

Gen Z, she says, is helping drive forward the sustainability effort. MESSIKA PARIS earring, (left), $3,500, and stud earring, (sold as pair), $4,100. I’m sort of a wimp: it’s cold in L.A.”īALMAIN jumpsuit, $29,820. Her days of surfing have waned: “I like surfing, but I don’t do it enough.

But when she does go out, she has her regular favorites: the Hollywood Bowl for a concert in the summer Matsuhisa and Sushi Zo for a meal and some dance cardio at Body By Simone. “I’m going to be honest with you, I’m pretty much a homebody,” she says. She lives on the west side and likes nothing better than to spend an evening at home with her partner, hair stylist Teddy Charles. “I love the mix: There’s a lot going on in California. And I can walk and be at the beach in the same amount.” She also enjoys the eclectic culture of the city. … I love that I can look out my window and see the mountains and go walk in the mountains in five minutes. “I needed to be in a big city, and I wanted to be somewhere close to nature.
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Later, when she started acting too (she has over 30 credits to her name, including the movie Hitch and the TV drama series Revenge) she moved to Los Angeles and raised her son, Auden, now 19, here. Her debut Vogue cover came at the age of 18. I grew up coming out to visit him.” After her mother enrolled her in modeling classes at the age of 15, Valletta landed her first gig in Italy that same summer. Born in Arizona and raised in Oklahoma, Valletta was 2 years old when her parents separated and her father moved to San Diego. “Thank God for earpieces.”Īlthough she is often in New York, her home is Los Angeles. “I am multitasking,” Valletta says as she chats to me by phone. to New York, and now she is in her favorite salon, Suite Caroline in SoHo, having her hair colored and nails manicured before taking a flight in the morning to Saudi Arabia. Once she had paid her $50 post-and-forfeit fine, she was released. … But it can be a huge catalyst for change” “Fashion is one of the biggest polluters. … they decided to arrest us on-site without any cuffs, put us in lines … and hand us tickets.” “ we were literally arrested with cuffs and thrown in a wagon and taken off to a holding place. She laughs as she is cuffed, then chants: “The waters! Are rising! And so are we!” A video on Valletta’s Instagram shows her being handcuffed in November. for the second time in recent weeks - during a “Fire Drill Friday” demonstration, a weekly event spearheaded by Jane Fonda and aimed to pressure lawmakers to take action on climate change. The day prior to our conversation, she was arrested in Washington, D.C. … it can be a huge catalyst for change, because fashion dictates a lot and everybody gets dressed in the world.” She has parlayed her fame as one of the original ’90s supermodels - having appeared on no less than 16 American Vogue covers - into a role as one of the most active and outspoken voices for climate change and sustainability in the industry. Now 46, it is her role as a fashion renegade for which she is best known. From left: STELLA McCARTNEY dress, $2,900.
