I came of age in the era of the supermodel. Those were the days! When models were incredibly glamorous and everywhere and they were the biggest partiers and most scandalous celebrities out there. As print media has declined, the importance of editorial work for models has dissipated. Nowadays, the biggest prerequisite for calling yourself a “model” is your number of Instagram followers rather than your number of magazine covers. But not everyone is happy with this current crop of Insta-models. Just this year, Karolina Kurkova and Rebecca Romijn both threw shade on the Kendall Jenners and Gigi Hadids of the modeling world. So what does Stephanie Seymour think? Seymour was one of the biggest supermodels of the ‘90s, right up there with Christy, Linda, Naomi, Cindy and Claudia. Seymour was asked about it by Vanity Fair:

Former model Rebecca Romijn, 43, told Entertainment Tonight last April that Kendall Jenner and Gigi Hadid “are not true supermodels,” and that she found it frustrating that social-media stars are now considered supermodels and setting style standards. Vanity Fair asked one of the original six, Stephanie Seymour, if she agreed, at Thursday night’s amfAR Inspiration Gala in New York.

“They are completely different than we were,” she said. “Supermodels are sort of the thing of the past. They deserve their own title. [Kendall and Gigi] are beautiful girls, and I support all of them, but they need their own title.”

And what should their title be? “Bitches of the moment!” Seymour said with a laugh. “That would be a good title for them.”

While the debate rages on, Seymour is thankful that her modeling heyday happened before camera phones and photo sharing made anonymity virtually impossible.

“I’m so glad social media didn’t exist during our time. I’m a private person, and sharing everything feels odd to me,” she said. “And because there weren’t cameras around us all the time, we got away with so much more and had so much more fun. We didn’t have people watching us all the time, and we weren’t putting ourselves out there in a way that was turning the media against us or for us in any way. We still had our privacy, and there was more of an illusion behind the girls. You lose your illusion when you give much of yourself away, and that’s what I don’t like about it. I’m so glad it didn’t exist back then. I can’t imagine what it’s like for the girls today.”

[From Vanity Fair]

“Bitches of the moment” has a certain ring to it. Was this shade? I’m feeling shade. Cindy, Linda, Stephanie and all of those ladies really did put the work in – all of those ladies worked from their teenage years, and almost all of them put in a solid 20 years’ work, from editorial to runway. I think if Gigi and Kendall stick with it and don’t flame out in a year (like a certain Angry Baby who will not be named), they’ll be more accepted by the “old guard” supermodels. But for now, yes, they are the Bitches of the Moment.

Photos courtesy of WENN.