Anja Winkelmann

About Anja Winkelmann

Anja (Lea) Winkelmann is a Paris-based European fashion model, yoga teacher, content creator/influencer, and more recently a ceramics/artist.

Winkelmann began modeling young. She landed her first major contracts at age 17 in Spain with Mango. A modeling contest win is frequently cited as the moment her career accelerated "overnight."She has worked commercially and editorially, appeared in street-style coverage (e.g., Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week), and collaborated with brands including Fendi, Scotch & Soda (styling content), Repetto (activewear), Aigle, and others. Agencies associated with her over time include METRO Models (Zurich), New Wave Management (Paris), earlier V Management /VMGNT, and Q Management (New York listings).

She is also a certified/practicing yoga teacher and posts yoga, lifestyle, fashion, and wellness content. She has described discovering yoga as a significant personal revelation after living and working in various places. She has studied or shown interest in holistic health.

Her personal site (anjawinkelmann.com) and recent Instagram activity emphasize art, particularly ceramics/pottery, under themes of "matter & consciousness," form, memory, the body as channel, and returning to the earth.Captions reference intuitive making, clay that "remembers," and her farm roots. She appears to be developing this creative practice alongside modeling and teaching yoga.

Winkelmann has shared images with a partner; she keeps a relatively private personal profile beyond professional and creative output.