The fashion scene then was a vacuum, equal parts wildly exciting as it was exclusionary. In an industry notorious for gatekeeping access to the inner sanctum and holding its seasoned runway recruits to impossible standards of beauty, Campbell was the one who abolished that status quo. In 1988, at the age of 18, she became the first Black model to bag a French Vogue cover. 

Back then, diversity and representation were not familiar terms in the fashion space, and yet somehow, this force of fashion managed to elbow her way in. Now some 66-plus Vogue covers down, she is adding another one to the roster, all while still ruling the catwalk for decades, which equals light years in the modelling business.