Schiffer was born in Rheinberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany, a small town 15 km northwest of Duisburg. She is the daughter of Gudrun and Heinz Schiffer, a lawyer.[6] She has two brothers, Stefan and Andreas, and one sister, Ann Carolin.[5]
Schiffer said that she was popular in high school, but felt socially overshadowed by the other girls in her class.[5] She has revealed that because she was so tall, she became very shy and did not want to be noticed. She was also subjected to jealousy by others as she came from a wealthy family that was well-known locally.[5] Schiffer became fluent in English and French.[5]
She originally wanted to become a lawyer and used to work in her father's law firm.[7] She later dropped these aspirations when, in October 1987 at seventeen, she was spotted in a nightclub in Düsseldorf by Michel Levaton, the boss of Metropolitan Model Agency who signed her up to become a model.[2]
She completed her education and then began to work as a model. She flew out to Paris for a trial photo shoot and soon after she appeared in the cover of French Elle, after being well received in Paris. After several other magazine appearances, she quickly achieved "supermodel" status when she was selected by Karl Lagerfeld to become the new face of Chanel.[2] Schiffer went on to become world-famous, recognizable with her blue eyes, blonde hair and tall figure, standing at 1.80m (approx. 5 ft 11 in.).[8]
In the early 1990s, she starred in highly publicised Guess? jeans adverts in North America which created essential publicity for Schiffer.[2] She was presented on the November 1999 Millennium cover of American Vogue as one of the "Modern Muses".[9] Paul Marciano said in E! Forbes Top 15 Supermodel Beauties Who Made Bank, "Guess name became really much more known around the world because [of] Claudia". Soon after appearing in the campaigns, her name was launched worldwide, appearing on five magazine covers in the United States and seven covers around Europe. Schiffer joined Thomas Zeumer's Metropolitan Models[10] and was contracted to model for Revlon. She also became involved in modelling for several catalogues. Schiffer has done catwalk modelling for Versace, Jil Sander, Dolce & Gabbana, Ralph Lauren and Valentino.[2][5][11] Schiffer as the first model to make the covers of Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, The New York Times and People.[2] She has also appeared many times on covers of Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, Tank Magazine and Time.[5][12]
Schiffer has also been the face of Spanish clothes store, Mango[11] and Accessorize,[13] where she had her ears pierced especially for her Autumn/Winter 2006 Accessorize advertising campaign in 2006.[14] Schiffer still holds a contract with L'Oréal and Ebel watches,[11] and her billboard picture for Kenar has also hung over millions of tourists at Times Square.[5] Since 1990, she has created a swimsuit calendar each year which she stars in and designs herself.[5]
Schiffer later appeared in advertisements for Pepsi, and has danced with a cartoon version of Mickey Mouse in advertisements promoting Fanta for an estimated $2 million.[5] From her appearances in a 1998 Citroën advertisement, she earned a reputed £3 million. Karl Lagerfeld filmed her for a Dom Perignon campaign, some ten years after her first appearances in Chanel adverts.[15]
She is signed to several agencies, including d'management group in Milan and 1/One Management in New York City, Simon Fuller's 19 Entertainment in London for her non modelling interests, and her mother agency 'Model Management' in Hamburg.[16]
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