![]() ![]() Stella McCartney cotton ribbed-knit tank, £550.Mr Bertelli, the boss of Prada, was standing there on the riverbank shouting at everyone. Karl Lagerfeld x Amber Valletta organic- and recycled-cotton denim jacket, £219, and matching trousers, £169. “Karl always thought highly of her, not only as a model but as a person.” “She really brings life into the clothes,” he says. “What I admire about her is that we are so aligned in our values and outlook, which is why I have always loved working with her since day one – she is a true change agent.” Hun Kim, design director of Karl Lagerfeld, agrees. “I’ve known and worked with Amber for a very long time,” says McCartney. “I want to be free to work on all my other projects,” she tells me, “ but – Scorsese, I’m here! Pedro, I’m here!” As for modelling, she walked for Stella McCartney last season, and she still enjoys it – “certain jobs, I get the buzz”. Recent work has seen her doing less acting. Tiffany & Co white-gold and diamond earring, £4,175 for pair © Nathaniel Goldberg Hermès silk jacquard knit bodysuit with cutout, £2,000, and jersey high-waisted Milano trousers, £2,350. And so they make these funny reports and you’re like, ‘Huh? What did you just say?’ You don’t really feel the clear-cut truth of what is going on.” “People aren’t really open about what they are doing because they’re afraid they’re not doing enough. ”įast-forward to now, and the topic is on everybody’s lips, but has enough actually been done? “No,” she replies. A little rock ’n’ roll, a little boyish, a little sexy at times – that’s kind of, maybe, my vibe. “I’m gonna go to the gym, that’s why I’m in sweats!” Her personal style is more a blazer and a pair of Levi’s she wears a lot of vintage. She looks positively concerned when asked if the athleisure she has on is her favourite clothing. A sports fan, she was pleased France made it to the World Cup final, mostly for Charles’s sake: “He’s kind of sociopathic about it, you know?” she beams. She is, unsurprisingly, quite private, but happy to dwell on domestic details. Valletta has a son, Auden, 22, with former husband Chip McCaw, but is now in a relationship with French hairstylist Teddy Charles. Prada leather shoes, £990 © Nathaniel Goldberg Tod’s cotton gilet, £840, and matching trousers, £900. I didn’t really come from a lot, so I knew that I was really blessed to have this opportunity.” (Fame can be quite fraught also Valletta has been sober since 1999 and released a video about her battle with addiction in 2014 to help others struggling with those issues.)īottega Veneta leather jacket, matching trousers, and double-cotton tank tops, all POA © Nathaniel Goldberg “I’ve always felt that it was a powerful sword, so to speak, and I had to wield it with grace and responsibility. “I think that when you have fame quite young, or maybe at any age, you have to determine what it means to you,” she says. Having got her first Vogue cover aged 18, she has developed a more reasoned attitude to celebrity. “I am certainly not someone who likes to sit in the same thing,” says Valletta, who turned 49 this week. She is also about to launch a third clothing collaboration with the label Karl Lagerfeld, consulting on both environmental impact and design. As an actress, she has starred in films like Hitch and the TV series Revenge, while she was one of the first in her industry to speak up about climate change – in 2021 she became sustainability ambassador for the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. Her sculptural beauty, offset by piercing grey-green eyes, has made her the face of countless campaigns, from Calvin Klein, Prada and Versace in the ’90s to Saint Laurent, Mugler and Stella McCartney today. ![]() Nearly 35 years later, Valletta is one of the greatest supermodels. “Lord knows, people saw me popping and locking…” “I did that,” nods Valletta a little ruefully, sitting in a large caramel-coloured sweatshirt in the study of her LA home. The result was the teenage Valletta standing on a box in her local shopping mall, practising the deathless art of mannequin-modelling. When Amber Valletta was 15 years old, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, her mother entered her for modelling classes. ![]()
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