Age: 24

Hometown: Sheffield

I was scouted: Two years ago in Manchester.

Favourite childhood memory: Snow.

Home is: I don’t have one.

Favourite place in the world: Williamsburg.

Dream destination: The Caribbean.

Favourite food: Chorizo salad.

Dream dinner date: Mary Kate & Ashley, they’re super babes.

I like my eggs: Poached with olive oil, pepper and basil on Mediterranean bread.

Favourite cartoon: Batman.

Shows I’ve walked: Lanvin, McQ, Marc by Marc Jacobs

Career highlight: The Marc by Marc Jacobs campaign

Most treasured possession: My car, Hedi.

Last thing I bought: Onion rings.

Guilty pleasure: Gossip Girl.

Happiest moment: Falling in love.

Myself in three words: Revolutionary but gangster.

Photographer Daniel Thomas Smith
Fashion Editor and words Francesca Prudente
Grooming Lara Himpelmann using DERMALOGICA & BUMBLE & BUMBLE
Model Aaron Vernon at D1
Aaron wears denim jacket by RICHARD NICOLL

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Age: 18

Hometown: Rigo, Latvia

I was scouted: I came into Elite London a year and a half ago.

My favourite childhood memory: A trip to Cairo, Egypt with my family.

Home is: Belarus.

Favourite place in the world: Israel, the Dead Sea.

Dream destination: The Great Barrier Reef, I would love to go diving there!

Favourite food: A Ukrainian soup called borsch.

Dream dinner date: Paulo Coelho, a Brazilian lyricist and novelist.

Favourite cartoon: Powerpuff Girls.

Current obsession: Bakeries, I love any kind of cake, muffin, buns…

I love to: Go sightseeing in all the different places I travel to for work.

Last lie I told: That I could cook!

Shows I’ve walked in: Clements Ribeiro, Antonio Berardi, Meadham Kirchoff, Mary Katrantzou, House of Holland…

Future plans: I want to study

Dream job: To be a hotel owner of a seven-star hotel!

Happiest moment: When something good happens that you wanted to happen but didn’t think would.

Myself in three words: Skinny, positive, excited.

Photographer Daniel Thomas Smith
Fashion Editor and words Francesca Prudente
Hair & Make up Lara Himpelmann using DERMALOGICA & BUMBLE & BUMBLE
Model Anastasija Titkoat ELITE
Anastasija wears coat by ACNE

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Age: 23

Hometown: Manchester

Where I was scouted: Three years ago when I was out and about in Manchester. I definitely enjoying it more now than when I started. I’ve now got some really good groups of friends in the industry so jobs are much more fun.

Home is: Hackney at the moment.

Favourite London hang out: Chilling in a park. London’s fun when it’s nice outside.

Favourite place in the world: Bed.

Dream destination: I want to get a motorbike and do a road trip across America.

Favourite food: I go through phases, at the moment I’m quite into Vietnamese.

I like my eggs: Poached.

Favourite movie: Dumb & Dumber, Pulp Fiction and The Big Lebowski.

Least favourite movie: A chick flick.

Favourite cartoon: Danger Mouse.

First gig: Jimmy Page and Robert Plant.

First CD I bought: Ocean Colour Scene, it was nineties Britpop time.

Music I like: Good rock ‘n’ roll, hip-hop and old school house.

Most treasured possession: Used to be a chain, but I lost it.

Last thing I bought: Milk.

Current obsession: An album by Otis G Johnson, a gospel soul guy from the seventies.

Shows I walked last season: Marc By Marc Jacobs, Paul Smith, Margaret Howell, Dries Van Noten, Alexandre Plokhov, Robert Geller, Billy Reid & Siki Im.

Myself in three words: Skinny Northern lad.

Photographer Daniel Thomas Smith
Fashion Editor and words Francesca Prudente
Grooming Lara Himpelmann using DERMALOGICA & BUMBLE & BUMBLE
Model Thomas Penfound at D1
Thomas wears polo neck shirt & jumper by PRINGLE OF SCOTLAND

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Age: 19

Hometown: Winchester

Where I was scouted: In December 2009 at the Birmingham Clothes Show.

Current obsession: Hi-tops. Also in my head I believe Matt Smith and I will have children.

Pet peeve: Undeserved arrogance.

Guilty pleasure: Sex & The City and Sean Paul.

Last lie I told: I told someone I was a really really good ballet dancer and was going to be in the next Swan Lake.

Dream job: I’d love to work in a festival food van because you would never ever be hungry, you’d meet loads of people and only have to work three months of the year.

Favourite childhood memory: Sounds a bit weird but one Christmas I was at my uncle’s house and a fire started. Luckily is wasn’t too bad but we ended up having Christmas dinner with the fireman underneath the burnt holes made by the fire.

Where is home: The Black Boy pub in Winchester, it’s full of taxidermy. It’s a fun place to go drink beer, play board games and stroke fake cats!

Favourite food: Ketchup bagel

Dream dinner date: Hugh Laurie, I just want to sit on his lap and get him to read me stories.

I like my eggs: When I moved to my own place in Brixton I couldn’t cook so I lived on fried egg sandwiches for a week. I like both sides fried, I can’t do that runny business.

Favourite movie: Dead Poets Society.

Least favourite movie: Drag Me To Hell, it’s a terrible film!

First cd I bought: Electric Avenue, I’ve still got it!

Music I love: Soul and motown, but right now I’m listening to a lot of old skool garage.

Most treasured possession: Fossilised dinosaur poo, there’s a big story behind it. It will never leave my bedside.

Career highlight: Doing a shoot at a funfair, and I did a shoot backstage at the 1234 festival, I had a mohawk and wore one of Lady Gaga’s tops. That was fun.

I would describe myself as.. I met a Scottish man at a festival, he turned around to me and said I was a romantic built on kinky foundations. I think that’s a pretty good description.

Happiest moment: Watching the sunset on a beach listening to my Pulp Fiction soundtrack and drinking free mojitos.

Photographer Daniel Thomas Smith
Fashion Editor and words Francesca Prudente
Hair & Make Up Lara Himpelmann using GUERLAIN A/W 2012 (ROSE AUX JOUES BLUSH DUO, PARURE DE LUMIERE) & BUMBLE & BUMBLE
Model Alex Rose at SELECT
Alex wears jacket by CHRISTOPHER KANE

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Age: 16
Hometown: Brockley

Where I was scouted: Six months ago, on Portobello Road. My friend was messing around in the street and accidentally spat on some guy's shoe. Whilst the guy was having a go at us, the girl he was with interrupted and asked if I'd ever modelled. Two days later I was at a casting for David Sims.

Current obsession: Peep Show.

Pet peeve: Overpriced transport, unoriginality and generic hash tagging.

Guilty pleasure: I have so many! Nicki Minaj, trashy reality TV, Twitter.

Last lie I told: What time I'd be coming home tonight.

Dream job: The cliche answer for me would be footballer, but as a kid I wanted to be an inventor. I was always pretending to make potions.

Favourite childhood memory: I really loved going to the Natural History Museum and the Science Museum. I always used to go from one to the other as they're so close to each other. I liked the games at the Science Museum.

Favourite London hang out: My garden. I've got a log cabin with a sofa and huge sound system so I pretty much live in there.

Going out or staying in: Going out, I'm always up for a party!

Favourite place in the world Before NYFW I went to a private Caribbean Island with my friends. It was the most amazing holiday I've ever been on. It's depressing I probably won't ever go on a holiday somewhere like that again.

Dream dinner date: Mila Kunis, not just because she's unbelievably hot but I like her sense of humour and that she's the voice of Meg in Family Guy. I think I would laugh a lot with her.

I like my eggs: With no attitude.

Favourite movie: Friday with Chris Tucker and Ice Cube. It's so bad it's good.

Favourite cartoon That's so difficult, it's a toss between Avatar: The Legend of Aang or Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends. Those are the winners for me.

First gig: It was either the Underage festival or when Babyshambles played at Wembley. Dizzee Rascal was the support act which I thought was a weird choice but I really enjoyed it.

Favourite song: At the moment Juicy J, Stoners Night Part 2.

Most treasured possession: My cat. I call her Babes.

Last thing I bought: Fifa 13, a coat, hat and I got some photos developed.

Shows I've walked: Prada, Jonathan Saunders, Hugo Boss, Hackett, Acne, Dries Van Noten, Nicole Farhi and Richard Nicoll.

Career highlight Opening the Prada show and meeting A$AP Rocky. I had a really nice conversation with him, which was cool.

Future plans: I'm currently doing my A Levels so finishing them, also I'd like to keep doing this and see where I end up!

Am I happy? Extremely.

Photographer Daniel Thomas Smith
Fashion Editor and words Francesca Prudente
Hair & Make Up Lara Himpelmann using GUERLAIN A/W 2012 (ROSE AUX JOUES BLUSH DUO, PARURE DE LUMIERE) & BUMBLE & BUMBLE
Model Ben Allen at SELECT
Ben wears jumper by CHRISTOPHER SHANNON

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