I hired security guard to stop fans stealing my underwear, says Claudia Schiffer
SUPERMODEL Claudia Schiffer has revealed she used to hire a guard for her underwear — as fans kept stealing them.
She said in her pomp in the ’90s, her smalls were often swiped while she was on the catwalk.
German Claudia, 52, was one of the Big Six supermodels alongside Kate Moss, Christy Turlington, Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford and Linda Evangelista as fashion went mainstream.
She said: “It was a whirlwind, like being a rock star. You couldn’t get to your car unless a path was carved for you.
“People would cut holes into the fashion tents and try to take pictures of us.
“We had security at every fashion show, to the extent I even had someone employed to guard my underwear, which was constantly disappearing when I was out on the runway!”
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Speaking to website Citizen Femme to promote new book Captivate! — which celebrates fashion photography from the 1990s — Claudia paid tribute to the era as a “watershed” decade.
But she said industry has moved on since, adding: “The diversity in age, sexuality, shape and race is an incredibly positive change and allows for a much broader, healthier scope of identification and representation.
“Before the ’90s, a model’s career would rarely last past her 30s.
“With supermodels, careers started to last longer as we became powerful brands in our own right.
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“Now, models are working into their 40s and beyond.
“That really gives a more rounded vision of womanhood as well as a vision of beauty at every age.”