Wixson was born in Wichita, Kansas, she’s only sixteen years old and already John Galliano, Versace Vanitas, Miu Miu, Jill Stuart and Alexander McQueen have all booked her for campaigns. She walked in a combined 44 shows in New York, Paris and Milan in the fall.
Wixson was 5-feet 7-inches at the age of twelve. Wixsons trademarks are her bee-stung lips, pout, and gapped front teeth (which she got from her dad).
“It just became clear to me,” Wixson says. She was reading an article in the Reader’s Digest in the bathroom once. “It was about how Bill Gates — the millionaires — got big,” she says. “It was talking about how they took the chance and they took their opportunities and they took it to a whole other level.” So at the age of twelve Lindsey Wixson decide to become a model.
Stefano Tonchi ran a full-page close-up of her lips and the gap in her teeth, her two most arresting features, in his first issue of W(Another amazing magazine, highly recommended).
Wixson has her limits in what she models, during a W editorial shoot "Run of Show" with Craig McDean she requested a bra because her top was see-through, W notes that a lot of models wouldn't have done that. Cheri Bowen, her agent at Marilyn Agency, says that Wixson is more interested in quality than quantity. “She’s incredibly intelligent about the business. She’s not about selling out,” she says.
Personally I’m glad Lindsey has her feet on the ground, a normal fifteen/sixteen year old would probably do anything for fame and fortune. Lindsey seems like an intelligent, wise and mature person, someone to look up to for teenagers who want to follow their dreams.
Lindsey Wixson by far is probably my favorite model, the first time I saw her in a magazine she immediately caught my attention. I’m pretty sure it was in a Vogue magazine where I saw this Miu Miu ad. The thing I loved about it was her soft, pink, curvy lips. I even copied them onto a scratch piece of paper so that I could later use it in my artwork.
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