Ingūna Butāne

{{Short description|Latvian model}}

{{Infobox model

| name = Ingūna Butāne

| image = Inguna Butane in Michael Kors FW 08 Collection.jpg

| image_size = 180px

| caption = Ingūna Butāne in Michael Kors Fall Collection.

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1986|2|24}}

| birth_place = Riga, Latvian SSR, USSR

| height = {{height|m=1.77}}

| hair_color = Brown

| eye_color = Blue

| agency = {{Plainlist|

• One Management (New York){{cite web | url=https://onemanagement.com/New-York/Women/Image/INGUNA-BUTANE/Portfolio | title=INGUNA BUTANE | New York | Women | ONE Management }}
• One Management (London){{cite web | url=https://onemanagement.com/UK/Women/Image/INGUNA-BUTANE/Portfolio | title=INGUNA BUTANE | UK | Women | ONE Management }}
• One Management (Barcelona){{cite web | url=https://onemanagement.com/Spain/Women/Image/INGUNA-BUTANE/Portfolio | title=INGUNA BUTANE | Spain | Women | ONE Management }}
• Marilyn Agency (Paris)
• d'management group (Milan)
• Modellink (Gothenburg)
• Model Management (Hamburg)
• Public Image Management (Montreal)
• ELY Management (Prague)
• MP Stockholm (Stockholm){{Cite web|url=https://models.com/models/inguna-butane|title=Inguna Butane - Model}} }}

}}

Ingūna Butāne (born February 24, 1986), sometimes simply known as Inguna, is a Latvian model.

Butāne was discovered when a contest was held in Latvia, where she met agents from Women Management in Milan, Italy, but decided to finish her degree of Interior Design. She then went to Moscow, Russia, and subsequently to New York, USA, to start her career.[http://models.com/model_culture/model_of_week/inguna/index.html/ Of the Minute]

She has been in ad campaigns for Armani Jeans, Bergdorf Goodman, Dolce & Gabbana, L'Oréal, Marc (a second line of Marc Jacobs), and Neiman Marcus. Her runway work includes Fendi, Alexander McQueen,{{cite book |last1=Gleason |first1=Katherine |title=Alexander McQueen: Evolution |date=2012 |publisher=Race Point Publishing |isbn=9781937994006 |page=137 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d9gLFO1ztJ8C&q=%22Ing%C5%ABna+But%C4%81ne%22&pg=PA137 |access-date=25 November 2018}} Viktor and Rolf, Yohji Yamamoto, Alice Roi, Baby Phat, Belstaff, Gucci, Versace, and Oscar de la Renta. She is currently signed with Mother New York.

In 2005 Butāne worked with Steven Meisel as part of the 80-page "Makeover Madness" feature in Italian Vogue, which also included Linda Evangelista and Jessica Stam.{{cite magazine|title=Memo Pad|first=Meenal|last=Mistry|magazine=Women's Wear Daily|volume=190|issue=8|date=13 July 2005|page=9}} In 2007 she worked with Annie Leibovitz on an ad campaign for Bottega Veneta, along with Anja Rubik, Kim Noorda, and Noah Mills.{{cite magazine|title=Memo Pad|first=Luisa|last=Zargani|magazine=Women's Wear Daily|volume=193|issue=134|date=25 June 2007|page=15}}

She walked in the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show in 2005, 2007 and 2008.

Butāne is the daughter of a professional violinist.{{cite news|title=Flashes|work=El Mundo|date=31 May 2008|page=58}} She played the violin when she was young.{{cite magazine|title=Slavs of Fashion: The New Beauties|magazine=Vanity Fair|first=Evgenia|last=Peretz|date=1 April 2005|issue=536|page=226}} She loves to listen to classical music.