Claudia Schiffer Faces 50, Lensed by Sebastian Kim for ELLE UK May 2020
/Supermodel Claudia Schiffer covers the May 2020 issue of British ELLE. in a fashion story with words ‘Claudia’s Power Decade’. Stylist Aurelia Donaldson dresses Claudia in a mix of personal archives fashion (white ground images) to new luxury looks lensed by Sebastian Kim. Farrah Storr interviews the legendary supermodel at her home in the “less flashy side of Oxfordshire, the side far from the area of the Cotswolds now dominated by spotless Range Rovers and private members’ clubs. “
Schiffer is about to turn 50, leaving her attached to but also far away from Ellen von Unwerth’s legendary 1989 GUESS campaign that unleashed Schiffer as a young Brigitte Bardot. Claudia chats about her personality and incessant drive for perfection coupled with an almost crippling shyness that caused many to see her as arrogant and cold.