CINDY CRAWFORD was cast by photographer Steve Landis for her first magazine cover back in late July 1984 in Paris. . . . Steve met Cindy Crawford at a small birthday party for another ELITE model, Stephanie Seymour at the Paris restaurant CHEZ FERNAND. Steve recalls that ”It was an incredible evening if you really think about it, here at the same table together, and all just beginning their careers were three girls who would become the very definition of the word supermodel.“ (The third and perhaps greatest model of the three was Linda Evangelista, whom Steve Landis had already cast and booked for a hosiery advertising promotion with British VOGUE.

See Cindy Crawford’s first cover and the “afiche”  (poster) that hung in the streets all over Paris to promote the issue.  20Ans is a hip magazine for teenage girls in France.  Over the years many girls who went on to much bigger fame got their start on the cover of 20Ans.

Photographer Steve Landis has photographed over 50 covers for a variety of leading interenational fashion magazines.

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