Hold up your head, smile and always think of your charisma! These instructions by Astrid Bittner-Utsch are polite but firm. As a former model she knows the important facts in this business. Whether at Hermès in Paris, at Missoni in Milano or for Couturiers in New York, her international experience, which has lasted for over 20 years, turned her into one of the most renowned instructors in Germany. After her active career she settled down at the “Hofgut Lindenthal” in Wiesbaden and founded the “Modelcollege Astrid”. There, she passes on her experience to up-and-coming models, but also to people from industry and commerce as well as politics. The youngest model is Jessica Machnik who took the sixth place at the Miss-World-Contest in China, after her training with Astrid Bittner-Utsch. Bittner-Utsch’s experience combined with the valuable and important contacts to this business facilitate a serious and respectable start into the hard and tough world of modeling or enable a stylish appearance for people in the public eye.
