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Nadja Auermann

 

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Born   March 19, 1971 in West-Berlin, Germany

Nationality   German
Height   5'10 ½ / 179 cm
Bust   36 / 91
Waist   24 ½ / 62
Hips   35 ½ / 90
Shoes   8 / 39
Dress   8
Hair   Blonde plain
Eyes   blue

 


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Important dates

11.1990: She signs with her first agency, Karins. But it´s not a success.

03.1991: Nadja changes to Elite agency.

 

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03.1991: Nadja appears in a Benetton campaign and her portrait is also taken as part of a beauty story for French Vogue by Paolo Roversi.

04.1991: The Photographer Ellen Von Unwerth becomes aware of Nadja, and books her for upcoming work.

10.1991: The breakthrough editorial "She is an enigma" appears in the UK Vogue (Ellen Von Unwerth).

 

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1993: Nadja changes her nature-haircolor to platinum blonde.

 

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09.1994: She was the first model to be on the US Vogue and US Harper´s Bazaar at the same time. A unique event in the fashion branch todate.

 

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1994: Julien d`Ys cuts Nadja´s long hair. It´ll become her biggest break.

 

She was also well known for her very, very long legs

 

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To me Nadja was one of the most versatile model (among others) in the 90's.

She was amazingly beautiful and graceful and so elegant.

She worked with all the greatest photgraphers

was on the covers of every fashion magazines

And she appeared in every big fashion campaigns

 

 

 

Contribution 1: Nadja 175 pictures / complete editorials from 1991 to 1992

Dates and title of the magazines are the name of the file

 

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source: Nadja-Auermann.com mostly

credit to scanners whoever you are

 

 



 

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I would have bet my eyebrows that video was from the 80s :blink: . I'm curious to learn more about 90s modeling although I'm only interested in pics and not who's currently strung out in the crack house necessarily.

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:woot: Thank you for the reference my dear Kiki, I am very grateful.  And how nice this is going to be! :woot:

 

If I may ask, how big is your Cache, how wide is your coverage in terms of 1990s models, and how many galleries should we expect?  And of course, I remember that you were thinking of fully organizing your galleries model by model.

 

My favorite 1990s supermodel is Eva Herzigova but I am sure that it will change as I learn more from you.  

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Well you're welcome my dear Cult but I had to *"Reddite quae sunt Caesaris, Caesari, et quae sunt Dei, Deo." as the saying goes :flower:

As you already know, my external hard drive crashed and I've lost almost all my models collections. It was a 500GB hard drive filled with organized files and about 10 000 pics (+ videos) and now I feel like it's a bit useless to collect so many pictures when it will be lost one day even if you do 2 or 3 back ups. I have magazines from the 80's in my closet that look like brand new but i can't manage to keep pixels saved and that bother me a lot!

 

Anyway! I am trying to rebuilt everything I lost and  help you and other members that are interested to get to know amazing women that ruled the fashion world not so long ago =)

 

What do you thing of Nadja?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's.

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I didn't know you liked Eva, though I assumed she was a 2000s model. Does anyone know what the average starting age for 90s models was? It seems a lot of girls currently start as early as 13 :ninja: whereas I hear stories of 90s models saying they were spotted in the mall at 19 or in college even. 
 

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Eva is definitely a 90's model since she started her career in 1989. Most of the famous and less famous 90's models started their career back in the 80's (Cindy Crawford 1984 born in 66 and she was16 when she was  the runner-up at the Elite Look of the Year contest in 1983 - Christy Turlington born in 69  she started to model when she was 14 & became a full time model at 18 - Karen Mulder started in1986 and she was 16 & reached the second place at the Elite look of the year model contest in 1986 -Laetitia started to model at 15 in 1993 and was spotted at the beach... top less! ) Back in 80's/90's girls were very young when they started to model, something like 14. Today it's more like 16 because I think people and parents are more aware of the "danger" it is for a young girl to work in the fashion business.

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Miss Kiki,   :clap:

 

I know how you feel!! My harddrive crashed and I did lose a few thousand photos that could have been hosted in my thread.  But then I started to save new ones over time, and what you see hosted now are recent saves. 

 

How many models do you plan on covering and what are their names?  Who are you going to cover next?

 

Well you're welcome my dear Cult but I had to *"Reddite quae sunt Caesaris, Caesari, et quae sunt Dei, Deo." as the saying goes :flower:

As you already know, my external hard drive crashed and I've lost almost all my models collections. It was a 500GB hard drive filled with organized files and about 10 000 pics (+ videos) and now I feel like it's a bit useless to collect so many pictures when it will be lost one day even if you do 2 or 3 back ups. I have magazines from the 80's in my closet that look like brand new but i can't manage to keep pixels saved and that bother me a lot!

 

Anyway! I am trying to rebuilt everything I lost and  help you and other members that are interested to get to know amazing women that ruled the fashion world not so long ago =)

 

What do you thing of Nadja?

 

Yes, I am so very curious about that.  As for Nadja, I can't say that I find her incredibly beautiful.  This is just personal; I like women who look friendly and have large eyes.   Then there's something...blank about her face, like an empty palette.  This might be why she is good model; as I don't have any particular female stereotype or impression when I see her.  How do you feel about that?  

 

Also, what stands out in her gallery is how she manages to look different in every picture.  I see a different person in most of these photographs.  So I can't really grasp if it's she who did this or photographers  that she worked with back then were just much more creative and skilled.  The photography in these photos are done well and done by people that are artists rather than the technicians that rose to prominence today.

 

Today it's more like 16 because I think people and parents are more aware of the "danger" it is for a young girl to work in the fashion business.

 

 

 

From what I've seen, it looks to me that these models spend a lot of time getting helped by their agencies these days; they rent office space and everything.  They probably compete for the same jobs in a closed network that only the elite agencies can provide.  I'm apt to believe that it's more institutionalized now than in say, the 1950s.  Procurement of labor has gone more 'corporate' and there seems to be less evidence of the whole 'model + muse' phenomenon. Just as you said. 

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As you already know, my external hard drive crashed and I've lost almost all my models collections. It was a 500GB hard drive filled with organized files and about 10 000 pics (+ videos) and now I feel like it's a bit useless to collect so many pictures when it will be lost one day even if you do 2 or 3 back ups. I have magazines from the 80's in my closet that look like brand new but i can't manage to keep pixels saved and that bother me a lot!

 

 

that's very bad! it has happened to me before and i know how much it sucks!

im a huge late 80s/90s fan. i practically love each and every model, just because they were all so unique, so interesting, so charismatic, that my favorites are so many! helena, eva, cindy, christy, nadja, karen, naomi, linda, the list goes on!

 

i enjoy browsing through archives and pics, so if you've got a place where you have posted such pics, let me know, id love to look at it, thanks!

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