THIS GIRL IS ON FIRE

CREATIVE DIRECTION: DANÉ STOJANOVIC 
PHOTOGRAPHY: KRISTIAN SCHULLER
ART DIRECTION & EDIT: PEGGY SCHULLER  
FASHION DIRECTION: ANNA CASTAN
HAIR: JEAN LUC AMARIN 
MAKEUP: GABRIELLE THEURER
SET DESIGN: KATHLEEN ALISCH    
DIGITAL TECHNICIAN: CHEYENNE HOCH
LIGHTING ASSISTANT: ALLAN JAMES LIPP    
FASHION ASSISTANT: CHRISTIAN MARCHESICH 
TALENT: HEIDI KLUM
WORDS: JESSICA BAILEY

Heidi Klum, the original, ever-enduring supermodel, has just returned home from 11 weeks in Europe. Her husband, 34-year-old German glam rocker Tom Kaulitz, was shooting a television show in Berlin, and Klum, accompanying him and unable to sit still, knew renowned photographer Kristian Schuller was also in town. Having seen Schuller apply his abstract lens to contestants on Germany’s Next Top Model – a fashion reality series of which Klum has been a host and executive producer for 18 seasons – the mother-of-four jumped at the chance to work with him.

“To me, [Kristian] is one of the greatest photographers out there,” Klum tells GRAZIA, her German-accented voice girlish and warm. “In my industry, a lot of people compartmentalise. They see you in a certain way. A lot of the time, I come to a set and the crew will say, ‘She needs bangs, or the hair needs to be like this so that she’s recognisable.’ And it’s so boring! I always look like that.

“As a woman, you love when you’re really being looked at – rediscovered, changed – and I love that about Kristian,” she continues. “He was like, ‘I want you to look like you but a different side of you’. I said, ‘Go ahead.’”

READ GRAZIA’s FULL INTERVIEW WITH HEIDI KLUM HERE.

“THIS GIRL IS ON FIRE” IS PUBLISHED IN THE 15TH EDITION OF GRAZIA INTERNATIONAL. ORDER YOUR COPY HERE.