The Crush: Naomi Campbell

Do we think Naomi Campbell cares that we are madly in lust with her? Do we think she would do anything other than step all over us were we to fall at her feet?

Does she give two hoots that after she brought the rodeo to Milan Fashion Week (modelling Coyote Ugly couture for Philipp Plein) we found our circa 2001 cowboy boots at the back of our wardrobe and have been wearing them ever since? No! Of course not. She is Naomi freaking Campbell, the fiercest bitch in fashion… or is she?

Ever since she swapped her signature long silky locks for a jaunty Afro, we have started to wonder if the woman who once famously declared, ‘I don’t like to lose. If I’m told “no”, I’ll find another way to get my “yes”,’ has gone soft. You simply have to be a fun and fabulous kinda girl to own that ’fro; it evokes 1970s Blaxploitation film Foxy Brown, B-movie glamour, disco diva — what it does not evoke is intimidating ice maiden who will throw a mobile phone at her housekeeper’s head. And that’s not all. Since

this hair-raising transformation Ms C has been photographed smiling — laughing — but most tellingly, she agreed to appear on television with Ant and Dec. ANT AND DEC! Sure, she probably assumed they were there to pick up her dry-cleaning, but what if she thought, ‘Such charming chaps, thank goodness I’ve ditched the Russian billionaire...’ Maybe, just maybe Naomi is starting to chill out and go with the ’fro. Could now be the moment to let the superist of supers know how much Crush j’adores her? Duck!