"Everybody here is sooo young !" exclaims Karolina Kurkova, the incandescent beauty from the Czech Republic as make-up artist Jamie Melbourne applies the first swipe of her base. Half the room turns to look at her in amusement, the other half smiling in gratitude.

A sixteen year old calling the twenty and thirtysomethings gathered here today to style, paint, primp, gloss and photograph her young? So sweet! Then it dawns. The young DNA beauty has never had to go through the classic drudgery of test shoots with starving young photographers on dodgy subway platforms with the back car doubling as a changing room.

For this achingly beautiful young blonde, her career has started essentially, at the top. And life at the top to date has been with the modelmakers, the very powerful, the severely established.

Since her most recent bookings have been with power photographers like Patrick Demarchelier, Irving Penn (lensing her for American Vogue), Gilles Bensimon (highlighting her in a special Azzedine Alia story for Elle )and Enrique Badulescu (shooting her for UK Vogue, ), the motley MODELS.com crew in baggy jeans and sneakers, fiddling with scooters and skateboards must indeed look like verifiable juveniles.