Much of the conversation surrounding New York Fashion Week has rightfully criticized the fashion industry’s continued refusal to hire non-white models, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a long history of black supermodels rising (if briefly) to the top of the fashion world.
Teenage is making its Australian premiere this week with three screenings at the Melbourne International Film Festival.
Carmen Dell’Orefice, model and actress, was discovered at the age of 13 on a bus going to ballet class.
Above, sixteen year old Jerry Hall on a road trip in the early 70s.
Shock of red–a very young Nicole Kidman in 1983–poses for a fashion spread in Dolly, the Australian teen-centric fashion mag.
