Claudia Schiffer
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The Chanel ad is going to be amazing!!
And yes! New Chanel campaign will be amazing!
Yes! I wanna see the ads..are they out yet??
It's been like two days...!
^ Creative, was that the one in Central Park with the black hair? I have the catalog...
Very nice article from the Independent...
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/p...ly-on-a-shoot-that-i-become-sexy-1807355.html
Very nice article from the Independent...
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/p...ly-on-a-shoot-that-i-become-sexy-1807355.html
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"It's only on a shoot that I become sexy"
The Independent
24.10.2009
In an age where airbrushing rules supreme, we no longer expect celebrities to actually look like their magazine or screen images. It comes as a strangely reassuring sort of surprise then, when Claudia Schiffer looks, well, just like Claudia Schiffer. For a start, she is so tall that tilting my head to look upwards at her face feels like staring up at one of her billboards. Then there is her skin: taut, unlined, and as creamy and pale as a panna cotta. Her cheekbones are arched and cat-like, her eyes a bright ice-blue. Her long, thick blonde hair is straight out of a Timotei advert – it's the kind of thick, shiny mane that men want to tousle, and schoolgirls want to plait.
Schiffer is here in the Milan offices of D&G (Dolce & Gabbana's "contemporary line") - a chic, white-walled and floored building busy with Italians wearing all-black - as one of the faces of the brand's new perfume series. The campaign also features fellow "supers" Naomi Campbell and Eva Herzigova - who is swishing through the building, all long lean legs in spray-on jeans and peroxide blonde hair - and three male models. There are five unisex fragrances in the collection, and each one represents a different character trait. Schiffer is La Lune, a fresh white floral. "It's meant to be quite soft and sensual, mysterious, charismatic and also calming," explains Schiffer in a very un-self-conscious, matter-of-fact fashion, as if she was listing recipe ingredients. "In that sense it is like me because I am a very balanced person. I am calm most of the time." Indeed, the 39-year-old model has a very serene presence. As she talks, she gestures gently with graceful, balletic movements that bear little resemblance to the hyperbolic, verging-on-hysterical hand waving generally associated with fashion types.
This calmness is often mistaken for seriousness, perhaps a bit of squareness. While Schiffer's career might have been kick-started by her resemblance to Brigitte Bardot and her playfully sexual image, she is also known as being the sensible supermodel who has escaped the various drug habits, mental breakdowns, temper tantrums, court appearances, tempestuous relationships - or, gasp! - ageing that have afflicted various members of the supermodel gang. Schiffer hasn't had any major relationship scandals - although her pairing with perma-tanned magician David Copperfield in the Nineties was a bizarre match which met with some surprise, not to mention sarcastic headlines about how the model was under his spell. She is very anti-drugs, as is husband Matthew Vaughn, the film producer, director and mate of Guy Ritchie, with whom she was set up by friends in 2001.
"A lot of people say I am serious, but I don't think I am," Schiffer continues, in serious tones that show exactly why she has this reputation. "Also, people sometimes say I am reserved, maybe because Germans can come across as quite cold when actually they are not. The way Germans work is that they are slow to warm up but when they do they are your friend for life and very loyal."
When Schiffer began modelling, after being spotted in a Düsseldorf nightclub aged 17, she was "so shy" and "would blush bright red if I ever saw anyone looking at me in the mirror". She remembers "an editor at Vogue who called me the girl with the woollen underwear. It was a symbol of the girl from the small town, the Heidi in the mountains thing. She meant that because I was shy I wouldn't arrive at the job dressed in a sexy way. Instead, I would be in a big baggy sweater and jeans." Did it bother her? "Oh no. I would rather that than have people say, 'Oh she's so scandalous'," she shudders.
While the other models exuded confidence, for Schiffer, "it was only once I was in front of the camera that I would cross the line and become sexy. When I'm on a photo shoot I'm not shy at all. I take my clothes off and strike very sexy poses." The secret to Claudia's longevity is that she has taken charge of her image and her career by compartmentalising herself (and by fiercely guarding her privacy: in 2006 she successfully sued the publishers of a book by her former cook for using an unauthorised quote). There's sexy Claudia, who the glamour-hungry public get, the polite professional - she's in this mode today - and the private, candid Claudia, that only her friends and the closest colleagues see. Clearly, the latter was on display for the D&G shoot, which involved the photographer Mario Testino ("He's fun, he's got a great sense of humour, he has lots of stories..."), Naomi Campbell and Eva Herzigova. "I see Naomi a little bit less," Schiffer admits, "but I see Eva quite a lot - we both live in London now. If you haven't seen a girlfriend for a long time it's like, Oh my God, we have so much fun."
While her self-containment might not provide the scandal and behind-the-scenes titillation that a society run on gossip craves, it's kept "Brand Claudia" as untarnished and lustrous as ever. When she poses for a portrait, she obligingly walks over to a wall where the photographer deems the light to be best, and right on cue Sexy Claudia appears. She slightly closes her eyes, in a sleepily indolent expression, tips her head coyly to the side and poses for all she's worth like a young Bardot on the Croisette. The transformation is mesmerising.
It's this type of charisma that has landed Schiffer more magazine covers than any other model. She scooped her first major campaign for Guess jeans just a year after being spotted; Karl Lagerfeld made her his muse and persuaded her to make her catwalk debut at a Chanel couture show in 1990; and in 1992 she signed a record-breaking $10m contract with Revlon. The same year she appeared on the cover of Vogue's 100t
The Independent
24.10.2009
In an age where airbrushing rules supreme, we no longer expect celebrities to actually look like their magazine or screen images. It comes as a strangely reassuring sort of surprise then, when Claudia Schiffer looks, well, just like Claudia Schiffer. For a start, she is so tall that tilting my head to look upwards at her face feels like staring up at one of her billboards. Then there is her skin: taut, unlined, and as creamy and pale as a panna cotta. Her cheekbones are arched and cat-like, her eyes a bright ice-blue. Her long, thick blonde hair is straight out of a Timotei advert – it's the kind of thick, shiny mane that men want to tousle, and schoolgirls want to plait.
Schiffer is here in the Milan offices of D&G (Dolce & Gabbana's "contemporary line") - a chic, white-walled and floored building busy with Italians wearing all-black - as one of the faces of the brand's new perfume series. The campaign also features fellow "supers" Naomi Campbell and Eva Herzigova - who is swishing through the building, all long lean legs in spray-on jeans and peroxide blonde hair - and three male models. There are five unisex fragrances in the collection, and each one represents a different character trait. Schiffer is La Lune, a fresh white floral. "It's meant to be quite soft and sensual, mysterious, charismatic and also calming," explains Schiffer in a very un-self-conscious, matter-of-fact fashion, as if she was listing recipe ingredients. "In that sense it is like me because I am a very balanced person. I am calm most of the time." Indeed, the 39-year-old model has a very serene presence. As she talks, she gestures gently with graceful, balletic movements that bear little resemblance to the hyperbolic, verging-on-hysterical hand waving generally associated with fashion types.
This calmness is often mistaken for seriousness, perhaps a bit of squareness. While Schiffer's career might have been kick-started by her resemblance to Brigitte Bardot and her playfully sexual image, she is also known as being the sensible supermodel who has escaped the various drug habits, mental breakdowns, temper tantrums, court appearances, tempestuous relationships - or, gasp! - ageing that have afflicted various members of the supermodel gang. Schiffer hasn't had any major relationship scandals - although her pairing with perma-tanned magician David Copperfield in the Nineties was a bizarre match which met with some surprise, not to mention sarcastic headlines about how the model was under his spell. She is very anti-drugs, as is husband Matthew Vaughn, the film producer, director and mate of Guy Ritchie, with whom she was set up by friends in 2001.
"A lot of people say I am serious, but I don't think I am," Schiffer continues, in serious tones that show exactly why she has this reputation. "Also, people sometimes say I am reserved, maybe because Germans can come across as quite cold when actually they are not. The way Germans work is that they are slow to warm up but when they do they are your friend for life and very loyal."
When Schiffer began modelling, after being spotted in a Düsseldorf nightclub aged 17, she was "so shy" and "would blush bright red if I ever saw anyone looking at me in the mirror". She remembers "an editor at Vogue who called me the girl with the woollen underwear. It was a symbol of the girl from the small town, the Heidi in the mountains thing. She meant that because I was shy I wouldn't arrive at the job dressed in a sexy way. Instead, I would be in a big baggy sweater and jeans." Did it bother her? "Oh no. I would rather that than have people say, 'Oh she's so scandalous'," she shudders.
While the other models exuded confidence, for Schiffer, "it was only once I was in front of the camera that I would cross the line and become sexy. When I'm on a photo shoot I'm not shy at all. I take my clothes off and strike very sexy poses." The secret to Claudia's longevity is that she has taken charge of her image and her career by compartmentalising herself (and by fiercely guarding her privacy: in 2006 she successfully sued the publishers of a book by her former cook for using an unauthorised quote). There's sexy Claudia, who the glamour-hungry public get, the polite professional - she's in this mode today - and the private, candid Claudia, that only her friends and the closest colleagues see. Clearly, the latter was on display for the D&G shoot, which involved the photographer Mario Testino ("He's fun, he's got a great sense of humour, he has lots of stories..."), Naomi Campbell and Eva Herzigova. "I see Naomi a little bit less," Schiffer admits, "but I see Eva quite a lot - we both live in London now. If you haven't seen a girlfriend for a long time it's like, Oh my God, we have so much fun."
While her self-containment might not provide the scandal and behind-the-scenes titillation that a society run on gossip craves, it's kept "Brand Claudia" as untarnished and lustrous as ever. When she poses for a portrait, she obligingly walks over to a wall where the photographer deems the light to be best, and right on cue Sexy Claudia appears. She slightly closes her eyes, in a sleepily indolent expression, tips her head coyly to the side and poses for all she's worth like a young Bardot on the Croisette. The transformation is mesmerising.
It's this type of charisma that has landed Schiffer more magazine covers than any other model. She scooped her first major campaign for Guess jeans just a year after being spotted; Karl Lagerfeld made her his muse and persuaded her to make her catwalk debut at a Chanel couture show in 1990; and in 1992 she signed a record-breaking $10m contract with Revlon. The same year she appeared on the cover of Vogue's 100t
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Dolce & Gabbana Fragrance Making Of with Claudia Schiffer, Naomi Campbell und Eva Herzigova.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQVlCAqAgIY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQVlCAqAgIY
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Yes! Both, blond and black hair. I looooooooooove her there (and anywhere
). I specially like one in which she was leaning her head in Brad's shoulder with her hair over her face...Similar Threads
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