LakshmiMenon

LakshmiMenon

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LakshmiMenon Profile

  • Name:
  • LakshmiMenon
  • Born:
  • November 4, 1981
  • Profession / Known For:
  • Model

LakshmiMenon Biography

Lakshmi Menon is a successful Indian super model. She started modelling while doing a degree course in sociology at the Bangalore University and later became very successful. Menon was featured in French Vogue editorial for the first time in October, 2008 and has also done ramp walks for many international brands like Max Mara, Givenchy, Bergdorf Goodman, Bloomingdales, H&M, J Crew, Hermes, Neiman Marcus and Nordstrom. She has also been featured in many Indian magazines. She is a Bangalore born Goa based model born in 1981. Her parents belong to Kerala. In 2011, she became the first Indian model to feature in a Pirelli calendar. Photography was done by Karl Lagerfeld.  Now she lives in Goa in a house built at hill top aside her life partner, the photographer Prabuddha Dasgupta.


Lakshmi was born in November 4, 1981 to an army officer. Though born in a traditional family, she was raised modern and her parents too, didn’t have any objection in her modelling. She was at college at Bangalore University studying sociology when a modeling scout approached her saying that she can work as a model as she is 5 feet 10 inch height. To get pocket money, she started the job as fun and when she became successful, she became fully involved in it.

 
An agency in Europe seeing her work in an Indian magazine contacted her for an international project. Jean Paul Gaultier wanted a dusky Indian girl to walk on one of his shows. This was her biggest break in her international modelling career. It was never an overnight success, but a slow built dream. She began her international career in 2006 and was featured in French Vogue editorial for the first time in October, 2008. She won the “This year’s Model” crown awarded by Vogue for 2008 and was also in the Top 10 Newcomers by Style.com and on the cover of Elle the same year.

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Updated: January 28, 2014

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