Surely,the woman who inspired some of photographic master Richard Avedon’s best work and broke modelling’s reflective glass ceiling in 1973,by signing a $250,000 a year Revlon contract for 20 days’ work,understands the power of high cheekbones,an unflinching stare and athletic frame.
“Well I spent enormous amounts of time in the sun growing up,so some days I wake up looking like the bottom of a foot.”
“I had a pretty good-looking dad and a pretty good-looking mother,so I was lucky.”
Hutton’s shoot-from-the-hip views on beauty – this is the women who ditched covering the gap in her teeth with mortician’s wax and kept making money – have scored her a return ticket to Australia as a guest of David Jones,for the department store’s Beauty Awards in Sydney on July 19.
Just don’t expect Hutton to applaudany anti-ageing products,as she is a forthright exponent of age positivity.
“I think this anti-ageing business was some desperate ploy by advertising people and it took off like mad. What is ageing for? It’s for growing up and getting wise,especially to ourselves.”
When did she decide that being old could be beautiful?