German supermodel of the 90s Claudia Schiffer has become a symbol of a fashion era that still inspires admiration. On August 25, the beauty celebrates her sweet 54th birthday and still remains a shining gem for style connoisseurs. Unlike her colleagues like Kate Moss, Schiffer has never made headlines for her antics.
"I've never had a desire to be in the spotlight," she admitted to ELLE magazine in 2017. Schiffer has always been considered diligent, disciplined and free from scandals, DW writes. "Over the past 30 years, I have had a reputation as a kind of 'Ice Queen,'" the model said about her 30-year career in her autobiographical book.
She was spotted at a disco Representatives of a modeling agency spotted the 17-year-old on the dance floor of a disco in Düsseldorf. At the time, she aspired to follow in her father's footsteps and become a lawyer. But the shy girl from Rheinberg, a northwestern German town, soon became a star.
Her blond locks and legendary pouty nose were featured in advertisements for fashion, cosmetics, and automotive brands around the world. In addition to catwalk walks for the haute couture brand Chanel and modeling for companies such as Mango and Accessorize, Schiffer's face soon graced the front pages of more than a thousand magazines. It was a lucrative career: today, the supermodel's net worth is estimated at around 200 million euros.
Karl Lagerfeld's muse In 1989, German photographer Ellen von Unwerth photographed Claudia Schiffer in a legendary .