New faces: 10 models to watch out for
Text: Marina Bakieva
The rules of model business are changing.: as practice shows, slowly but surely. Brands, even those that have always adhered to the ideas of conventional beauty, increasingly make bets on people of very different appearance. At the end of the spring-summer shows, we tell about ten girls representing the spirit of the time - young models, who more often than others went to the catwalks of the most influential fashion brands.
Faretta
Croatian model Faretta debuted at the Givenchy show six months ago - this was the main impetus for her career. In the fashion weeks just past, she opened the show Victoria Beckham, Roberto Cavalli and Mugler, and also closed Chloé. In addition, Faretta, despite her novice status, was already on the podium of a huge number of various brands - from Alexander Wang to Christian Dior. With youthful maximalism, the girl declares that she can never have the moment when she finishes school. Faretta is ambitious and considers her modeling career to be a vocation to which she wants to devote her whole life - and her studies only hinder so far.
Today, the girl is assigned to two model agencies: Colors Model Management and Elite Paris & Milan. The 19-year-old Croat in her instagram asks not to look for her last name, and simply call “Faretta”. She still has everything ahead - yet, inspired by success, she regularly keeps a paper diary, and shares photos with events in social networks.
Ellen rossa
The star of Brazilian fashion week, 17-year-old Ellen Ross, was in glory thanks to the Alexander Wang show. It was her first show, but the casting directors of Chanel, Miu Miu, Moschino, Dolce & Gabbana and DKNY, after an impressive debut, also could not resist the charm of the girl. In total, she appeared on 29 shows.
Ross got into the industry thanks to a scout who spotted her when she got home after school. He immediately saw in the girl with a memorable and unusual appearance for the model world - dark skin, high forehead, full lips and bright green eyes - a future star. Prior to this, Ellen Ross spent her childhood watching anime and playing with younger sisters. She admits that if she had not become a model, she would have devoted herself to the study of the depths and would have become a marine biologist.
Ho yong jong
The Asian market for luxury goods is growing, while models from China, Japan and Korea are still popular. Ho Yong Jong was born and raised in a small town near Seoul and began her career about six years ago. She says that in her life there was no fateful meeting with a scout in a cafe, like many others. She was guided by a practical approach to life: "Once I wondered: how to make money? And then a thought occurred to me. I am quite tall, so why not try my hand at modeling?"
After exhausting casting and hard work in 2012, the girl got into ESteem Models, and a little later - in the TV show "Korean Top Model", in which she took 2nd place. She takes her work seriously, but with a fair amount of irony: "It seems to me that if I just fool around, laugh out loud and make a face, then the photos are much more expressive and livelier than if I just stand in a pose and look pathetic in the frame ".
Marc Jacobs, Fendi, Louis Vuitton, Max Mara, Alberta Ferretti - in the spring-summer 2017 season shows, the red-haired model was waiting for a resounding success. Her first show this year - Rag & Bone - was held in New York. Chon liked the city so much that she decided to move to it.
Sarah grace wallerstedt
The freckled face framed with red hair, huge green eyes - Sarah Grace is not like most, and stylists and make-up artists willingly use it. As a child, the girl was complex because of her appearance and considered herself unattractive, but, having pozvzroslev, she realized that her beauty simply does not fit into the generally accepted standards.
So far, the portfolio of the 17-year-old model is a bit of a show. However, the fact that such fashion industry giants like Prada became interested in it, and Proenza Schouler reserved an “exclusive” with it, means that the future is secured for it. The next logical step is the appearance of Sarah in the advertising campaigns of these brands. After the shows, she returned to Texas, where she continued her studies at school. She is now in the last class, and during the Fashion Week, the teachers even included an online broadcast from the shows in which the girl participated.
Jesse Blumendaal
Dutch Jesse does not look like a regular model - at least due to eyebrows bleached to transparencies. The 20-year-old girl conquered casting directors of such brands as Rag & Bone, Alexander Wang, Victoria Beckham, Tory Burch and Prabal Gurung with her looks, coming out at the spring-summer 2017 season shows. This is her first New York Fashion Week - Bluemenda only worked in Europe before. The Maison Margiela, Iris van Herpen and Fendi shows in which she participated in Spring-Summer 2016 High Fashion Week impressed her with their scale and entertainment.
In the future, she hopes to become a real star of the modeling business, stating in one of the interviews: “Each model wants to act in the most famous advertising campaigns so that her photo hangs on billboards or open grandiose shows,” I also dream about it, although I understand that it will take time. "
Elibeydi Denis Martinez
Although today more and more opportunities are given to models of African descent, it sometimes seems that not so much has changed since the time of the iconic show Yves Saint Laurent. Naomi Campbell, Jordan Dunn and Tyra Banks are still struggling with racial discrimination on the runways. Especially they are outraged by the inability of makeup artists to adapt makeup for skin tones, except light.
Fortunately, in each season there are new names that may correct the situation in the future. For example, the 19-year-old model of Elibeydi Denis Martinez from the Dominican Republic only managed to close the Burberry spring-summer 2017 show, as the American Vogue immediately included it in the list of "New models you need to know by sight." More - more: in the same season, she was lucky to participate in the Prada, John Galliano, Paco Rabanne, Jil Sander and Gucci shows.
Nora Attal
Nora began her modeling career at the age of 16, when she became the face of the spring-summer advertising campaign - 2014 J.W.Anderson. Now she works with the London agency Viva, which regularly offers her new projects. So, last season she managed to participate in the show Nina Ricci, Celiné, Prada, J.W.Anderson and many others.
Its appearance, it is obliged to the Moroccan roots. The girl says that every year with her family she visits relatives in this country. Her favorite film is “The Constancy of Memory” by Salvador Dali, the musical period is zero, and the site (except for social networks) is BBC News. She wants to study forensics at the university, and while she works as a model, she watches American Horror Story between shows.
Hannah Alice
Australian Hannah Alice as if descended from the paintings of Renaissance artists. Nicole Ghesquière conquered last year with her black-winged bob and unusual appearance, who invited her to watch the Louis Vuitton Spring-Summer 2016 season. Then her hair style was inspired by two favorite films: “Leon” and “Pulp Fiction”. Now her hair has grown back, but her modeling career is not a reason to leave experiments with her appearance: Alice has been used to dyeing hair since she was 13 years old. Once she even wanted to shave her head, but changed her mind.
In addition to the constant participation in the shows of Louis Vuitton, Hannah appeared in the show of the spring-summer season - 2017 Giambattista Valli, Rochas, Salvatore Ferragamo, Giamba. Her favorite book is known to be Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita, and her main dream is to travel the world as much as possible.
Julia Ratner
The Ukrainian model is often compared with Sasha Pivovarova and Gemma Ward. This is not surprising: all three have high cheekbones and huge puppet eyes. The story of Yulia is unique and simple to the impossibility: one day her mother went to another city to sell a cat, - the director of a modeling agency turned out to be a customer. At the meeting, Julia told her that she would like to try herself as a model, and since then they have been cooperating.
At 17, she reached the heights in the industry: she became the face of the cruise book of RED Valentino and participated in the show of the fall-winter season - 2016 Prada, Celiné, Dolce & Gabbana. The following season, the list of hits just increased: here Chanel, Alexander McQueen, Valentino, Celiné, Christian Dior, Loewe, Maison Margiela and many others. In total, she went to the podium 28 times.
Nova Orchid
Short cut bangs - a tribute to the love of the soloist Die Antwoord. With such a hairstyle, Nova Orchid has been walking since she was 13, and it was at this age that a scout noticed her. She is not limited to modeling work: the girl loves to ride on a longboard, roller skates and play the clarinet. Orchid collaborates with the model agency IMG Models, which now and then offers her a new job: in the spring-summer 2017 season, she appeared on shows by Chanel, Giamba, Stella McCartney and many others.
Photo: cover photo via Elite Model Management