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Instead of models, hot actresses now adorn the lockers of teenage girls. Salma Hayek and Halle Berry do Revlon ads. Also modeling are Jennifer Lopez (L'Oreal), Kyra Sedgwick (Saks Fifth Avenue), Brandy (Cover Girl) and Gillian Anderson (Emanuel). Athletes, politicians, businesswomen and writers are getting ads: Katie Roiphe and Serena Altschul do Coach, while Anne Klein has a whole "real people" campaign featuring the likes of Ann Richards, Faye Wattleton and Kim Polese. The cover girl for September's Vogue, the biggest issue of the year, was Renee Zellweger, and last month it was a superglamorous Oprah Winfrey. Even the last fashion-magazine holdout against celebrity covers, Glamour, this month features Halle Berry.
Perhaps the greatest symbol of the end of the supermodel is the Fashion Cafe, the glitzy restaurant chain started to much fanfare in 1995 by celebrity part-owners Schiffer, Macpherson and Campbell--and now teetering on the edge of bankruptcy. Turlington, who later joined the venture, left the cafe last year, and the menu at the Rockefeller Center location can't even spell the name of one of its co-owners correctly, offering "Noami's Fish & Chips."
Campbell says she has little to do with the chain anymore. Still, she was shocked to learn of the typo: "My image is involved! That's terrible!" Supermodels--don't you miss them?