Fashion Reverie looks back at the career of iconic supermodel Jerry Hall. One of the first supermodels, Jerry Hall at 6`0 helped usher in the era of the glamour supermodels of the 70s and the 80s. Hall helped lay the path for legendary supermodels Janice Dickinson, Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista, and Cindy Crawford.
At the age of 16 Jerry Hall moved to Paris with insurance money she received from a car accident. After forming a relationship with famed fashion illustrator Antonio Lopez, Hall’s modeling career took off. By 1977, she had appeared on forty magazine covers, including Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue Italia, and Cosmopolitan, and was earning up to a $1,000 a day. Though early in her career, Jerry Hall was the face of Yves Saint Laurent’s Opium perfume and Revlon Cosmetics, around the same time Hall posed on the album sleeve of Roxy Music’s 1975 Sirens.
Jerry Hall’s relationship with rock legend Mick Jagger lasted for over 20 years and produced four children. Though Hall modeled through most of her tumultuous relationship with Jagger, her career in fashion took a backseat to raising her children and other creative projects.
Jerry Hall has had small roles in Batman in 1989, Princess Caraboo in 1994, as well as MTV’s Kept in 2005. In 2000, Hall starred as Mrs. Robinson in a Broadway production of The Graduate, and in 2005, Hall played Mother Lord in the West End revival of Cole Porter’s High Society.
Jerry Hall appeared with daughter Georgia May in a holiday campaign for H&M in 2011.
—Staff
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