However, the playful short hair paired with Linda's soaring eyebrows and majestic jawline made her look even more recognizable. Single-handedly, she created a whirlwind of "The Linda" hairstyles at the time.
In Linda's peak period, "Lafayette" Karl Lagerfeld and Gianni Versace are favored by her, in the following years, Linda is Chanel, Versace two brands as the most perfect incarnation of contemporary female image.
Karl Lagerfeld even shot Linda himself. "No other model in the world is as professional as she is," Lafayette said in a statement.
In her career, Linda has appeared on more than 700 covers, making her a legend in the industry.
Linda, on the other hand, saved her last amazing performance on the runway for Dior.
In 2007, Dior contracted the entire Palace of Versailles with a gorgeous couture show to celebrate the brand's 60th anniversary. Linda joined Naomi Campbell on stage in a dark red dress.In order to pay tribute to The classic "The Linda" hair, "Pirate Master" john Galliano specially customized an orange short hair wig for her.
In 2018, to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the death of brand founder Gianni Versace, Versace launched a new and old supermodel battle on the 2018 spring/summer show.
In this big show, Linda, who was once all-powerful Versace, was absent.
On the one hand, the public strongly praised the former supermodels on the Versace show for their beauty, on the other hand, some media have turned over Linda's no-makeup photos.
That's a series of street photos of Linda being captured by a reporter at the airport in 2017. The picture shows her slightly bloated, with her once-recognizable jawline all but gone, but still smiling politely at reporters.
At that time, the media, who did not understand the truth of Linda's medical beauty failure, mocked the former supermodel with such acerbic words as "overweight to the point of almost unrecognizable" and "beauty in her twilight". Little did she know what kind of pain she was experiencing at that time.
Over the past few years, the over-embellished advertising campaigns of makeup and skincare brands have deeply rooted appearance anxiety in the hearts of beauty lovers. The marketing of medical beauty makes us feel as if we are still one shot short. The excessive promotion of a large number of media for "girlish sense" and "juvenile sense" makes people unable to calmly face aging.
When the young power and the rush of time can no longer balance, the harsh evaluation from the outside world and increasing appearance anxiety finally forced the former supermodel into the desperate situation of disfigurement. Although medical beauty can fill the gap in the body, it can not fill the increasingly distorted psychological hole.
Perhaps what Linda needs to overcome is her excessively demanding mentality of perfection. To please the so-called "perfect" in the eyes of others is not as good as pursuing the comfort you want.
In the film, Linda only wears a wet white shirt, boldly shows her true temperament in front of the camera, both calm and confident, but also shed tears of sadness. Under the sun, every "imperfection" of Linda is so beautiful.
Peter Lindbergh tries to encourage women to take off their pretenses, bravely release their true selves, and confidently face every side of themselves through his unique creative ideas.
Today, however, we still seem unable to embrace this frankness.
Thankfully, though, today's fashion industry is moving in a better direction.
At present, more and more skin care products are gradually removing the word "perfect" in the product's promotional rhetoric and using "comfortable" instead.
Not long ago, Rihanna released the third big show of her Savage X Fenty through Amazon live online platform, confident, sexy, not catering, not pleasing brand strategy, so that she can bring more wonderful underwear show to the audience in the post-Victoria's Secret era. The spirit of diversity also gives her personal makeup, underwear brand greater value.
"Appearance anxiety" is real and pervasive. What is its practical and psychological significance? What kind of emotional exit is hidden behind it?
"The love of beauty is common to all people, and all people yearn for beauty, which is not wrong in itself, and blindly thinking that appearance is not important is to hide one's ears and steal the bell." It's not an exaggeration to say that a confident appearance gives people more opportunities. It's a fact that exists in real life, but appearances are just a stepping stone. Good looks alone won't last."