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"Are you sitting down? If not, you might want to grab a seat. I don&amp;amp;#8217;t want to freak you out or anything but I think that maybe, just maybe hell hath frozen over: This weekend during the Paris fashion shows, a 38-year-old and a 40-year-old model were spotted on the Hermes runway! The gorgeous, scene-stealing Gen X&amp;amp;#8217;ers were none other than Stephanie Seymour (40) and Naomi Campbell (38), two members of the &amp;amp;#8216;90s all-star catwalker circle for whom the term supermodel was coined. Granted, these curvy glamazons aren&amp;amp;#8217;t exactly your average thirty-somethings, but&amp;amp;#8212;thrillingly&amp;amp;#8212;nor do they fall in the adolescent, super-skinny model population that has sparked more than a few heated body-image debates. Naomi Campbell at the Hermes Spring 2009 show. And, I have to tell you that watching the mature &amp;amp;#8216;supes sashay down the runway followed by fresh-faced, teenage models was kind of like trying to read Francine Pascal&amp;amp;#8217;s Sweet Valley High tomes after devouring Madame Bovary: The youthful follow-ups fell flat compared to their older, wiser, more confident counterparts. The only disappointing thing about their appearance during Paris fashion week was that we didn&amp;amp;#8217;t see more of them on the runway! (Naomi took in the YSL show from the front row, while Stephanie was spotted in the Louis Vuitton audience.) Are you as excited as I am to see this kind of diversity on the runway? What other supe&amp;amp;#8217; would you like to see back on the runway? Who was (and still is?) your favorite? (Cindy, Claudia, Christy, Linda, etc) What do you think it will take for designers use curvier and more mature models on their runway? Stephanie Seymour at the Hermes Spring 2009 show."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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