Claudia Schiffer, Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford and others walk for Versace at Milan Fashion Week

The original supermodels out-shined the new generation

They were known as the original 'supers' in their modelling heyday. But Claudia Schiffer, 47, Naomi Campbell, 47, Helena Christensen, 48, Carla Bruni, 49, and Cindy Crawford, 51, reunited on the catwalk for the Versace SS18 show at Milan Fashion Week, and slayed.

Showing the young guns how it was done, fashion's golden girls brought the show to a stunning climax, after it was opened by 21-year-old Kendall Jenner and model sisters Bella, 20, and Gigi Hadid, 22, reported Daily Mail.

The Nineties supermodels walked designer Donatella Versace down the runway to rapturous applause as they paid tribute to her late designer brother Gianni Versace, who was killed in 1997.



On the 20th anniversary of his death, it was a fitting tribute to a man with whom each of the women worked personally during their modelling days. The women were all dressed in glittering gowns, proving that their supermodel figures were all looking impeccable into their late forties - and early fifties, for some.

It was an extra special moment for mum-of-two Cindy, who shared the runway with her 16-year-old model daughter Kaia Gerber for the first time. Cindy herself quit full-time modelling in 2000 to focus on her Kaia and her 18-year-old male model brother Presley, both of whom Cindy shares with husband Rande Gerber.

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The all-American beauty is said to have featured on around 500 magazine covers and walked for shows including Chanel, Dolce & Gabbana, Christian Dior, DKNY, and previously, Valentino.

Having celebrated her 50th in February 2016, she is the eldest of the golden girls, famously sharing her heyday with the quartet throughout the late Eighties and Nineties.

The model, whose net worth is an estimated $100million according to The Richest, moved on to acting after her success on the runway, as well as venturing into business with her eponymous furniture range.



Claudia has similarly spent 30 years in fashion, having been scouted by a model agent at a nightclub in Düsseldorf. In 1988, she achieved the same feat with French Vogue and the next year, she was the covergirl for the September Issue of American Vogue, which set a precedent for their best-selling issue.

Before the show on Friday, Donatella paid tribute to her brother, saying that the show would not be a sad occasion, but a happy one, because the models were up to their old tricks as they came together again.

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