Supe’s On
Canada’s CBC News reported yesterday on the Supermodels documentary now streaming on Apple TV+. “The series has a lot to say, but it’s just as interesting for what it doesn’t say,” writes Jenna Benchetrit of the show starring and co-produced by its subjects Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista, Cindy Crawford (shown with me circa 1994 in […]
Flight of the WASP is “delightfully provocative.” –BookPage
In a starred review in BookPage, the book recommendation magazine, calls Flight the WASP “absorbing…The book’s real delight lies in its brisk biographies of the people who illustrate the ascent and descent of WASP hegemony…Gross’ choices of biographical subjects are unexpected, even idiosyncratic….Well-researched and well-written.”
Flight of the WASP is a “Must Read”
The Next Big Idea Club, a subscription book club, has named Flight of the WASP a must read book for November. If you’re not a member, you can still pre-order a copy now.
Meisel: The Man Avedon called Xerox
Back in 1992, Madonna and photographer Steven Meisel created a photo book called Sex with lots of nekkid pictures of the entertainer and metal covers that so scratched my book shelves, I sold it. I probably should have held on to it as today, Meisel is having a moment, what with a book of his […]
The WASP Heir Behind Hair
Fifty-six years ago, the off-Broadway musical Hair was about to premiere as the first-ever production at impresario Joseph Papp’s Public Theater on Lafayette Street in downtown New York City. It was Indian summer 1967, when an heir to a great American paper products fortune, Michael Butler, saw an ad for the show featuring three native […]
J’accuse? St. Barth reacts to “Clouds on the Horizon”
Late last month, Le Journal de St. Barth, the weekly newspaper on the fabled island, reacted strongly (see bottom item) to my report on the island in the latest issue of Palmer: The Palm Beach Reader. For those of you who don’t read French, here’s an annotated machine translation of their comment on the story: […]
R.I.P. Barbara Mullen
Barbara Mullen, whose modeling career soared in the 1950s and then crashed after an indiscretion that made her a key character in my industry expose, Model, has died at age 96. The New York Times obituary by Alex Williams properly highlights her career accomplishments. But “Ms. Mullen did not achieve name-brand recognition outside industry circles,” […]
Post Toasts Supermodels
It’s a supermodel moment…again, and tomorrow’s New York Post gives hat tips both to my 1995 book Model and Model Model, the 1992 profile of Christy Turlington (shown with me a few years back at a Staley-Wise Gallery opening) that caused Veronica Webb to admonish me, Linda Evangelista to call me out as evil, and […]
Flight of the WASP Gets a Rave First Review: “Immersive, nuanced, expert, enlightening”
Publishers Weekly has just released the first review of Flight of the WASP, and it’s a doozy: “an immersive and nuanced group portrait…of 15 prominent white, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant families…succinct assessments of well-known names like Morgan, Biddle, Peabody, and Whitney…Striking an expert balance between the big picture and intimate thumbnails, this is an enlightening study of […]
Supermodels and Me
The Supermodels, a four-part AppleTV+ series about Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, Linda Evangelista and Christy Turlington debuts next month with the foursome among eleven executive producers. Which reminded me of a kerfuffle over my 1992 New York magazine profile of Turlington, “Model Model,” which I’m posting here. The story caused a dramatic breach—apparently since healed–in the […]