Interview of Linda Morand

Founder of miniMadMOD60s

LOST ICONIC IMAGES OF TOP MODELS SPEAK OF THE CULTURE AND ETHOS OF THE 1960's.

"I said to myself....Why shouldn't there be a website about the great fashion models of the past?"

Interview of Linda Morand by Emerald Alexander

You have spearheaded a Research Project which has brought thousands of lost images to light. How did miniMadMOD60s get started?

About three years ago, I was toying with the idea of making a video about facial exercise and putting it on an infomercial. I was working on a business plan and was advised to mention that I had been a top model for awhile in the Sixties.

After receiving my proposal, the investor did a Google search on me. Nothing came up but two walk-ons I had in a few movies, mostly just for fun because I knew the directors. He actually said that for a top model there was nothing at all about me on the web. It was almost embarrassing.

I Googled my name and he was right!

Then I Googled many of the top models of the Sixties. There was nothing about them either! Most of them had no footprint on the web.

Luckily I had my yellowing tearsheets, to prove

that I was telling the truth. As I looked through my scrapbooks and the loose magazine pages I noticed that they were getting fragile with age.

I thought about having them scanned and put onto a CD so that I could preserve them.

But it got me to thinking. Why shouldn't there be a website about the great models of the Sixties, Seventies and before? These girls who were all over the covers of Vogue and Bazaar and doing ten page spreads inside. If there had been a web then, they would all have been all over the Internet.

Today, if a company or even a person does not have a web presence they are often overlooked in history.