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On 6 October 1942, a writer named Judith Cass had used the term " supermodel " for her article in the Chicago Tribune, which headlined " Super Models are Signed for Fashion Show ".

Later in 1943, an agent named Clyde Matthew Dessner used the term in a " how-to " book about modeling entitled So You Want to Be a Model!

According to Model: The Ugly Business of Beautiful Women by Michael Gross, Gross stated the term " supermodel " was first used by Dessner.

In 1947, anthropologist Harold Sterling Gladwin wrote " supermodel " in his book Men Out of Asia.

In 1949, the magazine Hearst's International Combined with Cosmopolitan referred to Anita Colby, the highest paid model at the time, as a " supermodel ": " She's been super model, super movie saleswoman, and top brass at Selznick and Paramount.

" On 18 October 1959, Vancouver's Chinatown News described Susan Chew as a " supermodel ".