Tacked on the wall of Anna Ewers’s childhood bed room is an outdated black-and-white Calvin Klein advert that includes Kate Moss in a pair of light denims and little else. Ewers says she was “in all probability round 12” when she discovered the , flipping by means of considered one of her father’s music magazines from 1993.
The date on the quilt was what initially caught Ewers’s eye—she was born that very same 12 months in Freiburg, Germany, a university city on the sting of the Black Forest mountains, not removed from the French/Swiss border. “It was a really completely different time, however a tremendous time for the business,” says the now-29-year-old mannequin, who bears greater than a passing resemblance to a different vogue icon of that period (and a fellow German), Claudia Schiffer.
A decade after swiping the advert from her dad’s workplace, Ewers discovered herself posing alongside Moss in a 2015 David Yurman marketing campaign. “I used to be nervous to fulfill her, however she was very candy and really, very cool,” Ewers says. A number of months later, Fashions.com named Ewers Mannequin of the 12 months.
Ewers’s rise has been swift from the beginning of her profession, when a pal she met as an change scholar in Colombia satisfied her to provide modeling a shot. “In Colombia, there aren’t loads of tall, blonde folks, so I used to be very apparent,” Ewers says. She figured as soon as she returned to Germany, that may be the tip of it, however one other pal satisfied her to fulfill with the small company in her hometown that represents her to at the present time.
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Not lengthy after, Alexander Wang noticed her picture on a weblog and invited her to stroll in his first Balenciaga present in Paris. And at the moment, she helps forge a supermodel renaissance alongside an elite group of vogue mononyms (Gigi, Kaia, Adut, et al.), however in contrast to lots of her contemporaries, who rose to fame through Instagram, Ewers stays an enigma. “That’s one factor that makes me want [we were back] within the ’90s, as a result of there was no social media,” Ewers says with fun. “I see my job as a job, and my non-public life as my non-public life, and I don’t know why I must share my on a regular basis life with all people else. I don’t need to see {that a} mannequin drinks espresso within the morning. It’s not very mysterious.”
That is likely to be true, nevertheless it’s additionally a little bit of a disgrace, contemplating that Ewers’s on a regular basis life—whether or not she’s climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, mountaineering from Tuscany to Rome to allay quarantine boredom, or wandering by means of Marrakech (see: this vogue shoot)—is so rattling photogenic. Once we talked, she was in New York, however wanting ahead to a visit to Tuscany to go to her boyfriend: “We educated our canine to be a truffle canine and we simply acquired our license, so I’m very excited to search out truffles!”
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Hair by David Harborow at Streeters; make-up by Tom Pecheux for Yves Saint Laurent Beauté; mannequin: Anna Ewers at Elite Mannequin; produced by Marie Courtin at 1001 Prods; photographed on location at El Fenn, Marrakech.
This text seems within the March 2022 difficulty of ELLE.
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