Supermodel, dancer, actress, humanitarian. A tourism ambassador to Kenya, Nelson Mandela’s honorary granddaughter. A starring role in George Michael’s Freedom! video and Madonna’s Sex book, with her name on a record sleeve and novel too (although perhaps the less said about those, the better).
The V&A’s chosen subject for next year’s summer exhibition is already something of a renaissance woman, but this latest accolade adds yet another title to Naomi Campbell’s résumé, from household name to cultural icon.
It was announced yesterday that, at 53, the south London-born-and-bred supermodel will become the first woman of colour to be the sole focus of a show at the museum, and the first of her catwalk cohort to feature as a celebrity in her own right when Naomi
