Feature: Top 10 New Girls F/W 07.08

It's been a turbulent season in modeling, but F/W 07.08 knew how to deliver us some gorgeous faces anyway. New York had us prepared for the successes of several girls, but alas, some of these successes never came. Or at least, not yet. Some faces survived and some others popped out of nowhere in Europe and started to rule the runways. But what's most the characteristic of this season is that some of the major new girls were in fact not new at all. They've been aroun for some season but never really got to do a lot of bog shows. But this season, some of these girls just started to do major shows with opening and closing priviliges all the time. All in all, this is the result of F/W 07.08 as far as i am concerned.


One of those breakthrough girls who ard finally stealing the limelight after a few seasons of smaller shows is Alyona Osmanova. After her Prada appearance last season, casting directors probably realised that this one is special. And she is! Alyona was everywhere. YSL, Dior, Calvin Klein, she even opened John Galliano with a bang! This girl is up for a more than good future!


Carolina Panoliano is a softer version of Daiane Conterato. And whoever loves Daiane, cannot not love Carolina. She is beautiful and London noticed. She was the bell of the ball in London doing everything, opening everything, closing everything and appearing at Marc by Marc. In Paris, she did Vuitton and Dries van Noten. Plus, Miuccia featured her in both her shows, which is something you want as a model. Go Carolina!

Where should I begin? Catherine McNeil has STAR written all over her. She skipped New York to do some interesting shoots that we'll probably hear about soon. She did Noir in London, which seemed alright and didn't prepare us at all for what was about to open. This Australian sexbomb was suddenly opening and closing every major show in Milan and Paris and setting foot on every other catwalk that mattered. In the recent modeling history there has been no other model with such a high profile success in her first season. So remember her name and watch out!

Diana Moldovan was one of those New York promisses. And luckily for her, she was one of the few to make it true! Diana was embraced in Milan and Paris by fashion houses such as Gucci, Jil Sander, Chanel and Nina Ricci. And who's to blame, because she is gorgeous! Apparantly more people agree on that because overall she has done 74 shows this season, which is amazing! Keep up the good work, girl!

Prada does great wonders. Irina Kulikova is one girl that noticed this. After opening Prada this girl was in demand! But we should have known after her Calvin Klein exclusive in New York. In Paris she opened and closed Antonio Berardi and Undercover. She opened Cacharel and Nina Ricci and she closed Louis Vuitton and YSL. Do you need to hear more? Ok, since you asked: this girl is beautiful! You better watch out!

Fifteen year old Johanna Jonsson made a sure impression on us modelwatchers about a year back when she appeared at Chloe and Yohji Yamamoto F/W 06.07 in Paris. We knew we were in for something good right that moment. Finally, this season it happened. She was a stunner at among others, Dior, Chanel, Galliano, Burberry, Prada and also at her Calvin Klein exclusive. I can't wait for her success to expand even more. Hopefully some nice ads will appear and perhaps Vogue Italia smells the same excitement as I do.

The second fifteen year old and the second Johanna on this list is Johanna Stickland. She showed her face last season as well where she shined on the runways of Christian Dior among others. This season she was back with a blast. A Jil Sander exclusive in Milan, appearing at Marc Jacobs and Proenza Schouler in New York and re-appearing at Dior and also at Givenchy in Paris ensures great success for this very young but very pretty girl. Probably, with age comes even more success.

Stunning Kasia Struss is one of the most beautiful newcommers of the season as far as I am concerned. Marc by Marc, Calvin Klein, Balenciaga and Dolce & Gabbana must have thought the same. With a total of 70 shows this season, she is right up there with all the established models. But what did you expect? A great walk, a great face and a very fresh beauty need to be seen and the runway is definetly the right place for it. Not to mention magazine and bilboards. Ads galore I tell ya!

Another girl that was around before but started to catch more eyes this season is Kinga Rajzak. She has a unique beauty and an amazing runway presence. If you don't believe me then check out the pictures of shows such as Dolce & Gabbanana, Alexander McQueen, Donna Karan, Lanvin, you just name it! Beautifully cute Kinga is already a runway favourite of mine and hopefully she'll be around for a long time to convince more people of this belief.

Last but not least on this list is Olga Sherer. She had appeared at several Dolce & Gabbana shows already but not untill this New York season it seemed that she had more up her sleeve than we had imagined before. She opened the one and only NYC show Marc Jacobs, so she was just bound to survive after New York. And thus it happened. As a lot of New York success failed misserably in Europe but olga reigned supreme. Appearing once again at Dolce & Gabbana of course, but also at every single other show that matters. Think in the likes of Versace, Prada, Viktor & Rolf, Lanvin and she opened Christian Dior! This flaming redhead is on a roll and this rock will keep on rolling and won't be stopping for a long time, trust me.