The W Magazine 50th Anniversary Issue hit parade continues with Shalom Harlow Is Just Happy to Be Here. Harlow is styled by W EIC Sara Moonves, wearing Bottega Venetta, Celine by Hedi Slimane, Comme des Garçons, Fendi, Gucci, Louis Vuitton, Valentino and more. Michael Thompson [IG] is behind the lens. / Hair by Eugene Souleiman; makeup by James Kaliardos

Asked by Jenny Comita about her earliest reflections on her supermodel status, Harlow responds that she and Amber Valletta were originally called the ‘anti-supermodels.”

“We were the antidote to the traditional supermodels, because we represented a different aesthetic and we were confronting what the beauty norms were at that point: the Richard Avedon super-goddess glamazons.”

AOC has always argued — having lived through the changeover — that healthy and fit, size 4-6 US glamazon supermodels — who at the time represented 25% of American women — were much too high-throttle confident for fashion media and business executives to handle. And that includes executive women in hgh-powered fashion positions.

Perhaps this is why AOC struggles to deal with weeping models making more money than the supers ever dreamed of earning, even in today’s dollars. Or Serena Williams, the GOAT of women’s tennis, who made $29 million in 2016, according to Forbes. Today you make $50 million a year and you don’t have to win a match in almost two years, because it’s in your contract?

Times have definitely changed — but it is empowering for the female sports figures who can negotiate those terms today. Models can’t gain 20 - 30 pounds with no penalty in their contracts. It’s a reason to lose your agency. and client base. Have a baby, great. But get back in shape.

During the reign of Christy, Linda, Naomi, Cindy and Tatjana — the original five and add Claudia for six — we saw women taking real power in fashion world. Those women were true social disrupters, not demanding to be called feminists, but they were running their own lives and inspiring women worldwide with their moxie.

Back to Shalom Harlow — she has something to say about the differences in fashion world today, and her comments are interesting — including about parties. And if you don’t know about Harlow’s really serious, long-term health scare, read on at W Magazine, link above in first paragraph.