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Today’s supermodels owe much to Lauren Hutton. In 1973, she landed what became a landmark contract with Revlon, and her status as the first $1 million-a-year girl had the collateral effect of increasing pay for models across the board, in some ways, giving rise to the more complex business infrastructure that surrounds modeling today.

The inevitable sojourn into acting followed – ‘American Gigolo’ (1980), ‘Lassiter’ (1984) and the made for Tv movie I particularly recall ,‘Someone’s watching me!’ (1978). Deemed too old to sell makeup, she was contractually released by Revlon at the age of 40, yet her subsequent return to modeling five years later was of even greater import, paving the way for the longer, more continually illustrious modelling careers for women well into their fourth and fifth decades.