CELEBRATING HER 50 TH  BIRTHDAY IN STYLE, SUPERMODEL CLAUDIA SCHIFFER FROM REIGNING SUPREME ON THE CATWALK TO THE SECRETS OF HER SUCCESSFUL CAREER

‘I’ve had a wonderful first 50 years of my life and I look forward to the next 50’

It’s hard to believe that one of the most famous and successful supermodels of her generation turned 50 last week. With her striking blue eyes, porcelain skin and chiselled cheekbones, Claudia Schiffer looks as luminous now as she did when she made her catwalk debut for Chanel haute couture three decades ago.

“I’ve had a wonderful first 50 years of my life and I look forward to the next 50,” she tells HELLO!, in our special interview to celebrate her birthday.

Still modelling, it is Claudia’s timeless appeal as one of the original supermodels – along with Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista, Christy Turlington and Helena Christensen – for which she is most loved and revered. Reigning supreme on the catwalks throughout the 1990s, their fame and success was unprecedented, their glamour captivating the world’s imagination. It was “an intense and amazing time” and the tight-knit gang have kept in touch ever since.

“There’s a special bond between us all because we lived and breathed such a unique time in fashion,” Claudia says. “We all live in different places around the world but as soon as we see each other, it’s like a school reunion; as if no time has passed. We catch up as if we had never stopped talking, like