![]() VALLETTA: There were different reactions. INTERVIEW: What was your family in Oklahoma’s reaction to your sudden fame? VALLETTA: We did! It was like a sorority. INTERVIEW: It’s nice to know that all the models were running around together having a good time. We’d all hang out and get into trouble and stuff like that. And then Christy and Naomi and Linda all kind of shepherded us and were good to us. Carla Bruni was the first girl to say hello to me at a shoot. There have been a few people in the business: Paul Cavaco and Garren Defazio, both of whom I call “Papa.” Peter Lindbergh and Steven Meisel, for sure. VALLETTA: My agent, Didier Fernandez-who’s been my agent since I was 18-has definitely been a mentor and a protector and a trusted friend. INTERVIEW: Was there anyone taking you under their wing at the time? Then I got a Vogue cover-my first Vogue-and that came out a few months later. I worked with Steven Meisel within a month and a half and I booked every show. And then literally overnight everything changed. Two guys cutting my hair at the same time. He was like, “Oh my god, I thought you were so much older because of your haircut!” So, not too long after that, I was on castings for the shows, and I bumped into him and Ward Stegerhoek-another big-time hairdresser-and they looked at me and said, “Let’s cut your hair off.” We went back to my apartment in Paris and just cut it all off. So I said to him, “Let’s cut my hair off! He looked at me and was like, “Why? How old are you?” I told him I was 18 and his eyes almost popped out of his head. I was working all the time but I hadn’t done shows or real editorial work. ![]() I was working with a well-known hairdresser, Yannick d’Is, on a French beauty campaign and had a bob down to my chin. VALLETTA: Nobody had short hair at the time. INTERVIEW: What prompted the new haircut? I was about 18 when I cut my hair off-the little pixie haircut. Then I cut my hair short and it basically changed everything overnight. The other big break would have been a cover of French Elle with Hans Feurer. I think I had one or two test shoots there. That was two weeks after being in Milan for the very first time. I cried on set because I didn’t know what to do. ![]() VALLETTA: It was an advertorial for Italian Vogue. INTERVIEW: What was your first really big job? It was like the call of the wild-I just couldn’t not go anymore. But my career was starting and people were calling and I kept getting pulled out of school to work anyway. In retrospect, I wish I had spent one more year at home. Luckily, I had already traveled to Europe twice before I finally moved out at 17. I didn’t even really know what that meant. They asked if I wanted to come to Europe for the summer to model. My mom had paid for modeling classes, and some scout came through and discovered me. VALLETTA: I got discovered in Tulsa at a local agency. INTERVIEW: How did you get from Tulsa to Europe? INTERVIEW: You grew up in Oklahoma, right?ĪMBER VALLETTA: I grew up in Tulsa, then moved to Europe to model when I was 17. Amber VallettaĪBOVE: AMBER VALLETTA IN NEW YORK, JULY 2013. They looked at me and said, ‘Let’s cut your hair off.’ We went back to my apartment in Paris and just cut it all off.
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