#DWW: Happy Birthday, Daria Werbowy! Celebrating the Face That Launched a Thousand Céline Campaigns — vogue.com

Today, in honor of Daria Werbowy’s 31st birthday, we’re dedicating our third installment of #DWW to her cultish Céline campaigns. As remarkable as her modeling portfolio may be—Werbowy has played muse to every photographer from Helmut Newton to Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin—it’s her seven-season collaboration with the house’s creative director Phoebe Philo and photographer Juergen Teller that has defined the look of the moment. First debuting in the company’s spring 2011 ad, Daria helped to usher in a new wave of modern, approachable luxury—her makeup-free skin and finger-raked bun as coolly real-world wearable as Philo’s well-tailored separates. Whether captured brimming over the edge of a bathtub (spring 2013) or combed back and gleaming like her leather tunic (fall 2012), the model’s choppy, wavy bob induced a near universal need-it-now reaction with its air-dried ease and signature layers. tightly bound turban,  she managed to capture the precise mix of irreverence and practicality that our complicated times crave. Adding to each photograph’s aura of stripped-back confidence, of course, there is Werbowy herself—a woman has successfully forged a deeply private life while navigating a highly public persona, and whose ability to turn even a pair of jeans and tangle of waves into something distinctly glamorous is practically legendary.  Here, a look back at her best beauty moments from the Céline campaigns.

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