Dressing up with Linda Evangelista

I keep in touch with Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell, Christy Turlington and the other supers. They’re my girls. When we weren’t shooting, we did what regular people do: go out to eat or for a drink, or we’d just pile up in one person’s hotel-room bed so we weren’t alone.

Karl Lagerfeld seemed like a god when I first met him in 1985. I was so intimidated. No one is better at telling you what you want to hear, but he’s also an exceptional listener.

Working with Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana takes me straight back to my Italian roots. Even though I grew up in Canada, I always felt Italian: my grandparents spoke Italian, we ate Italian food, we said Italian Mass and we shopped in the Italian supermarket.

Gianni Versace was so passionate and enthusiastic. We looked so sexy for his A/W 1991 catwalk show. It might have been the lighting, or because it was at night, but everything just felt more pumped up.

I cried my head off when the photographer Peter Lindbergh talked me into cutting my hair short for a Vogue shoot in Greece in 1989. I was confirmed for 20 shows in Milan the week after and 16 cancelled.

At Catholic school in Canada I wore white cowboy boots with fringing and a metallic headband with my uniform because I never wanted to look like anyone else.

I’m crafty at so many things — I can needlepoint, crochet, knit and macramé — but the one thing I can’t do is sew. I wish I could, it would have helped me transform my school uniform.

My mother Marisa used to sew fabulous outfits for me. My favourite was a white vest with a white skirt, which was quite Mod, and which I wore with a matching red blouse and go-go boots.

Charlie’s Angels were so hot when I was growing up. I used to try to do my hair like theirs, but it always ended up looking like sausage rolls.

Music helps when you’re on the runway. I used to love Prince, Joan Jett and all that rock stuff.

I’ve done so many Vogue anniversary covers I can’t remember them all, but the US Vogue 100th was pretty special, with the ten of us supers all together in white on a ladder.