{"id":26219,"date":"2021-06-10T11:36:36","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T01:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/?post_type=articles&#038;p=195217"},"modified":"2021-06-10T07:17:34","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T07:17:34","slug":"adut-akech-estee-lauder","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/adut-akech-estee-lauder\/","title":{"rendered":"Adut Akech Has Been Named The New Face Of Est\u00e9e Lauder: &#8220;To Be The Representation I Didn\u2019t Have Growing Up Means Everything&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_195221\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-195221\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-195221\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1311787331.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1442\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-195221\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a0Adut Akech walks along 46th Street during the Michael Kors Fashion Show in Times Square on April 08, 2021 in New York City. (Photo by James Devaney\/GC Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Supermodel <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/articles\/adut-akech-diy-face-mask\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Adut Akech<\/a> \u2013 as a global fashion industry darling that&#8217;s walked for all the top luxury houses and landed coveted magazine covers across the world \u2013 is hardly an unknown face. But her recent appointment as the newest ambassador for cosmetics giant <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/articles\/nail-your-french-girl-beauty-with-violettes-new-estee-lauder-collection-oh-naturelle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Est\u00e9e Lauder<\/a> is set to catapult her from fashion industry notoriety to household name, and the significance and magnitude of such a role isn&#8217;t lost on Akech.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To be part of the Est\u00e9e Lauder family is a dream come true. 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font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CPq8XcoBqQt\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\">A post shared by Adut Akech Bior (@adutakech)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In a post on her Instagram, Akech further detailed her excitement about the opportunity. &#8220;Mrs. Este\u0301e Lauder said, &#8216;I never dreamed of success, I worked for it.&#8217; Words cannot express how Proud and excited I am to share I\u2019m now a part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/esteelauder\/\" target=\"_blank\">@<\/a>esteelauder\u00a0family as their newest\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/explore\/tags\/esteeglobalambassador\/\" target=\"_blank\">#<\/a>EsteeGlobalAmbassador,&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;All my hard work has led me to moments like this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Akech has spoken openly about being unable to see herself reflected in the fashion and beauty realms as a teenager in Adelaide, Australia. She revealed that she hopes her ambassadorship for a global brand will be able to change that for others. &#8220;Growing up in the western world I didn\u2019t really see a representation of myself in [the] fashion and beauty world on television or magazines until I got into the fashion industry,&#8221; she continued.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_195222\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-195222\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-195222\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1210088322.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1536\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-195222\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adut Akech walks the runway during the Alexander McQueen as part of Paris Fashion Week Womenswear Fall\/Winter 2020\/2021 on March 02, 2020 in Paris, France. (Photo by Kristy Sparow\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;To now be the representation in the fashion beauty space I didn\u2019t have a growing up means everything to me. My little sisters will now also see their faces in my beauty ads and campaign billboards, little back girls in South Sudan, Africa and all around the world will now see themselves in me through the work I will do in this space,&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;I hope you can see though we are more than WORTHY of being faces of the biggest iconic global beauty brands. I do it to break down barriers, to prove we are here, we are unique &amp; beautiful, for the little girls and boys not seen and heard.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The brand appears just as excited to be working with Akech, who spent her early years at a refugee camp in Kenya before emigrating to Australia. &#8220;Adut is one of fashion\u2019s biggest and most influential stars,&#8221; said group president for the Est\u00e9e Lauder Companies St\u00e9phane de la Faverie. &#8220;We believe her incredible story, personality and beauty will help us continue to inspire and connect with our consumers and establish her as a beauty icon of her generation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We can&#8217;t wait to follow this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27090,"featured_media":26220,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[30,16],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v18.5 (Yoast SEO v20.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Adut Akech Has Been Named The New Face Of Est\u00e9e Lauder<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Supermodel Adut Akech has been named the new face of cosmetics giant Est\u00e9e Lauder. 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