Size 10 Model Lara Stone Captivating the Runways

She looks great.....the industry should make this the official "model size" (I'm dreaming, right). I must say that she looks better in the clothes than those girls so tiny that you can see their ribs or the knees look as though they will snap in two if they walk too fast. Granted these are just my thoughts and opinions and I realize that the designers choose whom they wish to "sport their wares," but hats off to the ones who do use Lara Stone. Read the actual article below.


Lara Stone models Chanel, March 10, Hermes, March 11, Miu Miu, March 12.

Lara Stone models Balmain, March 15, Isabel Marant, March 16.

Lara Stone models Jean Paul Gautier, March 7, Givenchy, March 8, Stella McCartney, March 9.

Lara Stone models Jonathan Saunders, February 15, Marc Jacobs, February 16, Diesel Black Gold, February 17.

Lara Stone models Anna Sui, February 18, Zac Posen, February 19, Prada, March 1.

Every so often a truly original model emerges. Lara Stone is 25 – comparatively old in an industry where most are deemed past it by the time they reach their mid-twenties. She is a relatively curvaceous British size 10, with feet that measure a six (instead of sample size seven to eight), wispy fair hair and a noticeable gap between her two front teeth. Yet somehow it’s a mesmerising combination.

Stone’s unique look has designers and fashion editors swooning; Prada contracted her for a semi-exclusive catwalking deal (preventing any other designer from using Stone before she walked in its a/w 09 show), and French Vogue dedicated its entire February issue to her – marking the return of sultry, Brigitte Bardot-esque, womanly proportions. Born in Holland, Stone first emerged when she entered the Elite Model Look competition in 1999. She didn’t win, but the Elite judges glimpsed a flicker of potential in the 15-year-old, and agreed to sign her regardless. After several frustrating years her breakthrough finally came when she made it on to the books at IMG International, and a prestigious catwalk debut in Givenchy’s a/w 06 couture show followed.

This season has seen the renewal of contracts with Givenchy and Hugo Boss, and Stone has also been signed as the face of Jean Paul Gaultier and Jaeger – whose chief executive, Belinda Earl, is quick with praise for the star of its new campaign. ‘Lara is stylish, confident, chic, and most importantly she’s a real woman.’

Perhaps these defining qualities go some way towards explaining the fact that for a/w 09 Stone walked in no fewer than 14 ready-to-wear shows in 19 days, not to mention a further three in Paris last July, when she opened both Chanel’s and Jean Paul Gaultier’s haute couture shows. She might not fit the stereotype, but this certainly hasn’t stopped her from having the fashion world at her feet. Welcome to a season in the life of Lara Stone.


(Daily Telegraph U.K.)