Supermodel Savvy

Naomi Campbell’s four-decade (and counting) career is on high-fashion display at Victoria & Albert Museum in London

By Katie Bianco

There was a period in the ’90s–before movie and television stars started gracing the covers of fashion magazines—when Naomi Campbell and her supermodel sisters were it. Gen Xers remember the catwalks, the Vogue covers, that George Michael video. 

For those with London on their travel list in the coming months, nostalgia remains supreme with Victoria and Albert Museum’s latest visiting exhibition: Naomi: In Fashion (through April 6, 2025). The exhibit explores Naomi Campbell’s boundary-breaking, unparalleled career in fashion that began at 15 years old when she was scouted in Covent Garden to her current, and longtime, work as advocate for social justice. 

Shortly after being discovered in London, Campbell became the first Black woman to appear on the cover of American Vogue in 1988 and would go on to become a household name and an iconic symbol of the global fashion industry. In another first, Naomi: In Fashion is the first exhibition to celebrate the skill and contribution of an individual model to the fashion industry.

Chalk full of Campbell’s runway looks (including plenty from her longtime collaborator Azzedine Alaïa), famous editorial photographs by world-renowned fashion photographers, including Steven Meisel, Arthur Elgort, Patrick Demarchelier and David Bailey. The exhibition takes a deep dive into how Campbell impacted the fashion industry and beyond—and doing it in, of course, designer heels.

Here, a look at some of Campbell’s most famous looks on display at Naomi: In Fashion.

Naomi in Fashion exhibition, 18th June 2024
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