Photos: Marco Glaviano, Polaris Images, John Casablancas, Camera Press/Lynn Goldsmith, Claude Guillaumain YOU ONLY HAVE TO LOOK at George Michael’s iconic Freedom video – a distillation of the supermodel moment – to see the handiwork of John Casablancas. In the ’70s and ’80s, his name became synonymous with the world’s most beautiful women, including the video’s stars, Cindy Crawford, Linda Evangelista and Naomi Campbell, whose careers he launched into the fashion stratosphere. He was the reason they didn’t have to get out of bed for less than $10,000.
His company, Elite Model Management, founded in 1972, was the world’s most successful agency. To the gossip columnists he was a godsend: rich, handsome, charismatic and surrounded by beautiful people living a wild lifestyle. To aspiring models, he was the man to…
