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The Age of Personality—25 Models Who Defined the 2010s

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By Laird Borrelli-Persson
  • Adut Akech Bior
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    Photo: Alessandro Garofalo / Indigital.tv
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    Adut Akech Bior in Alexander McQueen’s Fall 2018 show
    @adutakech; following: 466K

  • Adwoa Aboah
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    Photographed by Phil Oh
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    Adwoa Aboah in between shows, Spring 2017.
    @adwoaaboah; following: 791K

  • Anna Ewers
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    Photographed by Kevin Tachman
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    Anna Ewers backstage at Alexander Wang, Spring 2017
    @annaewers; following: 333K

  • Ashley Graham
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    Photo: Getty Images
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    Ashley Graham at the 2019 CFDA Awards
    @ashleygraham; following: 8.6M

  • Bella Hadid
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    Bella Hadid in Paris, Fall 2016 Couture
    @bellahadid; following: 25.1M

  • Binx Walton
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    Photo: Michele Morosi / InDigital / GoRunway
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    Binx Walton backstage at Giles Deacon, Fall 2013
    @binxwalton; following: 198K

  • Cara Delevingne
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    Cara Delevingne in Milan
    @caradelevingne; following: 42.6M

  • Edie Campbell
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    Edie Campbell in Paris, Spring 2014
    @ediebcampbell; following: 125K

  • Gigi Hadid
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    Gigi Hadid in New York, Spring 2019
    @gigihadid; following: 48.7M

  • Halima Aden
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    Photo: Courtesy of Yeezy
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    Halima Aden in Yeezy’s Fall 2017 show
    @halima; following: 942K

  • Imaan Hammam
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    Photographed by Phil Oh
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    Imaan Hammam in Milan, Spring 2016
    @imaanhammam; following: 743K

  • Joan Smalls
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    Photographed by Phil Oh
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    Joan Smalls in Paris, Fall 2018 Couture
    @joansmalls; following: 3.1M

  • Julia Nobis
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    Julia Nobis in Paris.
    Not having an Instagram account hasn't hampered this models’s success.

  • Kaia Gerber
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    Photographed by Corey Tenold
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    Kaia Gerber backstage at Moschino, Fall 2018
    @kaiagerber; following: 4.4M

  • Karlie Kloss
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    Karlie Kloss in Paris, Spring 2014
    @karliekloss; following: 8.2M

  • Kendall Jenner
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    Kendall Jenner in Giambattista Valli for H&M in Cannes, Spring 2019
    @kendalljenner; following: 113M

  • Kiki Willems
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    Kiki Willems in New York, Spring 2016
    @kdhwillems; following: 31.2K

  • Liu Wen
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    Photographed by Phil Oh
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    Liu Wen, 2014 Met Gala
    @liuwenlw; following: 4.7M

  • Mica Argañaraz
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    Mica Argañaraz in Milan, Spring 2017
    @micarganaraz; following: 171K

  • Nathan Westling
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    Photo: Courtesy of Prada
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    Nathan Westling in Prada’s Spring 2020 menswear show
    @nathanwestling; following: 210K

  • Paloma Elsesser
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    Photo: Courtesy of Sandy Liang
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    Paloma Elsesser in Sandy Liang’s Spring 2018 lookbook
    @palomija; following: 219K

  • Selena Forrest
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    Selena Forrest in a Rag & Bone top in Milan, Spring 2017
    @selenaforrest; following: 70.9K

  • Teddy Quinlivan
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    Teddy Quinlivan in Paco Rabanne in Paris, Fall 2019
    @teddy_quinlivan; following: 90.5K

  • Vittoria Ceretti
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    Vittoria Ceretti backstage at Dolce & Gabbana, Fall 2015
    @vittoria; following: 696K

  • Winnie Harlow
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    Winnie Harlow at the men’s shows in Paris, Spring 2017
    @winnieharlow; following 6.3M

Christian Lacroix is Laird Borrelli-Persson’s fashion raison d’etre; the way he combined romance and historicism set her on the path she is following today. Borrelli-Persson studied literature at Boston College, spending her junior year abroad at Oxford, where she added some art history. After graduation she moved to New York to intern ... Read More
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