Watch: Duran Duran and the Supermodels spark Girl Panic!
What happens when you mix five supermodels and five Eighties popstars? A pretty bonkers pop video...
It's the video we've been hearing about for eternity. Finally today the promo for Duran Duran's latest single Girl Panic! hit Youtube in a nine and a half minute puff of fluff, sparkles, lipstick, leather and legs.
Ladies and gentleman, it's the return of the 'Supers' - Naomi Campbell (as lead singer Simon Le Bon), Helena Christensen (Roger Taylor), Eva Herzigova (Nick Rhodes), Cindy Crawford (John Taylor) and Yasmin Le Bon who is keen to point out "I am NOT a member of Duran Duran". The girls have been draughted if to play the boys, perform Girl Panic! as the boys and be interviewed by the boys themselves about how amazing and talented they all are.
If that sounds baflling, it gets stranger. The video, directed by Jonas Akerlund (he of Lady Gaga 'Telephone' fame) appears to be a riff on Louis Vuitton's autumn/winter 2011 collection, right down to the S&M gear, hotpants and bell-hops. It was even shot at London's Savoy Hotel, a reference Marc Jacobs cited in his post-show interviews.
However, far from being the work of Jacobs, the video was in fact styled by dynamic Italian design duo, Dolce & Gabbana, who make a fleeting cameo in the film.
By this point it's clear not much is supposed to make sense (again, remember Lady Gaga's Telephone), so it's best just to go with it and soak up the glamour (and blatant promotion of the various sponsors).
Highlight for us? Naomi Campbell's Austin Powers tribute seven long minutes in.
It's no 'Freedom 90' - a Supermodel reunion isn't a Supermodel reunion without Linda Evangelista and Christy Turlington - but we kind of love it anyway.
Naomi Campbell as Austin Powers leads the Duran Duran Supermodel tribute band
