Models.com Looks Back at the Top Stories of the Year

As the industry settles into its annual August lull before another whirlwind fashion month, Models.com looks back on a year of conversations with the people defining where fashion is headed. Models Xiao Wen Ju, Adut Akech, Awar Odhiang, Kit Butler, Mathieu Simoneau, and Bhavitha Mandava shared the experiences behind their careers, while Karlie Kloss and i-D Editor-in-Chief Thom Bettridge discussed the magazine’s next chapter and what lies ahead for independent fashion publishing. We also sat down with Vogue Global Creative Director Raúl Martinez and hairstylist Anthony Turner to explore the creative thinking behind today’s image-making. For The Art of Collaboration, M/M Paris founders Mathias Augustyniak and Michaël Amzalag traced four decades of work built on a shared eye, while Beauty Papers’ Maxine Leonard and Valerie Wickes made the case for beauty as cultural inquiry. For our Industry Access series, Vanessa Friedman and Rachel Scott traded notes on fashion’s shifting critical landscape, while Nick Knight and Tom Wandrag revisited SHOWstudio’s radical approach to the moving image. Our annual The Graduates series introduced the next generation through Ajus Samuel, Gaye Serigne, Jiahui Zhang, Libby Taverner, Luiza Perote, Rosalieke Fuchs, and Sara Caballero. Together, these stories reflect Models.com’s ongoing commitment to documenting not only fashion’s leading figures, but the emerging talent and ideas shaping what comes next.