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Lakshmi Menon (born 4 November 1981) is an Indian model.

Career

She initially took up modelling to earn money while studying for a degree in sociology at the Bangalore University.

She started modeling full-time after college, but although she worked in India for several years, she didn't have much success. After modelling in India for several years, she began her international career in 2006 after Jean Paul Gaultier saw her work in an Indian magazine while looking for an Indian model to walk in his Chanel show in Paris. A show for Jean Paul Gaultier was followed by work on the Hermès catwalk and campaigns for Hermès, Max Mara, Givenchy, H&M, J Crew, Bergdorf Goodman, Bloomingdales, Neiman Marcus, and Nordstrom.

Menon was featured in French Vogue editorial for the first time in October 2008, after her Milan show for La Perla, in which she walked for D&G and Givenchy. She has also appeared in editorials for American, Spanish, Indian, and French Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, V Magazine, Dazed & Confused, Indian Elle, and Allure. She won the "This year’s Model" crown awarded by Vogue for 2008. She was also in the Top 10 Newcomers by Style.com and on the cover of Elle the same year.

She's worked with Jean Paul Gaultier, Hermes, Chanel—and is the face of the future." Vogue said in 2008 that she was "quite the embodiment of Givenchy's new-season style".

She featured in the 2011 Pirelli Calendar, photographed by Karl Lagerfeld and is the first Indian model to feature in a Pirelli calendar.

Personal life

Menon was born to Malayali parents originally from Thrissur in Kerala, her mother was a schoolteacher and her father was in the armed forces. She was the mistress of the Indian photographer Prabuddha Dasgupta from 2000 till his death in 2012. In December 2018, she married Suhel Seth. They have one daughter.

References

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9. "Lakshmi Menon bares all for Pirelli Calendar". NDTV. Retrieved 18 April 2013.
10. ""I don't fit into the Indian fashion scene that's obsessed with white skin"". Hindustan Times. 30 May 2016. My mother is a schoolteacher and my father was in the armed forces. My dad's job kept us on the move. They are not like those closed judgemental people you would find in Thrissur, Kerala.
11. ""I don't fit into the Indian fashion scene that's obsessed with white skin"". Hindustan Times. 30 May 2016. Indians don't go easy on relationships between an older married man and a single young woman, especially if they dare to bare. The hypocrisy of our society makes relationships controversial and vulgar. So much was written and much more whispered. But love seldom cares and neither did Lakshmi and Prabuddha, who looked after his wife and children while simultaneously sharing his special relationship with Lakshmi.
12. "Suhel Sheth marries girlfriend Lakshmi Menon in a private ceremony amidst Me Too allegations". DNA India. 27 December 2018. Retrieved 22 January 2019.
13. "Lakshmi Menon on embracing ageing, her changing relationship with her body and why she feels more confident now than ever before". Vogue India. 25 March 2022.

• 1981 births
• Living people
• Indian female models
• Female models from Kerala
• Bangalore University alumni