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Ivan Bart, President of IMG Models "Shalom Harlow defined the '90s. If you think about it, a decade doesn't really begin until you're three or four years into it—that's when it begins to take shape. So around '93, we were just seeing the end of the supermodels like Linda Evangelista, Christy Turlington and Naomi Campbell. Then in walks Shalom Harlow and Amber Valletta. They were not the Amazonian über models. I still remember, Shalom would walk into a room with these granny glasses and you'd think, 'Who is that librarian standing over there?' But after hair and makeup, she'd be completely transformed. No one could walk a runway like Shalom. She would jut her hips out; she was so graceful. She became the muse to Marc Jacobs, who started the grunge movement, and then to so many designers like Alexander McQueen. This moment goes down in fashion history as one of the best: it was 1998 and McQueen put her in this simple white cinched- waist flouncy dress and he had her positioned between these two robotic arms. She's an actress; she was seemingly struggling as these arms came out and sprayed her with paint. By the end, it was a graffiti dress. People just were clapping and screaming for 25 minutes." BAL HARBOUR 143