow...
This is so inspiring and makes me even more excited (if that were even possible) of becoming a supermodel. Remember the name Francesca Oyeleke folks. I’m stepping in hard
Good luck! Go for it! 💙
This is sooooo amazing 🥺
OMG...Karen Alexander!!!! I saw her years ago, shopping at an Old Navy, in NYC. Its one of my all time favorite stories. I was standing on line with a friend, and I could not believe it was actually her, standing in line, 3 or 4 people behind us!!! When we left the store, I waited outside (my poor friend had no idea why I was so excited. LOL), and as she exited the store, I walked up to her and said "Are you Karen Alexander!!??" She seemed surprised, flashed one of the most beautiful smiles and said "Yes". LOL. She could not have been nicer!! And one of the most beautiful women I've ever seen. You always hear stories of how rude models, singers and actors can be.. but she was the exact opposite!!! She actually said "You must have seen me and said, there's Karen Alexander, on line, looking like hell." To which I answered "You couldn't look bad, even if you made an actual effort to. You were standing on line, looking like a princess, Gorgeous, sophisticated, elegant, and oozing regality! "which by the way, was the truth! I put my hands out and jokingly bowed my head a couple of times. She actually started tearing up, the way she did in this video. We chatted for a while, and realized we actually have a mutual friend. She hugged me, said hello to my friend (who was standing there, still looking confused), thanked me for being so sweet, and walked up 6th Avenue. I've met quite a few "celebrities", but to this day.. She remains the kindest, most humble I have ever encountered.
Oh, I love that stories! Karen is an angel!
@@MarcellasReynolds Truly! She just exuded such warmth.
Wow! Thank you for sharing! What an incredible experience & memory with THE Karen Alexander!!! xox
I like how grateful she is and she lived in those moments. 💙😇🙏
Her Ralph Lauren add that were in o magazine was top notch
Again Karen Alexander ❤️❤️🔥🔥🔥❤️❤️🥰🥰🔥❤️❤️ I have ALWAYS loved this woman's mug!!! Breathtaking to this day. 💐💐💐💐
Hearing THE Ana Wintour call Naomi one of the greatest models of all time just brought me to tears. Not one of the greatest black models but one of the greatest models of all time. 😢😢😢❤❤❤
Wow, I always loved Rashumba and her short hair was fabulous
So glad I stumbled into these stories of these smart beautiful ladies.
Fantastic episode, thank you for this. I'm really interested in seeing how the decades of racism from Prada will be addressed.
Or Celine of whom I will never support .
Karen Alexander is a beautiful!!!, stunning, and talented actress and model. I remember her from Essence magazine covers. Karen Alexander beautiful!! then and now. Karen Alexander is a classy and intelligent woman.
Karen Alexander is still so beautiful.
This series was everything! Black women go through so much, but we rise like a Phoenix! 🦅
Much Gratitude
I am not a black girl, but i have curly hair and i feel as if they wouldnt want me due to my hair. Also because i dont want them to ruin my hair like straightening it and other things that might ruin my curls.
Good to see the Iconic Goddess Beverly Johnson!
This was lovely. Thank you for posting
I love this show so much
I M in tears
I love fashion. From the age of 11 I religiously watched Style with Elsa Clench
Interested in this series, can't wait to see it all!
Digging DEEP into the truth of things. Thank you!
wow Roshumba is stunning!!
This reminds me, the pain I have been going through, and some people they think I don't want to work I'll wake up with pain every single day, confused wondering what my day, is going to be like friends turn their back on me, I was feeling lonely lost, but pushed on with life is the only thing. Thanks lord.
my best friend bought me this book. i enjoyed it so much. so glad this is a series. wow.
Thankyou.
Awesome job
As a teenager in the 80's, I remember when fashion was the center of the universe as stated in this documentary. As a Black teenager living in a predominantly white area of Southern California, I purchased fashion magazines religiously during this time because of the upsurge in Black model representation. I needed that representation. This documentary so highlights their hard work and the mystique these supermodels had. That mystique made them seem larger than life. They were magic. The current crop of models don't seem to carry that same charisma. Brava to all of these ladies who paved the way for continued diversity in the industry!
Roshumba!!!! She is HER!!!
These young courageous young lady, give me hope, for the next generation. "All Power to you ladies.👌💕
Amazing video ❤️
The golden era will always be the late 80s and early 90s where many black women were booking many runway shows and editorials. They were very visible. Models like Naomi, Beverly Peele, Veronica Webb, Katoucha, Sonia Cole, Stephanie Roberts, Roshumba, Karen Alexanda, Alek Wek, Tyra, Debra Shaw were either in magazines and or runways of Milan, Paris and New York. However after 1997 it all changed and it become progressively less diverse. Less visible. It never got back to how it was at those times and those high wages.
Loved this ❤ 💖
Karen Alexander is my cousin and I didn’t find this out until I started doing my family tree. She kin to me on my mother’s side.
That's really awesome 😊
Karen’s photos with Herb Ritts are so beautiful
PLEASE!!!!!! ALL of these women are GORGEOUS!!!!! I remember them all in their prime. They never had a PIMPLE, BAD SKIN, or MISSING TEETH. THEY WERE ALL SIMPLY FLAWLESS!!!!
Why not? Yes
I am so glad Bethan took on these girls
They are all absolutely beautiful 🙏🏻 great documentary, please more like this 🙏🏻
This is just Wonderful...They way it should be❤❤❤❤
Black models are more stunning. I believe it all boils down to Jealousy and racism
Loving this series! Learning so much.
great series so far
WOW..SIMPLY WOW.
Tysm for this series!
Karen Alexander! Still a beauty
I hope the woman who got her hair ripped from her cornrowed braids sued for real cause what the hell?
This is sooo good!
Brilliant!!!
Loooved this video. Thank you 🙏
so moving and inspiring, everything about this episode is beautiful
Actually the short Afro on prime time television started with Queen Cicely Tyson.
And beautiful Black women have been having the short Afro featured in art from a millennia ago... seems more that she's reflecting on her impact upon how Black women were seen in fashion industry period - and not by proxy of more prominent talents (e.g. in the 70s, Diana Ross dominated fashion because she was a more prominent singer in the 60s... as for Cicely, she was revered as an actress long before she was remembered as beautiful RIP) - being strictly a professional fashion model in the context of this video #js
Actually, we're talking about fashion and models, not actresses.
The black models know how to move, they can kill that runway