How dare you be so independent? series generated major PR buzz for the brand and for the teen “I can sit at a lunch today and not think, ‘Oh, I’m so lucky to be here.’ I can think, intellectually, I can have a conversation with anybody. “Oh yeah. And then I can also say, well, you did have an impact on the fashion industry. Brooke Shields Reveals That Her Calvin Klein Jeans from the '80s Still Fit. It just stopped me from getting depressed. ", "I would just dance primarily – that was my main thing. In 1981 alone, Shields graced the covers of more than 30 magazines. These days, she will sit in meetings with companies who are interested in working with her, and keep hearing the word “brand” – “Well, it’s your brand, it’s your brand!” – and she’ll realise with some pride that, for the first time, her brand is bound up with her and her longevity, not her hair, or chest, or youth. Makeup: Meredith Baraf, both at Bernstein & Andriulli. Necklaces by Fruzsina Keehn. The actress, model and mother of … Informations sur votre appareil et sur votre connexion Internet, y compris votre adresse IP, Navigation et recherche lors de l’utilisation des sites Web et applications Verizon Media. “I was famous from the neck up,” she jokes. pair of super tight, high-waisted jeans. Adrianne Pasquarelli The success of the campaign, for both Ms. Shields and the brand, tuck in knees -- while solving a math problem? Nothing! referred to Ms. Shields' in the ads as "Lolita-esque" and the On the back pocket of the jeans and on a denim jacket, Simmons affixed an image of the 1980s Calvin Klein ad. (There's a little compilation of It’s creepy. Ms. Shields had had nude photographs taken of reads a passage from a novel and proclaims, "Reading is to the mind Brooke Shields is preaching body positivity. would be considered staid, was responsible for introducing the I mean, what kid says, ‘I love my hair so much that I’m going to create a hairdryer with my name on it?’ Never once was I thinking, ‘I really want to do my own line of clothes.’”. When the Brooke Shields doll rolled off the production line, her mother insisted that they alter the torso to represent her flatter chest. And then I realized after being stuck at home for such a long period of time, depression started to creep in," she said. Yet I also think I couldn’t have even been with my [now] husband had I not been in that relationship with Andre.”. She also played Joey’s delusional stalker in an episode of Friends – which involved maniacally licking Matt LeBlanc’s hands and giving him a passionate kiss, which she later wrote enraged Agassi so much that he smashed up his trophies. Object name: 1000002884ED00006_Calvin_Kl. Jeans are sex. It’s dumb. Attending the Calvin Klein show at New York fashion week in February this year, Shields was mobbed by people wanting selfies with her. Are you a print subscriber? I think I got out pretty unscathed. Nothing.”. “I can get into them, but it looks painful,” she said. You know, we were one summer away from Grey Gardens.”. ©2020 Verizon Media. What happened next? “She tapped in to that, but by the same token, she wanted it to go away. She was initially a child model and gained critical acclaim at age 12 for her leading role in Louis Malle's film Pretty Baby (1978), in which she played a child prostitute in New Orleans at the beginning of the 20th century. A chaste pin-up, she peered out from her lustrous mane of hair, exotic but innocent, a lip-glossed naïf in a culture that has long sought to reconcile competing strains of libertarianism and puritanism. After that came the Calvin spots and then But despite the headlines, she hasn’t agreed to appear in any new campaigns for Calvin Klein. “To stay a virgin, there was something very safe in that. Tom Shone. Nothing! I do sort of regret having hairdryers with my name on them and a Brooke doll and all these failed endeavours that were cool to do in the 1980s. Own your curves and strengths rather than trying to look like somebody else or be skinny. It was a really interesting disconnect. To see her just get up and start dancing – you watch it and you think, ‘That’s so cool. You can't plan on being iconic. Why are you so healthy?’ I’m like, ‘Wait a minute, I raised you like that?’ All of a sudden I’m jealous of my own kids because I’m thinking, ‘How dare you be so normal?’ You know?”, She and her daughters were watching Miley Cyrus perform on The Voice recently (Shields once played Cyrus’s mother in the Hannah Montana film), and she marvelled at the artist’s transition from Disney tween to sexually uninhibited pop icon. Pour autoriser Verizon Media et nos partenaires à traiter vos données personnelles, sélectionnez 'J'accepte' ou 'Gérer les paramètres' pour obtenir plus d’informations et pour gérer vos choix. And I wanted Dick [Avedon] to be proud of me. campaign, including the too-sexy-for-TV spot, contributed to sales I mean, I’m sure there’s still time, but somehow I didn’t become a tragic figure,” she says. After graduating and ending her relationship with Cain, she briefly dated Liam Neeson, before meeting Andre Agassi in 1993. Yet she also pushed Shields towards sexually risque material – commissioning a photographer to take nude photos at 10, the role in Pretty Baby at age 11. 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At the event, Whoopi Goldberg honoured American designer Thom Browne with an award, and as Shields settles on a pink sofa in the all-white photographic studio where we meet, she tells me she can’t get Goldberg’s speech out of her head, “I don’t know how old Whoopi is, but she’s got to be 60 or something… She said that it wasn’t until a few years ago that she started feeling comfortable in her own skin,” Shields says. In Blue Lagoon, I’m using a glue gun, taping my hair, anything I can so my body doesn’t show I have boobs… And I didn’t realise I was doing it, because I was a kid. But, when she was recruited by designer Calvin Klein to appear in a series of overtly sexy print and television ads (shot by Richard Avedon) for his new line of super-tight jeans, she became infamous for uttering the flirtatious line: “Do you know what comes between me and my Calvins? You want to know what comes between me and my Calvins? “Can you believe that? It really started off as me calling my trainer and saying, ‘Please, can you FaceTime with me and tell me what I can do?’ And it grew from there.”. It’s weird, right?”. In the TV commercial, Shields memorised and recited an excerpt of Darwin’s theory of natural selection, only to find the subject popping up in a quiz in her science class at school the next day. I never wanted anything easier. To the Shields duo, however, the campaign was as innocent as - She platonically dated George Michael (“Nobody had ever been willing to move so slowly. This article contains affiliate links, which means we may earn a small commission if a reader clicks through and makes a purchase. By Caroline Hallemann. the line with the cornerstone spot in campaign, which Ms. Shields Though the commercial was banned by ABC and CBS in New York, Klein himself didn’t back down from his choice. Shields’s fame felt bigger than her mother’s addiction. Shields’s virginity, proudly proclaimed in her autobiography, On Your Own, published when she was 20, was something of a national obsession. And I’m a mom, and I’m a businesswoman. Brooke Shields is preaching body positivity, telling Fox News that she loves her curves and isn't interested in fitting in her old Calvin Klein jeans. into the brand's exploitation of young models and eventually By her daughter when she was only 10 years old, and a few years later License type: Rights-managed. Perhaps Ms. Shields' mother had foreseen the career-launching There’s something that takes me over physically and I don’t remember a lot of it. It must be love,” she later said) and was friends with Michael Jackson. More information. I’ve been around so long, I’m not scared to go and talk to Anna Wintour or whoever. There was a bumper sticker that read “I ♥ Gstaad” and at the bottom of the sign, in parentheses, were the words “Previously owned by Brooke Shields”. I’m celebrating who I am now, not trying to get the body I had when I was 15," she said. Sat 30 Sep 2017 05.00 EDT • Commenting on this piece? “If I had I would’ve been celebrated. Shirley Temple and as much a win for the teen's acting career as it “Not really, because it wasn’t a choice. Not that she has not had a previously noteworthy resume. passed away last week. You may unsubscribe at any time. "My approach to working out comes from more of a rehab approach because I had a partial knee replacement and I’m sort of preparing to have a full knee replacement on my other knee,” she explained. Rings by Ayaka Nishi and Kalevala Jewelry. Brooke Shields has just got back from a lunch at the Lincoln Center, to mark the opening of New York fashion week. Where is my version of that?’”, “It came in comedy for me,” she says, with satisfaction. - 16 hours 9 min ago. these you can see here. ) How did you do that? controversial 1980 Calvin Klein jeans campaign shot and directed by and her Calvins sent a few networks, including CBS, into shock. 2 hours 32 min ago, By But for Calvin, buzz around the entire I mean, this is my 14-year-old! Available for everyone, funded by readers. I could’ve come back from the brink and then they’d be like, ‘Oh wait, she seriously wants to be an actress’ or, ‘She’s really got talent.”’ Shields married television writer Chris Henchy in 2001 and has written about the postnatal depression she suffered after the birth of their first daughter in 2003. Hanging out at Studio 54 with Andy Warhol and Grace Jones, she stayed drug-free and was always in bed by 10pm. Brooke Shields: ‘I got out pretty unscathed’. I'd rather be strong and fit than anything else.”, Coping with COVID-19: Are you breathing correctly? © 2020 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. "One of the messages I want to share with other women is to celebrate yourself. Their In the early 80s, she was the most famous teenager on the planet – modelling for Calvin Klein and hanging out at Studio 54. At last winter’s New York Fashion Week, designer Raf Simons debuted his first Calvin Klein Collection with a nod to the iconic Brooke Shields ad. A shampoo model at the age of 11 months, she appeared in her first film at the age of nine, lit a blaze of controversy when she played a pre-teen prostitute in Louis Malle’s Pretty Baby (1978), and went on to appear in The Blue Lagoon (1980) and Franco Zeffirelli’s Endless Love (1981) – teen films sweet enough to give you toothache. 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