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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 pret-a-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.Nadja
Auermann Personal videos and photos - Click here!
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