Supermodel Naomi Campbell covers the May 2024 issue of Harper’s Bazaar France [IG], accompanied by IG text that captures Campbell’s unique personality.

Ignoring retouching that is fixated on Naomi’s lower lip and mouth — and not with a light hand — the supermodel goes sporty and looks fabulous. Styled by Elodie David, Naomi wears Loewe and Levis on the cover.

Photographer Karim Sadli [IG] is in the studio, capturing the woman described [translated from French] “with almost four decades at the top of the podium, a breathtaking figure, iron will and discipline, universal notoriety, to embody it?”

Bazaar France continues in advance of the London V&A Naomi Campbell exhibition opening June 22, 2024 with their candid description of the supermodel, writing:

“Being a warrior, having a mind of steel, knowing how to take hits, landing a few, falling and always getting back up, being able to learn from your mistakes, such seems to be Naomi Campbell's karma. What if that was the prerogative of champions?”

AOC loves that last line question, one that falls into the radical optimism — Dua Lipa style — discussion from Monday. I’m not very familiar with stories around highly-talented people that don’t involve a degree of “difficulty” in their personas. Steve Jobs, founder of Apple, comes to mind.