Thursday, 31 March 2011

Barbara Palvin on the catwalk for Louis Vuitton, autumn/winter 2010-1


(Barbara Palvin on the catwalk for Louis Vuitton, autumn/winter 2010-1)
AS WE have said before (see Lisanne de Jong forevidence), any girl chosen by Miuccia Prada to walk exclusively for the label is one to watch - and the Vogue team are in agreement that this season's Prada exclusive, Barbara Palvin, is definitely something special.
"We chose Barbara because she is absolutely exquisite looking a cross between a young Brooke Shields and Natalia Vodianova," Vogue's Miranda Almond told us. "She was an absolute professional too, and very confident for such a new model. Straight after our shoot she was due to go and meet Steven Meisel who I am sure will have snapped her up and will project her into supermodel status. We shot her for a surfer girl style story for the June issue."
Still only 17, Palvin hails from Budapest and was discovered at just 13-years-old despite being smaller than the average catwalk model at just 5' 9". After her exclusive turn for Prada in Milan the teenager headed to Paris where she took to the catwalk for Miu Miu, Giles and Nina Ricci before lining up alongside supermodels including Elle Macpherson and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley for Louis Vuitton.