Lauren Hutton 1994: Written Off at 40, Back on Top at 50 | Dini Petty

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Lauren Hutton, the original supermodel and star of American Gigolo, sat down with Dini Petty in 1994, at 50, doing something the fashion business had never let a woman her age do. She was back on the cover, back on top, and not by accident.

She came to New York with two hundred borrowed dollars, trying to fund a trip to Africa, and fell into modeling by mistake. Diana Vreeland saw a face everyone else called wrong. Two dozen Vogue covers followed. Then the industry did to her what it did to every woman at 40.

What she saw on a New York sidewalk, in the faces of the women who stopped her, is the reason she walked away from the movies and forced fashion to make room. Not seen since its original 1994 broadcast.

CHAPTERS

0:00 The original supermodel at 50
0:44 How Africa turned her into a model
0:53 Christian Dior, fifty dollars a week
1:44 The face Diana Vreeland loved
3:00 Two dozen Vogue covers
3:55 The bag lady fear
4:41 Out of business at 40
5:42 The photographs that brought her back
7:29 Turning 51

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