SUPERMODELS Claudia Schiffer and Helena Christensen may be long past their 90s heyday, but they still have the flawless good looks that made them famous.
It has been 30 years since they ruled the runways and stared in some of the most high profile fashion campaigns, but Claudia, 53, and Helena, 55-two of the most recognisable models- have hardly aged a day.
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German-born model Claudia posted a before and after image of herself with her old friend Helena, after they caught up over dinner in New York, to reminisce about their early days on the modelling circuit.
She said: “I met Helena for the first time in the early 90s. We are so different yet strangely similar. Helen made me feel very calm and grounded while we were both in the middle of fashion madness. Last night at dinner in downtown New York, it felt like no time has passed.”
Married to hotshot film director Matthew Vaughn, 52, Claudia has an estimated fortune of around £45 million after modelling for Chanel Versace and Yves Saint Laurent. She also has three grown up children, Caspar, 21 Clementine, 19 and Cosima, 14.
Meanwhile Helena has a son, Mingus, 24 and is now a successful photographer, with an occasional sideline in modelling.
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She owns a townhouse in her native Copenhagen and an apartment in New York.
Although Claudia lives with her family in an Elizabethan manorhouse in Suffolk, she revealed that she’d love to live in New York where her old chum Helena is based.
She said: “I wish I lived in New York to see her more often. We compared memories of working together- so many fashion campaigns and shows from Chanel to Versace. But also so many dinners with my mother and her parents.”
Both women have lost parents in the last few years. Claudia said goodbye to her mother Gudrun who was with her for much of her meteoric rise from being spotted as a teenager in a Dusseldorf nightclub, to being the face of Chanel.
Indeed Danish-born Helena, whose parents also travelled the journey with their daughter, from winning Miss Universe Denmark in 1986 to starting her career in Paris aged 17, lost her father, Fleming last year.
She has said: “My parents always came to Paris for the shows. All the girls know them. My parents took care of a lot of them in a parental way. We had so much fun. They came partying with us. They were legendary at the shows my parents.”
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