Chanel in the ’90s: The Best Supermodel Runway Moments, Including Kate Moss, Cindy Crawford, And More
Long before there was Kendall, Gigi, or Kaia, there was Kate, Naomi, Cindy, and plenty of other genetically-blessed fresh faces storming the runways of Paris Fashion Week. And one place you were all but guaranteed to see them altogether? The Chanel show, of course. It was there that Karl Lagerfeld collected his favorite girls, including Moss, Campbell, and Crawford, as well as fellow Supers Linda Evangelista, Amber Valetta, and Claudia Schiffer, among others. While the show’s weren’t quite the extravaganzas they’ve come to be associated today (read: no life-size spaceships constructed within the Grand Palais), there was still plenty of fashion to be seen, including pearl-adorned bikinis, sheer crop tops, and lots and lots of tweed. Here, take a supermodel-filled stroll down memory lane at some of the best runway moments of Chanel in the ’90s.
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Models walk the runway during the Chanel Ready to Wear show as part of Paris Fashion Week Spring/Summer 1990-1991 in October, 1990 in Paris, France.
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A model walks the runway during the Chanel Ready to Wear show as part of Paris Fashion Week Fall/Winter 1990-1991 in March, 1990 in Paris, France.
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Naomi Campbell walks the runway during the Chanel Ready to Wear show as part of Paris Fashion Week Spring/Summer 1990-1991 in October, 1990 in Paris, France.
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Gisele Zelauy walks the runway at the Chanel Ready to Wear Fall/Winter 1990-1991 fashion show during the Paris Fashion Week in March, 1990 in Paris, France.
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Cristina Cordula walks the runway during the Chanel Ready to Wear show as part of Paris Fashion Week Spring/Summer 1990-1991 in October, 1990 in Paris, France.
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A model walks the runway during the Chanel Ready to Wear show as part of Paris Fashion Week Spring/Summer 1990-1991 in October, 1990 in Paris, France.
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Linda Evangelista walks the runway during the Chanel Ready to Wear show as part of Paris Fashion Week Fall/Winter 1991-1992 in March, 1991 in Paris, France.
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A model walks the runway during the Chanel Ready to Wear show as part of Paris Fashion Week Fall/Winter 1991-1992 in March, 1991 in Paris, France.
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Model Linda Evangelista walks the runway at the Chanel Ready to Wear fashion show during the Spring/Summer Fashion Week on October, 1990 in Paris, France.
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Linda Evangelista walks the runway during the Chanel Ready to Wear show as part of Paris Fashion Week Fall/Winter 1991-1992 in March, 1991 in Paris, France.
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Helena Christensen walks the runway during the Chanel Ready to Wear show as part of Paris Fashion Week Fall/Winter 1991-1992 in March, 1991 in Paris, France.
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Model Veronica Webb attends the Bergdorf Goodman and Chanel “Off the Street” Runway Show and Gala to Benefit the Citizen’s Committee for Children of New York Adolescent Alternatives on September 12, 1991 at Industria Superstudio in New York City, New York.
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A model walks the runway during the Chanel Ready to Wear show as part of Paris Fashion Week Spring/Summer 1991-1992 in October, 1991 in Paris, France.
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Model on the catwalk for Chanel during the 1992 Ready-to-Wear Fall-Winter fashion show.
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A model walks the runway during the Chanel Ready to Wear show as part of Paris Fashion Week Fall/Winter 1992-1993 in March, 1992 in Paris, France.
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Yasmin Le Bon walks the runway during the Chanel Ready to Wear show as part of Paris Fashion Week Fall/Winter 1992-1993 in March, 1992 in Paris, France.
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A model walks the runway during the Chanel Ready to Wear show as part of Paris Fashion Week Fall/Winter 1992-1993 in March, 1992 in Paris, France.
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Linda Evangelista walks the runway at the Chanel Ready to Wear Spring/Summer 1991-1992 fashion show during the Paris Fashion Week in October, 1991 in Paris, France
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A model walks the runway during the Chanel Ready to Wear show as part of Paris Fashion Week Spring/Summer 1992-1993 in October, 1992 in Paris, France.
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A model walks the runway during the Chanel Ready to Wear show as part of Paris Fashion Week Spring/Summer 1992-1993 in October, 1992 in Paris, France.
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Claudia Schiffer walks the runway during the Chanel Ready to Wear show as part of Paris Fashion Week Spring/Summer 1992-1993 in October, 1992 in Paris, France.
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Naomi Campbell walks the runway during the Chanel Ready to Wear show as part of Paris Fashion Week Spring/Summer 1992-1993 in October, 1992 in Paris, France.
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Linda Evangelista walks the runway during the Chanel Ready to Wear show as part of Paris Fashion Week Spring/Summer 1992-1993 in October, 1992 in Paris, France.
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Linda Evangelista walks the runway during the Chanel Ready to Wear show as part of Paris Fashion Week Spring/Summer 1992-1993 in October, 1992 in Paris, France.
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A model walks the runway during the Chanel Ready to Wear show as part of Paris Fashion Week Spring/Summer 1992-1993 in October, 1992 in Paris, France.
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Claudia Schiffer walks the runway during the Chanel Ready to Wear show as part of Paris Fashion Week Fall/Winter 1993-1994 in March, 1993 in Paris, France.
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Amber Valletta walks the runway during the Chanel Ready to Wear show as part of Paris Fashion Week Fall/Winter 1993-1994 in March, 1993 in Paris, France.
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Kate Moss walks the runway at the Chanel Ready to Wear Spring/Summer 1993-1994 fashion show during the Paris Fashion Week in October, 1993 in Paris, France.
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Cindy Crawford walks the runway at the Chanel Ready to Wear Spring/Summer 1993-1994 fashion show during the Paris Fashion Week in October, 1993 in Paris, France.
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Cindy Crawford walks the runway at the Chanel Ready to Wear Spring/Summer 1993-1994 fashion show during the Paris Fashion Week in October, 1993 in Paris, France.
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Naomi Campbell walks the runway at the Chanel Ready to Wear Spring/Summer 1993-1994 fashion show during the Paris Fashion Week in October, 1993 in Paris, France.
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A model walks Chanel’s ready-to-wear Spring/Summer 1994 Runway collection.
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Naomi Campbell on the runway for the Chanel Spring/Summer 1995 fashion show in Paris, France.
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Amber Valetta walks in the Chanel Fall/Winter 1995 Chanel show in Paris, France.
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Kate Moss walks in Chanel’s presentation of its Fall/Winter 1995 collection in Paris, France.
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Cindy Crawford walks in Chanel’s presentation of its Fall/Winter 1995 collection in Paris, France.
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Logo string bikini in runway show for Chanel’s Spring 1994 RTW collection, designed by Karl Lagerfeld.
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Kate Moss walks during the presentation of Chanel’s spring/summer 1997 collection, presented in Paris.
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A fashion model wears ready-to-wear women’s fashions during a 1997 spring-summer fashion show for French fashion house Chanel.
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Alek Wek walks in the spring/summer 1998 Chanel collection, presented in Paris, France.
