Tuesday, February 24, 2015

90s SuperModel: Nadja is her Name!


Fashion designer Valentino once commented on her physical resemblance to Marlene Dietrich.



 A New York Times fashion columnist, Guy Trebay, wrote of her "ice maiden visage and pole vaulter's legs".





She once held the record for being the model with the longest legs in the world in the Guinnes Book of Records.



Who is Nadja Auermann?90s SuperModel, German model and actress.


Nadja Auermann was born on March 19, 1971, to a banker couple in West Berlin, Germany. Though interested in architecture and furniture design, she left school at 18 and began waiting tables. "I wasn't sure what I wanted to do," she once confessed in an interview.


"I was bright, but I decided to take a year off to think about things and work as a waitress or something. But then I was sitting in a café and a woman came up and asked me to model. This time I thought, why not? I called her a few weeks later."



In 1990 Nadja moved to Paris to pursue modeling and signed with Karins Modeling Agency. After a year with little work, she left Karins and signed with Elite. Within months she was starring in Benetton ads and booking jobs with photographers like Paolo Roversi and Ellen von Unwerth, who featured Nadja exclusively in a Vogue spread entitled "She's an Enigma."




 As Nadja's visibility increased, she began changing her look. She caused a booking frenzy when she went platinum in 1993, and the following year she chopped her locks for an edgier do.




 By then she was an established cover girl, appearing in classic Gianni Versace ads alongside fellow supermodels Cindy Crawford, Christy Turlington, Claudia Schiffer, and Kristen McMenamy. Nadja's status was further cemented when she landed both Harper's Bazaar and Vogue's cover for the September 1994 issues—a rare feat for a model of any caliber.



The "blonde angel" also lent her face to projects outside of modeling. She rocked out with super Linda Evangelista in George Michael's "Too Funky" video, and has starred in a number of German films.



Nadja continues to model on and off, but mostly enjoys being a mother to daughter Cosima son Nicholas and vacationing in the German Baltic spa haven of Heiligendamm. She walked as a sexy nurse in the Richard Prince-inspired Louis Vuitton Spring 2008 collection, and in September 2009 was featured in a Harper's Bazaar spread shot by the legendary Peter Lindbergh, who once called the German beauty his muse.
Nadja Auermann was born March 19, 1971, in West Berlin, Germany. The daughter of bankers, was hoping to pursue a career in architecture, furniture design, or even as the chancellor of Germany, her path took an unexpected twist when she was discovered by a modeling scout while sitting in a Berlin caf in 1989. The scout wanted Nadja to pose for a travel catalogue, and although she was hand-picked out of a crowd, the beginning of her career was a failure. Nadja managed to sign with the Karin modeling agency, and signed a contract with Elite Modeling Management a year later. Nadja landed modeling gigs, but it wasn't until she bleached her hair platinum blonde for a prt--porter collection that her career took off.


Everyone from Harper's Bazaar to Vogue came crawling, as both magazines featured portfolios on the "it" girl in modeling. By 1994, Nadja (now donning a cropped haircut) was the model for runways and magazine photo spreads. This was made clear with a 26-page Neiman Marcus shoot in Harper's Bazaar and consecutive Vogue photo shoots in 1994. One of the select few to appear on both the cover of Harper's Bazaar and Vogue US the same month, Nadja also joined the big name supermodels to appear in George Michael's Too Funky video, sharing the spotlight with Linda Evangelista. That same year, the German beauty posed for the highly coveted Pirelli calendar.

Nicknamed the "blonde angel", Nadja's career as a supermodel can be seen in the list of advertisements and magazines she has appeared in. Her resume of advertisements reads something like this: Anne Klein, Christian Dior, Dolce & Gabbana, Gianfranco Ferr, Gianni Versace Couture, Giorgio Armani, GV Jeans, Joop!, Krizia, Karl Lagerfeld, Prada, Valentino, Versace Atelier, and Yves Saint Laurent. Nadja continues to model today (despite the fact that she has a child), and has most recently strutted down the catwalks for Chanel, Gianni Versace and Thierry Mugler.
- See more at: http://www.netglimse.com/celebs/pages/nadja_auermann/index.shtml#sthash.yE1QeCL6.dpuf
Nadja Auermann was born March 19, 1971, in West Berlin, Germany. The daughter of bankers, was hoping to pursue a career in architecture, furniture design, or even as the chancellor of Germany, her path took an unexpected twist when she was discovered by a modeling scout while sitting in a Berlin caf in 1989. The scout wanted Nadja to pose for a travel catalogue, and although she was hand-picked out of a crowd, the beginning of her career was a failure. Nadja managed to sign with the Karin modeling agency, and signed a contract with Elite Modeling Management a year later. Nadja landed modeling gigs, but it wasn't until she bleached her hair platinum blonde for a prt--porter collection that her career took off.


Everyone from Harper's Bazaar to Vogue came crawling, as both magazines featured portfolios on the "it" girl in modeling. By 1994, Nadja (now donning a cropped haircut) was the model for runways and magazine photo spreads. This was made clear with a 26-page Neiman Marcus shoot in Harper's Bazaar and consecutive Vogue photo shoots in 1994. One of the select few to appear on both the cover of Harper's Bazaar and Vogue US the same month, Nadja also joined the big name supermodels to appear in George Michael's Too Funky video, sharing the spotlight with Linda Evangelista. That same year, the German beauty posed for the highly coveted Pirelli calendar.

Nicknamed the "blonde angel", Nadja's career as a supermodel can be seen in the list of advertisements and magazines she has appeared in. Her resume of advertisements reads something like this: Anne Klein, Christian Dior, Dolce & Gabbana, Gianfranco Ferr, Gianni Versace Couture, Giorgio Armani, GV Jeans, Joop!, Krizia, Karl Lagerfeld, Prada, Valentino, Versace Atelier, and Yves Saint Laurent. Nadja continues to model today (despite the fact that she has a child), and has most recently strutted down the catwalks for Chanel, Gianni Versace and Thierry Mugler.
- See more at: http://www.netglimse.com/celebs/pages/nadja_auermann/index.shtml#sthash.yE1QeCL6.dpuf
Nadja Auermann was born March 19, 1971, in West Berlin, Germany. The daughter of bankers, was hoping to pursue a career in architecture, furniture design, or even as the chancellor of Germany, her path took an unexpected twist when she was discovered by a modeling scout while sitting in a Berlin caf in 1989. The scout wanted Nadja to pose for a travel catalogue, and although she was hand-picked out of a crowd, the beginning of her career was a failure. Nadja managed to sign with the Karin modeling agency, and signed a contract with Elite Modeling Management a year later. Nadja landed modeling gigs, but it wasn't until she bleached her hair platinum blonde for a prt--porter collection that her career took off. - See more at: http://www.netglimse.com/celebs/pages/nadja_auermann/index.shtml#sthash.yE1QeCL6.dpuf

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