, whose role in her industry, starting in the late ’60s and continuing into the present, has been remarkable personally and game-changing culturally.
The footage of Iman, Naomi Campbell, Veronica Webb, Roshumba Williams, Tyra Banks and Hardison flanking New York City Commissioner of Cultural Affairs Mark Green as they held a press conference taking on the lack or representation in fashion ads in 1992 provides just one of the film’s indelible moments. It’s made more so by rendering it in rich black-and-white.
Recordings of some of the filmmakers’ phone exchanges are included. The best and wittiest might be the snippet that comes about five minutes into the film when Hardison asks, “How do you see the film starting?” It already has. Liebowitz makes her brief appearance in a film rife with engaging interviewees and players. Iman and Naomi Campbell stand out, as does fashion casting director James Scully. Photographer Bruce Weber talks about the first time he saw Tyson Beckford, in what is a charming origin story, in part because Weber doesn’t use it to self-aggrandize. The first Black male supermodel, Beckford became the face of Ralph Lauren’s Polo.