[1] Each of the five women – Stephanie Seymour, Cindy Crawford, Christy Turlington, Tatjana Patitz and Naomi Campbell – was a noted muse, friend, and frequent subject of the photographer's fashion and fine art work.
[4] The photography session was originally for a May 1989 pictorial in Rolling Stone magazine "The Hot Issue", and included the byline: "Four sizzling fashion models prove clothes don't always make the woman.
I would go and visit Herb when we were in town, and I went to his house on Hillside, to go hang out for the day, and they were doing this beautiful portrait on the deck of this guest bedroom...They said, "Oh, just for the last picture, just pop in for a second," and that’s an image that I love.
In Rolston's tour through the Getty Museum for the Icons of Style exhibition, he said of Stephanie, Cindy, Christy, Tatjana, Naomi, Hollywood: "The late 1980s saw several other major changes in the literal landscape of fashion.
A particular group of models, the so-called ‘supers,’ seen here in an iconic image by Los Angeles-born photographer Herb Ritts from 1989 entitled Stephanie, Cindy, Christy, Tatjana, Naomi, Hollywood, marks that moment indelibly.
And as the ethos of Hollywood and celebrity became primary in the worlds of fashion, beauty and luxury, Los Angeles itself began a slow rise.