Supermodel Claudia Schiffer Bio

Host: Having appeared on more than 500 magazines covers, German
super model Claudia Schiffer is one of the most recognizable faces
into the world of modeling and fashion.

Schiffer left school at age 17 after a talent scout from modeling
agency spotted her in a Dusseldorf disco. Six months later, she was
on the cover of French L Magazine. Later she was chosen as the
face of Guess a role which catapulted her into the super model
league.

After appearing in on a few more magazine covers, Schiffer’s
super model status was cemented after come Karl Lagerfeld
selected her as the new face of Chanel. This saw the beginning of a
long collaboration between the designer and to his muse.

With her tall, slender figure, blond hair, blue eyes and resemblance
to Brigitte Bardot, Schiffer went on to become one of the most
famous super models the world has seen along side Australian
Ellen Burton and Naomi Campbell.

The three super models have walked the cat walk together on
numerous occasions modeling figure hugging outfits for designers
such as Valentino. They also became the first fashion super models
to open a café chain together.

The Fashion Café opened in New York in 1995 and what was one
of the most heavily promoted events at the New York fashion
week. More cafés opened up around the world in the years to
follow.

As her modeling career thrived with more magazine and catalog
appearances and cat walk shows with some of the biggest names in
the industry, Shiffer have become big business.

Schiffer: I'm very lucky because I'm a model and I have worked in a fashion
industry for a really long time. I know all the designers and it’s
really easy for me just to call them up and say, “Can you please
send over what you got?” And the thing is, they know my sizes.
They know exactly what looks good on me, what doesn’t and what
I like.

Host: Her engagement to illusionist David Copperfield heightened media
interest and what was one of the world’s most famous showbiz
couples.

Copperfield who was said to be the one of the highest paid
entertainers in the US presented Schiffer with a four and a half
million dollar engagement ring.

The mid 90’s also saw her become one in a series of super models
to launch a fitness video. Her double video release entitled
“Claudia Schiffer Perfectly Fit” was expected to sell 300,000
copies in Britain alone.

Fashion modeling is one of the few businesses well women earned
more than men. And for Schiffer, that’s an understatement as her
name is as big as the fashion houses she has represented.

She was even lured away from a holiday for a four minute
appearance at the Valentino Fashion Gallery in Rome earning a
reported $35,000 in the process.

At the young age of 24, Schiffer had become the world’s highest
paid super model, calendar girl and café owner and also but an
author with the launch of her first book “Claudia Schiffer
Memories” a book dominated by photographs of the super model.

Throughout her career, she has attained contracts with some of the
world’s biggest brands such as Revlon, Fanta and Pepsi appearing
in advertising campaigns to attract the younger audience.

She even modeled Pret-A-Porter design in late 1995 in a fashion
show held in Moscow’s Radisson Slavyanskaya Hotel in a bid to
infuse the election campaign with international glamour.

In 2007, Karl Lagerfeld played host to 600 of the fashion world’s
closest friends, colleagues and patrons at a private mansion in Paris
during the hook of Fashion Week for the launch of its [Foreign
Language] 1993 campaign which features his long time muse
Claudia Schiffer.

Shciffer who first worked with Lagerfeld for Chanel in 1990 was
thrilled to be reunited with a fashion designer, photographer and
fellow German native who shot in black and white and such for in
various provocative situations. The photos of Schiffer were
received with great enthusiasm.

Today, she is still on the lips of all the high profiled designers who
swamp her with all their latest couture outfits for red carpet events.
And even though she is now a bit older that the average model, she
still seen at the fashion events whether it’s parading down the cat
walk or side along or attending as a guest.

Claudia Schiffer will forever be a super model icon.