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Lakshmi Menon (Suhel Seth's Wife)

F4U Editorial Desk • Updated October 5, 2026 • 3 min read

Quick Info

Date of birth4 November 1981

Age37 Years (as in 2018)

BirthplaceBengaluru, Karnataka, India

ProfessionModel

NationalityIndian

Marital statusMarried

SpouseSuhel Seth

FamilyParents: Father (former Indian Army personnel), Mother (teacher); Sibling: 1 brother

Lakshmi Menon (Suhel Seth's Biography

Lakshmi Menon is an Indian fashion model who built an international career after moving from Bengaluru to the runways of Paris and New York. Known for high

Early life and background

Lakshmi Menon was born on 4 November 1981 in Bengaluru, Karnataka. Her father served in the Indian Army, which meant the family moved around the country during her childhood. She later attended Bangalore University, where she completed a degree in sociology.

Career

While she was at college, Menon was approached by a modelling scout and accepted a commercial assignment to earn extra money. After graduating she pursued modelling full time in India, working on advertising jobs and building experience in the local industry.

Her international breakthrough came in 2006 when a European agency sought an Indian face for Jean Paul Gaultier’s shows. That opportunity brought her to Paris, and successive runway seasons helped establish her profile in both the Paris and New York fashion scenes. During her career she took part in campaigns for luxury houses and retailers such as Hermès, Givenchy, Bergdorf Goodman and Max Mara. She has also appeared on the covers of prominent magazines including Vogue (Indian and American editions), Harper’s Bazaar and Elle.

Menon achieved a number of notable firsts for Indian models: she was the first Indian to appear in the Pirelli calendar and the first Indian model to be featured in French Vogue. Early in her international career she was sometimes perceived as looking South American or Middle-Eastern, an ambiguity that prevented her from being boxed into a single ethnic type and helped broaden the range of work she was offered.

Public profile

Menon’s public image combines a commitment to fashion with private interests and lifestyle choices. She lives with a number of pet dogs and cats and lists hobbies that include travelling, swimming, running, Pilates, reading novels and watching films. Her tastes in food and culture reflect cosmopolitan preferences: she enjoys dark chocolate, Indian and Japanese cuisine, and favours red wine. Among her cinematic and literary interests are classic and international filmmakers and authors; she has mentioned favourites such as Bicycle Thieves and The Road by Cormac McCarthy, and counts directors like Vittorio de Sica, Yasujiro Ozu and Francois Truffaut among those she admires.

Personal life

Menon has had relationships with photographer Prabuddha Dasgupta and architect Bijoy Jain. In 2017 she began a relationship with Suhel Seth. The couple became engaged in October 2018 and married on 25 December 2018 in Gurugram, Haryana. The marriage is noted in public profiles as a union with Suhel Seth, who is older than Menon by several years. Her parents have been described in available information as a former Indian Army personnel (father) and a teacher (mother). She has one brother.

Latest updates

As of the latest available details, Menon continues to be recognized for her contributions to fashion and for the international scope of her modelling work. Her career milestones, including high-profile campaigns and editorial features, remain central to how she is remembered in fashion circles.

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Recent Work

Jean Paul Gaultier runway shows

Brought her to Paris in 2006 and helped establish her international modelling career.

2006
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Career Highlights

  1. First Indian model to appear in the Pirelli calendar
  2. First Indian model featured in French Vogue
  3. Campaigns for Hermès, Givenchy, Bergdorf Goodman and Max Mara
  4. Cover appearances on Indian and American Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar and Elle
Reviewed by F4U Editorial Desk

F4U profile pages are prepared from public career information, checked for readability, and updated when reliable correction sources are shared with the editorial team.

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