Meet 14 of Fashion’s Next Supermodels

Where are you from? I am from Montclair, NJ, but I moved to Miami 2 years ago.

How/where did you get scouted: My friend sent me an Instagram reel for an open call in Miami. I waited in a line for 2 hours and then was signed. I was 16 at the time, and then I came to New York and got signed. Now I’m doing my first season in New York, which is really exciting.

How is your first season going so far? I did Alaia two nights ago, which was so fun. They put me in this forty-pound coat, and it was definitely a workout because we had to go around nine spirals. They had me in these plastic, morphed-to-the-foot shoes… there was one other girl in the same shoe. When we got to the bottom floor at the rehearsal, our feet were bleeding. We got to change shoes (for the show) (laughs). It’s been fun! I love it. I love all of it. It’s fun to go to castings and wear expensive clothes, see beautiful women, and go to beautiful places.

What were you doing before you started modeling? Before I started modeling, I was a typical teenage girl. I struggled in school, I went out for boba and to thrift stores with my friends, went to a few parties, got lots of bruises skateboarding, and dated guys who were a waste of my time. The usual.

What do you like to do for fun? I’m still in high school right now, so I’m definitely really busy with school, modeling, and shows. Other than that, I really love fashion. I have an obsession with lingerie. I want to go into that after, like contour design. I love to skateboard. I grew up skateboarding so that’s always been a back-of-the-head thing but now I can’t get bruises so I really have to schedule out when I can skate. I also grew up playing a ton of sports. Anything you can imagine, I would do it for a while until I’d get bored and start the next one. I’ve done everything like hockey, swimming, soccer… everything. I’m very active.

Do you have advice for someone who is experiencing their very first fashion week? The biggest one is that if you don’t get booked for something, it’s not necessarily because it’s personal, it’s because you didn’t fit the brand. It has definitely been important because I’m 17 so things are always more heightened emotionally. I’m also on a lot of estrogen because I’m trans so everything is more intense for me. I left high school to do this… I’m online now. There are all sorts of factors that are stressful and to know that it’s not your fault if you don’t book something, it’s not personal to you or how you look, and it’s just the brand is really good reinforcement to hear.