In the new edition of Vogue Magazine British born supermodel Fran Summers makes the alluring cover as she introduces Vogue’s November Edition of its widely read fashion magazine. The 19 year old model talks about her growing up, her experience working with designers like Givenchy, Dior, Sonia Rykiel, Dior at the Vogue fashion week.
Here is an excerpt from the interview:
It’s not often that you get to witness the moment a model becomes a supermodel, but on a Saturday afternoon in New York’s Times Square earlier this summer – in the company of photographers Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin, and surrounded by thousands of tourists and the roaring Manhattan traffic – I got to see exactly that.
The young woman in question was Fran Summers, a 19-year-old from North Yorkshire, who Vogue readers will be familiar with from the frequency with which she has graced our pages these past months. From the moment
I met her, when she joined eight other new faces on our May cover, I knew that she had a magical quality. In a room packed with big personalities, full of nerves and excitement, I noticed how friendly she was with the other models, calming them down and making sure everyone felt as gorgeous as possible. She was so… kind.
Kindness was not always the thing when I started out as a stylist in the early 1990s. Yet, in 2018, perhaps it is this quality coupled with her extraordinary beauty that, in catwalks and campaigns, has made it Fran’s year. The time had come to seal the deal with her first solo British Vogue cover – but what should the story be?
After the couture shows, an idea began to take shape. This season, from Givenchy to Sonia Rykiel the collections were beautifully pure, devoid of excessive embellishments, while remaining impossibly, jaw-droppingly lavish. What if, I wondered, we took these elegant silhouettes across the Atlantic to create an ode to the British invasion of the 1960s, to Jean Shrimpton and the enduring glamour of an Englishwoman in New York? Cut to myself, Inez, Vinoodh and our teams commandeering one of the busiest thoroughfares on earth on a boiling hot afternoon. Because Fran is a proper beauty with universal appeal, there were actual gasps from onlookers as I walked her through the streets in her Dior gown. Literally, the crowds parted, taxis stopped, horns honked and the whole world seemed to stop and stare. She had arrived. It was, as we say in fashion, “a moment”
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