Long golden hair, eyes of a lagoon blue, hemmed lips, 1.79 meters of crazy pace.
These are some of the beauty signatures that earned Madison Headrick his first advertising campaign for Ralph Lauren at just 15 years old.
As a child, the young American already opened her eyes in ecstasy to the fascinating world of fashion and had fun organizing fashion shows with her little sister in the family living room of their house in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Her dream comes true when a talent scout spots her, at age 14, in a small grocery store.
The athletic teenager decides to take her chance and double her classes to finish high school a semester early.
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“The objective of these six months was clear: to try the adventure of modeling, to give the best of myself, and if that did not work, to go to university as planned.
Very quickly, I landed an exclusive for the Prada fall-winter 2012 fashion show and flew to Milan!
Travels, catwalks, photo shoots… Everything happened so fast, it was dizzying but I enjoyed every minute of it.”
Since then, Madison Headrick has been one of the most sought after supermodels.
Fashion is much more than a job for her.
When she is not parading, she attends the shows of her favorite designers.
“Last July, the haute couture fashion show of the Schiaparelli house and the retrospective at the Museum of Decorative Arts* which is dedicated to him amazed me.
This display of talent, freedom,
visionary inventiveness overwhelmed me.
When fashion makes it possible to express and feel emotions, it is, in my opinion, the pinnacle of art.”
Madison Headrick, the Cover Story
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If this blonde with a sunny personality, American football fan and great supporter of the Georgia Bulldogs savors her incredible destiny, she also measures the investment that this singular profession imposes, not to mention the requirement of social networks (537,000 subscribers on Instagram ) increasingly hungry for images and intimate content.
“My prom, my vacation plans, my birthdays and those of my loved ones and all those little events that make the charm of everyday life… There are many things in my personal life that I have missed because of my job. overloaded time, she concedes.
I measure how lucky I am to work in a passionate and exciting environment, I am a privileged person,
At 28, her life remains a dizzying whirlwind, between shootings and fashion shows all over the world.
But wherever she is, the beautiful American has the habit of taking a break every day, to… walk or more precisely “wander”, a way of gathering and opening up to the world.
When she's at home in New York, the model never compromises on her sacred morning ritual.
Slipped into jeans, an XL shirt from her fiancé and a pair of Converse, she goes for a long walk with her English bulldog – baptized Francis Bacon by this art enthusiast – in one of the parks in her neighborhood.
There, she loves to sit on a bench and watch people passing by.
A parenthesis in the frenzy.
That's Paris !
Even when she is in Paris, the city where she dreams of coming to live one day, it is also by strolling the streets that the supermodel feels most alive.
“To sit on the terrace of a café where Picasso and Hemingway used to hang out, to stroll along the Seine which inspired Monet and Renoir, or to be surrounded by incredible architecture bearing so much history… The City light represents art and culture in all its glory, she says.
Without forgetting, of course, that it is the capital of fashion.
Walk through any Parisian arrondissement and you'll find the best vintage shops, restaurants packed with women and men with incredible looks, and squares full of kids in really adorable outfits.
I am entirely of
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Shocking!
The surreal worlds of Elsa Schiaparelli
, until January 22, 2023 at the Museum of Decorative Arts, in Paris.