Is there anyone who captures the appeal of easy tomboy beauty better than Lauren Hutton? Shaking up the seventies as the adventure-seeking, slate-eyed American model, her honeyed complexion and sun-kissed hair embodied the spirit of an endless summer. It was a look she emphasized with a windswept, tumbling blowout that was as ready for leaping in front of Avedon’s lens as it was for wrestling a 400-pound alligator for Helmut Newton’s camera. And Hutton played up her perpetually tawny skin (we challenge you to find a pale photo of the Floridian) with peachy earth tones, even reportedly once using Tanzanian dirt as blush. It seems the only things necessary to achieve her freewheeling end-of-season look are a set of hot rollers, a tawny apricot blush, and a vacation-ready gleam in your eye.
#WCW: Lauren Hutton s Sunny Skin and Windswept Blowout
Why the model and actress’s honeyed complexion and sun-kissed hair were the very definition of endless summer.
Photographed by Irving Penn, Vogue, January 1969
