Thank you for this great contribution by Nadja Walluschnig for ORF Südtirol during my participation in the Fashion For Future Festival in Bolzano. It's about Heidi Klum and why I think her work is important, what solutions I see for the fashion industry and what I need to feel glamorous.
Editor and presenter Elisabeth Eidenberger, OÖN, on the interview:
💡What do charisma, sustainability and Germany's Next Topmodel have in common?
👉🏼Diese Woman!🤗
Martina Gleissenebner-Teskey not only came third in the TV show about Heidi Klum as a "50 plus" model, she has often reinvented herself in her life and is now committed to sustainable fashion. In short: she really has a lot to tell! 🥰
What you can expect in the new episode of "Club der Cleveren":
😎 Courage to change: Martina emphasized the importance of always trying something new and being courageous. She inspires us to initiate change when our current life no longer meets our expectations.
👯♀️👠 GNTM: What were Martina's motivations for taking part in GNTM, despite having an established, serious career? She talks about the experience of taking part in the show with her daughter Lou-Anne and takes a look behind the scenes with us.
🤩 Charisma as an inner gift: Everyone has charisma within them. It's about recognizing and developing this unique gift that lies within each of us and how we can use it.
👚👗💚Sustainability: Martina is passionate about sustainable fashion. She encourages us all to rethink our consumption and make more responsible choices that protect the environment.
Source: https://www.krone.at/3754585
Martina Gleissenebner-Teskey became famous on Germany's Next Topmodel. The power woman can also be seen in the new "Dancer against Cancer" calendar. During the shoot for this, we spoke to her about the modeling industry and the statement she made with her march from Klosterneuburg to Paris. It was recently announced that another Walk4Future march is to follow this year!
”"But we have to look at this system, which is neither fair nor forward-looking."
Martina Gleissenebner-Teskeyon the subject of capitalism
In the Interview with the South Tyrolean fashion blogger Susanne Barta are you very critical of capitalism, do you want to abolish it?
I have been working intensively on this question for several years (laughs). We have created an absolutely efficient system that promotes motivation, but which is now gradually becoming absurd. Money, the central value in capitalism, no longer has the value it should represent. Exchanges with money used to make sense because the exchange of goods for goods is less efficient. But if we now consider which goods and services are really of value, they are no longer properly represented by money.
Then this is your episode!
In this episode, we introduce you to some of these questions that will help you - quite simply - find ways out of stalemates and problems or finally discover what really makes you happy.
My thanks go to Heike Gäbel for providing you with these questions. Heike is a colleague who has only recently found her calling as a model and who fascinated me from the first moment we met with her positive - colorful - manner. She is a full-time style consultant and coach and works especially with questions that help to untie the Gordian knot of many a situation. You can also listen to this episode wherever podcasts are available.
More about Heike: https://www.heikegaebel.de/
walk4future is entering its 2nd round and this time it's all about actually demonstrating the power of small steps.
EVERYONE & EVERYONE can take part - no matter where they are.
All details and registration here: https://walk4future.com/walk-save-challenge/
For decades, I have worked with great dedication and commitment in training and coaching to support people in their self-development - but what kind of leverage was it to appear on a show like this, to reach so many people and to inspire them to take action. I have noticed that many sustainable fashion brands communicate in far too elitist a way and are far too exclusive. The masses are not bad or stupid, but most of them prefer lightness or are afraid of damaging themselves and their own lifestyle by making big changes. I am aware of this, which is why my project is simply an offer to take the next possible step. Many small steps taken by many people take us a long way. That's what I want to show.
An absolutely unembellished interview about my commitment and what I hope to achieve with it. It's not much, but if you want to shape your own life in a meaningful way, it's enough to take a small step in the right direction.
You can read the whole interview here: https://franzmagazine.com/2025/04/07/nur-gut-auszusehen-war-mir-immer-zu-wenig
Denise Boomkens, Petra van Bremen, Antje Maranca, Tooske Ragas, British Vogue beauty boss Jess and Martina Gleissenebner-Teskey at an Estée Lauder event in Paris
Martina Gleissenebner-Teskey with Paulina Porizkova, Baronne, Paris
At the invitation of Estée Lauder Germany, I kicked off April with a wonderful event in Paris. To mark the return of supermodel Paulina Porizkova as the face of the brand and her upcoming 60th birthday, there was a sumptuous gala dinner, followed the next day by an inspiring exchange with the birthday girl and Aerin Lauder.
The participants came from all over Europe - businesswomen and the most successful best ager models that many of us know from advertising and magazines.
A very empowering experience and, for me, a conscious decision for luxury that is not an everyday occurrence.
© 2025 Martina Gleissenebner-Teskey.
