Estelle Lefébure on a beach on the French Riviera, in 2025. Photo courtesy of the owner.
Her clear gaze suits the setting — enough to unsettle more than a few. On a private beach in southern France, the most famous of the “summer girls,” as French Vogue editors long called her, waits on a sofa between interviews, smiling politely at passersby. Tourists, waiters and Sunday strollers can hardly ignore one of fashion’s most recognizable faces — the same face plastered across city avenues and village shopfronts, gracing more than a thousand magazine covers and representing international cosmetic brands.Dressed in a black puff-sleeved top and high-waisted pants, Estelle Lefébure remains, for both fifty-something mothers and their children, a symbol of chic provinciality, a reassuring figure even with her visible laugh lines, proudly shown barefaced and makeup-free.“The community that follows me is mostly female and knows it can...
Her clear gaze suits the setting — enough to unsettle more than a few. On a private beach in southern France, the most famous of the “summer girls,” as French Vogue editors long called her, waits on a sofa between interviews, smiling politely at passersby. Tourists, waiters and Sunday strollers can hardly ignore one of fashion’s most recognizable faces — the same face plastered across city avenues and village shopfronts, gracing more than a thousand magazine covers and representing international cosmetic brands.Dressed in a black puff-sleeved top and high-waisted pants, Estelle Lefébure remains, for both fifty-something mothers and their children, a symbol of chic provinciality, a reassuring figure even with her visible laugh lines, proudly shown barefaced and makeup-free.“The community that follows me is mostly female and...
