The spirit of a true adventurer beats within Lauren Hutton. 
From seeking refuge in the Himalayas’ highest peaks, where she shared her first cigar with the brightly clad 
women of the mountain range, to nourishing her nomad heart in the African bush to leaping in a perfectly lit studio for Richard Avedon for Vogue, this iconic wanderer is no the stranger to being a nomad.
 
Lauren’s natural and characteristically imperfect down-to-earth style merges southern tomboy ease with graceful, classic American beauty. Lauren’s journeys are inspired. And intense. Her trademark gap-tooth smile and mischievous, sexy, intelligent eyes sparkle with fiery independence and worldly verve.
Lauren Hutton is an icon of chic.


“Nature's main job over and over and over is to make a masterpiece.”
ESQUIRE, OCTOBER 2004
 
“I wanted to be an artist, and I knew that in order to be an artist, I had to see the world. 
So I heard about these tramp steamers where you pay $165 for a ticket, and go to Africa. 
I didn’t know at that point that Tangiers was North Africa! I very naively thought that I’d dock,
catch a bus out to the bush and see lions and tigers and bears. But that’s where the love affair with the continent started, and it never ended.”
VENICE MAGAZINE, NOVEMBER 2007
 
“I saw all this wonder of real style around the world. Beautiful,
unbelievable women everywhere, and I knew that what was prescribed, what we knew
about fashion, what we had been told was beautiful wasn't the only thing there was."
SEATTLE TIMES, MARCH 2008
 
“I found that by going away for two months to someplace where no one knew who I was-and, in fact, a place where if anything went wrong, I couldn't whip out a smile or a checkbook or tell them my name to fix it-I had to actually be human and figure things out for myself. I think that occasionally running away and crashing where people can't find you is important.”
INTERVIEW MAGAZINE, FEBRUARY 2009
 
“I’m an emu. I’m too much of a rare bird.  My main career is living with tribes and seeing the world. My second career was modeling. My third career was acting.”
THE HOUSTON CHRONICLE, APRIL 2010
 
"I became a model to see the world, to make enough money to travel and experience other cultures. I knew I had to get to New York to get to Africa."
HARPER'S BAZAAR, JANUARY 2011
 
“The societies that I looked up to, the elders weren’t just there for laughs.
Some of them were really spectacular people, and I’d like to be a useful elder, a real elder…
I just kept looking at myself, and I braved the mirror. I started putting on makeup.
And because I was really looking at myself, you don’t put it on automatically.
You put it on just exactly where you need it, and little by little you accept. You accept.
And you see the interesting stuff about it. And it just makes you interested in the
whole wonder of the ride we’re on, this trip around the block that is life.”
ENERGY TIMES, JANUARY 2012
 

-Gina Dellagioia
 

 

September 2012