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Allure Russia December 2014: Lindsey Wixson By Mario Testino

Hair: Jimmy Paul
Make-up: James Kaliardos
Manicure: Gina Viviano
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VOGUE AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2014
PHOTOGRAPHER: WILL DAVIDSON
MODEL: LINDSEY WIXSON
STYLING: CHRISTINE CENTENERA
HAIR: PANOS PAPANDRIANOS
MAKE UP: PEP GAY
NAILS: CHARLENE COCQARD



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Elle Japan December 2014: Lindsey Wixson By Karl Lagerfeld

Hair: Emmanuel Sammartino
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The Edit by Net-A-Porter
December 24, 2014

The Golden Girl
Model Lindsey Wixson
Photographer Santiago & Mauricio
Styling Maya Zepinic


At 12 years old, LINDSEY WIXSON knew she was destined for the catwalk. Now one of the most recognizable models in the industry, she tells EVE CLAXTON why the school bullies were never going to stand in her way.

Lindsey Wixson, the softly spoken model known for her unmistakable gap-toothed smile, is reminiscing about the past five years she’s spent crisscrossing the world. “Travel is the best thing,” she says wistfully in a café on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. “To find myself through losing myself, and exploring new cities… It’s a very exciting time.”

In person, dressed simply in a vintage cashmere sweater and purple cords, with a hand-knitted scarf around her neck, Wixson’s famous features are much less exaggerated than in her many campaign pictures, which include Alexander McQueen, Prada, H&M, Mulberry and Chanel. Between bites of her lunch, the 20-year-old explains her grounded attitude to her work. “It’s about being professional and collaborating,” she explains. “[It’s] a career.”

That career was one Wixson identified and pursued from an early age. When she was 12 years old, she stumbled across an old issue of Reader’s Digest magazine at home in Wichita, Kansas. “There was this article about taking opportunities,” she remembers, “and not missing the glimmer of a dream. It was about picturing where you want to go and having it click in your mind. I remember thinking, ‘If I’m passionate about something, what’s stopping me?’”

Even at that young age, Wixson was already striking: 5ft 7in with pillowy lips and doll-like blue eyes. People told her she looked like a model, so she became a student of the profession. “I was a fashion nerd,” she laughs. “I was always reading about models, trying to find out where they came from, who discovered them, which casting director or designer put them on exclusives. I was learning the steps that would gradually build into the career that I wanted.”

It was quite the departure from her home environment – her father installed satellite dishes; her mother was a school bus driver. But Wixson was always aspirational. “My parents were just getting by,” she explains. “I always wanted to help them. Even when I was seven, my teachers told me, ‘You have a good work ethic.’”

Part of the challenge for Wixson was that Wichita was not exactly a fashion hub. “There are less than 400,000 people in my hometown,” she says. “It’s definitely not New York or LA.” What’s more, she was an awkward and shy child, who was teased by her schoolmates. What was to become her beauty trademark – the prominent gap in her front teeth – was a burden in her formative years: the bullies called it her “parking lot”.

But by 14, Wixson had her game plan. "I knew which agency [in Los Angeles] I wanted to be signed with, because they developed Lily Donaldson and Liu Wen,” she says. Her mother held a fundraiser to help pay for their flights, and the family took out a loan for living costs. In LA, Wixson had a video taken of her, which was sent to Models.com, and before she knew it, esteemed photographer Steven Meisel came calling. He wanted to shoot her for Vogue Italia. The hard work had paid off.

But Wixson’s fledgling success also meant that she had to leave school at 17 to focus on her career, only later achieving her high school diploma. “When I went to my school prom I was already out of high school,” she says. “I rented a limo for all my friends. Jason Wu designed my dress. It was insane.”

Fast forward three years later, and Wixson’s star has gone stratospheric. Even so, she has a pragmatic view of the industry. She takes inspiration from Miuccia Prada, who booked her to open the Prada show and close for Miu Miu in 2009, both exclusively. “[Miuccia] once said, ‘Fashion isn’t my life, it’s just my hobby,’” says the model. “I took that to mean, you don’t have to make it your whole world. It’s just a part of what you do.”

Wixson admits that modeling can get lonely at times. “Relationship-wise, you meet someone every six months and you try to build a friendship, but it’s hard in a competitive industry,” she laments. “It has made me a bit more guarded. I like to have just one close person in my life I can touch base with once in a while.”

That “close person” is her boyfriend, a photographer she prefers not to name, with whom she recently moved to Paris. “I’m learning new perspectives from traveling,” she says. “It gives me a progressive view of the world.”

But her forward-thinking doesn’t stop at modeling: now that she’s achieved her childhood dream, Wixson finds her plans are shifting. She’d like to do environmental studies, possibly in Copenhagen, and hopes one day to create an organization that will sponsor people to grow organic food. “I’m super-lucky to be doing this job,” she says, “but I know that my looks are only temporary. So I’m constantly looking for my next career. I’m always on the lookout for the next opportunity.”

Right now, the next thing to tick off is to finish building a new home on her land back in Kansas, complete with a greenhouse so that she can grow vegetables. “It takes time. It doesn’t happen overnight,” she says. “You have to work it out in your mind and envision what you want, the steps, the outcome, until you can see it. Then you let life follow.” Whether she’s envisioning her garden or the next big move in her career, there is no doubt that Lindsey Wixson will achieve her goals.
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The interview is wonderful in that it isn't about which designers she wears etc and goes well with her quote about fashion being just a part of what she does.

And interesting plans about doing environmental studies and looks like she's slowly working towards her dreams :)
 
That interview is amazing! Makes me love her even more :wub:
plus, those photos are delicious :heart:
 
I always respected her as a model but that interview just made me fall for her :wub:
I like that she really worked for this, put herself out there to make it happen. We usually read about models being discovered by chance, I find her story very refreshing :)
 
Oh wow, I love the pictures, she looks so beautiful, in such an effortless way. But I loved the interview even more, she sounds very down to earth. She's been growing on me for quite some time now :wub:
 
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