Lachlan Bailey Flashes Amber, Carolyn, Shalom for WSJ Magazine May 2021

Supermodels Amber Valletta, Carolyn Murphy and Shalom Harlow bring infectious joy to WSJ Magazine’s May 2021 issue with ‘Three’s Company. Clare Richardson styles the girls-just-wanna-have -fun legends in Balenciaga, Bode, Dodo Bar Or, Louis Vuitton, Re/Done,Stella McCartney,The Elder Statesman and more.

“They are one amazing iconic triplet—they are the late-’90s alt-queen supermodels,” says designer Jeremy Scott, who shaped his recent fall 2021 Moschino show around a vision of Harlow as Rosalind Russell in the 1939 film The Women, and cast all three for his cinematic presentation. “I said on set to the other models, ‘We are on the set with [legends], let’s pay homage and respect…. These are the ladies whose careers you hope to have one day.’ ”

Photographer Lachlan Bailey captures the merriment of ‘Three’s Company’ — with all of us wanting to let loose this summer./ Hair by Shay Ashual; makeup by Mark Carrasquillo; set design by Heath Mattioli

WSJ Magazine’s Elisa Lipsky-Karasz is behind the interview/narrative Amber, Carolyn & Shalom: The Neverending Joy of ‘90s Supermodels. It’s an excellent read with a wonderful nod to Steven Meisel.

“I never wanted to see [the original supermodels] out of work for us to take over,” says Valletta, 47. No, they wanted to study Linda, Christy and Cindy and all the other “supers” who were then on magazine covers monthly. And study they did, at shows, cheering like hooligans at the backstage monitors, says Harlow, and at group sessions with legendary photographer Steven Meisel. “Steven’s responsible for a lot of that lineage being carried through to us,” says Harlow.