2023-10-11 12:32:07
With a spatula
Similar, but different: Claudia Schiffer and Valeria Mazza, in 2011, when the disagreements were already part of the past (Getty Images)
It was an open secret about the stark competition between a model who seemed to wear the crown awarded by the best designers and big brands, and another who had just emerged. Their origins were not related: one was from Germany and the other from Argentina. But beauty does. And the physical resemblance too. For this reason, Claudia Schiffer – the owner of that scepter – was not amused by the appearance of Valeria Mazza – whom many believed to see as a candidate for the throne. And… “He didn’t make it easy for me,” she recognized only now – almost three decades later – the Rosario woman raised in Paraná, who managed to triumph on the catwalks of Europe back in the 90s.
By infobae.com
Although “Claudia was already Claudia,” as Mazza puts it, Schiffer perceived a direct rival in that rookie. And a little bit prey to envy and a little bit to her jealousy, she placed stones on her path to the modeling elite. “There were always tensions between us, the catwalks can be a competitive place,” Valeria acknowledged in one of the episodes of A golden dream, his documentary on Paramount+ released on Sunday, October 8. And so, he gave public voice to an old secret that he had little of private.
As I said: the 90s belonged to the supermodels. Above the actresses and singers, they were the ultimate celebrities. They transcended fashion, jumping from catwalks to television screens and film sets. They grabbed the attention of the press. They set trends, imposed fashions. They starred in the most talked about romances. Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell, Helena Christensen, Kate Moss, Linda Evangelista, Tyra Banks and Elle Macpherson. And above all, the great star: Claudia Schiffer, the most famous of the top models.
Born on August 25, 1970 in Rheinberg, Germany, she entered the fashion world at the age of 17. Before, Claudio had felt like a condemnation to those 180 centimeters of height that would captivate the most famous catwalks. They made her complex during her school years. Her classmates made fun of her for that characteristic that would distinguish her in fashion: she suffered bullying for the mere fact of being taller than most men.
At the same time, because he came from a financially well-off family, he also experienced questions. Everything changed in high school, already in her teens: that style that would mark her when she was older, she started in her last periods at school. And at one point the situation was reversed. Those hurtful laughter mutated into flattery that, in any case, young Claudia never sought. She didn’t care about that turn to popularity and recognition. “I never felt the need to be in the spotlight. I was never interested in looking for that when I was a girl, nor when I grew up,” she once said, during the presentation of a campaign for the Guess clothing brand, whose advertisements established her fame.
Schiffer was not thinking about dedicating herself to modeling when agent Michel Levaton discovered her in a pub in Düsseldorf and recommended that she apply to his agency. That 17-year-old girl accepted her advice and the next day she went to the offices, with a precarious book under her arm. “When I started, I didn’t go to the agency and say, ‘I want to be a model.’ I never saw it as: ‘I want to be famous.’ I approached it more like, ‘I want to be good and get to the top.'”
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