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Biography |
Nadja Auermann was born March 19, 1971, in West Berlin,
Germany. The daughter of bankers, Nadja didn't initially
hope for the glamorous life of a model that she leads today.
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 café 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 prêt-à-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 Ferré, Gianni Versace Couture, Giorgio
Armani, GV Jeans, Joop!, Krizia, Karl Lagerfeld, Prada,
Valentino, Versace Atelier, and Yves Saint Laurent.
And the list of Magazine covers is no shorter: Elle (German,
Japan, Quebec, UK, US), Esquire, Vogue (Italy, France, UK,
US), Harper's Bazaar, American Photo, and Scene (UK), to
name just a few.
The subject of Ellen Von Unwerth's article in Vogue,
entitled "She's An Enigma", Nadja Auermann 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. |
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