Claudia Schiffer

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16 hours ago, StefanoP57 said:

 

While I hate this one. Claudia smoking? (Almost) never smiling? Rubber boots in Fontana di Trevi?  Come on....

 

 

I agree to the fact that she is smoking and this is not 'her' nor her values,

but it is a remake of Anita Ekberg and she is smoking sometimes.

 

The first photos are "backstage", the guy on the phone is trying to solve an issue, you feel the pressure, reason while she is not smiling,

I like this kind of 'documentary' shots.

 

I don't understand the rubbert boots ??

 

Can you just dream of these kind of shoot today ?

The security cordon would be broken in a second ! at least in France 😞

 

[StefanoP57]

Hello, I think that Claudia was incredibly beautiful these days but the staging was awful and the pictures are a waste of her beauty, that's why, I think, she almost never smiles. She famously wore rubber boots during the walk in the Fontana di Trevi... something that Anita Ekberg obviously didn't do.

 

My opinion is that any other photographer would have done better as Claudia was so beautiful.... and Rome, stunning.

 

I don't know what they could do nowadays, I'm not much interested in today's anorexic, angry-looking, never smiling models. Claudia was almost always flashing a captivating smile, that's why I adore her and why I despise this photo set. I'm sure that others will love it, of course. Cheers to you all!

S

[radolgc]

This is one of her best campaigns in my opinion. The only thing i do not like is all the people around her, which made it look like the beauty and the beasts...I guess it was impossible to shoot on the streets and have no monsters around...lol...i would have shot the campaign differently, too. It seems what they did was intentional. After all her role was a Hollywood Diva on a walk among fans and it kinda worked. Love all the collages in the ads. Overall one of my favorite campaigns.

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@StefanoP57

AhAh I didn't know for the rubber boots, so sexy 🤣

 

I understand your point of view concerning this campaign but i have another one 🙂

 

and I am totally in tune with you concerning "angry-looking, never smiling models", I would add that the fashion is often uggly today.

 

 

 

Completely different idea :

i have tried to reproduced this attitude with my 13yo daughter, blond / blue eyes.

it seems easy, nothing special, a head between 2 hands...

We did not succeed, it was always artificial, not aesthetic.

 

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Grazia France #261 September 26, 2014
Photographer: Adam Whitehead
Fashion Editor: Birgit Schlotterbeck
Hair: Raphael Salley
Makeup: Kirstin Piggott
Manicure: Toni Jade
Model: Claudia Schiffer

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Claudia Schiffer with Elton John in Frankfurt, Germany

5/1993

Ph: Jochen Günther

 

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I hope gets a Versace campaign from this! After shamefully not being included in the 90s Supers documentary. Seems Donatella was not into Claudia being un-included. 👏

[radolgc]

Shamefully? By the same logic also Yasmeen, Helena, Karen, Tatjana and a few more were shamefully not included...the documentary was perfect the way it is. 

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11 hours ago, radolgc said:

Shamefully? By the same logic also Yasmeen, Helena, Karen, Tatjana and a few more were shamefully not included...the documentary was perfect the way it is. 

 

Actually, this is not a fair comparison. Of course, Yasmeen, Helena, Karen, Carla, and others were some of the greatest models of the 90's, but you really can't compare these girls to the group that was known as "The Big Five". Cindy, Claudia, Linda, Naomi, and Christy. These girls were in a class of their own. So the story of the 90s Supermodels is simply incomplete without Claudia Schiffer. You can spin it all you want but the truth remains the same. For example, you can Google Claudia's cover for Rolling Stone Magazine, back in May 1990, a magazine that had a strict policy of never featuring a model on its cover, but they've made an exception for Claudia. The magazine later explained their decision by saying: "There are models, There are Supermodels, and then there's Claudia Schiffer." She was the first to appear on this cover and also on Vanity Fair, magazines that weren't about Fashion. She appeared on more than 1,000 magazine covers and holds the record for the model with the most magazine covers, listed in the Guinness Book of Records. Plus, She was Lagerfeld's muse for six consecutive years, an accomplishment that no other model had in fashion history, and was so famous internationally that even Diana, Princess of Wales, once said jokingly: "Claudia is the most photographed blonde after me."

 

You see, originally, the term "The original five" was used to describe Tatjana, Cindy, Naomi, Christy and Linda, due to their joint Vogue cover by Peter Lindberg in January 1990. But that same year, in May 1990, Tatjana was replaced by Claudia Schiffer, and two years later in 1992, Kate Moss joined the group and they became known as "The Big Six". A simple research will reveal the same facts to you as well. Anna Wintour herself confirmed this in an interview for UK ELLE in 2011

 

That's why this documentary is stirring up a lot of unintentional controversy. Judging from the materials that I have reviewed, and from speaking to fashion insiders, there is a sense that this documentary is falsely portraying these four girls as if they were the only supermodels who dominated the 90s and who reshaped that instrumental decade in fashion history. That's only partially true. The PR machine surrounding this documentary is slowly but confidently creating a very narrow narrative as if the term 'Top Five' never existed. I have included some articles supporting this issue... read and see for yourself. There are millions more historical articles like these... from Vogue, Elle, etc

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I totally agree with you, i am a big fan of Claudia, too and she must have been included, too. Maybe she was even asked to be there, but maybe she did not have the time and ability to participate. We all know who all big models were and Claudia is definitely one of the top 10 ever. I do not like comparisons or lists, charts and other silly competitions. They simply made a documentary about 4 of the big top models. I think there is also a political reason behind choosing them only...they come from USA and Canada and the industry always favored models from these countries. That's obvious. And Gisele also made the cover of Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair...more than once.

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16 minutes ago, radolgc said:

I totally agree with you, i am a big fan of Claudia, too and she must have been included, too. Maybe she was even asked to be there, but maybe she did not have the time and ability to participate. We all know who all big models were and Claudia is definitely one of the top 10 ever. I do not like comparisons or lists, charts and other silly competitions. They simply made a documentary about 4 of the big top models. I think there is also a political reason behind choosing them only...they come from USA and Canada and the industry always favored models from these countries. That's obvious. And Gisele also made the cover of Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair...more than once.

 

That's Ture, Gisele also made the cover of Rolling Stone, but I was referring to the model (Claudia) who was the very first to break this record in May 1990. She essentially opened the doors for other models to do the same. I agree with you - and I also don't like charts and lists, but we live in a world where you can't even listen to a song without some magazine ranking it on some hit list. And the facts were and still are today, that the term "The Big Five" does exist and is used to describe these five girls only. We can hate it, (and I do) but unfortunately, it's still a fact that we have to deal with. Perhaps like you said, it was political. I appreciate our discussion.