Filippa Hamilton – Legendary Beauty

Filippa Hamilton, one of fashion’s most iconic faces, celebrates an extraordinary career

- By Louise Fauvelle

Filippa Hamilton takes a few steps towards the camera and her long brown hair flutters over a transparent John Galliano dress. The FrenchSwedish supermodel is on a quick visit to Paris to star in the cover shoot for Maxim’s March/ April issue. For her, it is a happy reunion with photographer Gilles Bensimon, with whom she has worked several times during her 20-year-long career.

“When [the magazine’s European Fashion Director] Caroline Christiansson asked me if I wanted to be on the cover of Maxim, I felt incredibly honored,” Filippa tells me after the shoot. “I associate the magazine with Gilles’ many iconic covers, like the one of Sara Sampaio in the swimming pool—it’s sublime.”

The next day, she has already returned to her apartment in Hossegor, just north of the exclusive seaside city Biarritz on the French Atlantic coast. She has posted a selfie from the photo shoot on Instagram. Her account gives a glimpse of her everyday life with her son Kyan and her husband Mikaël “Miky” Picon, who is a professional surfer. They met at Biarritz Airport when she was 17 and have been a couple ever since.