Vogue: Model From Around The World Celebrate Today's Global Runway In Gorgeous Mosaic Of Denim

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Models From Around the World Celebrate Today’s Global Runway—in a Gorgeous Mosaic of Denim Design remake by Group 1 auditor by Fanisa Maghfira Photography by Mutiara Halizah Editied by Amalia Ditya Ningsih

ABOUT VOGUE ON A BRISK MORNING IN EARLY JANUARY, the setting is ostensibly a photo studio in midtown Manhattan—though it could just as well be an arrivals terminal at JFK. Adut Akech, the gorgeous, gap-toothed South Sudanese–Australian model, has just arrived, carry-on in tow, after a 30-hour flight from her hometown of Adelaide. French model and engineering student Mariam de Vinzelle is nestled on the sofa, her head buried in a pile of textbooks as she studies for the classes she’ll take in Paris later in the week. Above the hum of hairdryers, models Jill Kortleve and Imaan Hammam—both transplants to New York from the Netherlands—can be heard chatting in Dutch. “Where else can you walk into a place and find people from all over the world?” observes Kaia Gerber—one of the only American models in the room. “If you put a pin on a globe for every model, the whole thing would just light up.”

While the geographical sweep of runway stars was once drawn along narrow lines in which nationality, ethnicity, and race were often reduced to passing trends, there is a real sense today that fashion is, at long last, embracing an idea of beauty that encompasses the entire world. Phrases once used to crassly compartmentalize models—from the “Brazilian bombshell” to the “all-American beauty”—no longer fit, and the wave of identically cast Eastern European faces that dominated the runways in the early aughts has given way to a new generation of diverse international characters with multilayered identities. At a time when many political leaders both here and abroad are increasingly looking inward—seemingly more concerned with building walls and policing borders than looking outside them— this group of models suggests a more expansive and inclusive way of seeing the world.

As the fashion industry continues to address its shortcomings in the wake of #MeToo, and the conversation around the health and well-being of models continues to open up, the young women on these pages are raising their voices and asserting their individuality, their perspective, and their points of view. Among them you’ll find Ugbad Abdi, the Somali-born teenager from Iowa who’s challenging stereotypes about Muslim women, and Adesuwa Aighewi, whose passion for ethical fashion is informed by her West African, East Asian, and Southeast Asian heritage.

Perhaps no one epitomizes the moment more than the formidable Akech, who used her turn at December’s Fashion Awards in London—where she was named Model of the Year—as an opportunity to advocate for the rights of her fellow refugees. Like many of her peers, she sees modeling as a stepping-stone to being a more conscious presence in the world. “I have a real passion for modeling and fashion, but more than that, being in this industry has allowed me to have a platform to speak on the things that I really believe in,” she says. “Seeing the impact of my words and actions on the people around me is really what matters most.”

It’s in that spirit of global collaboration that this portfolio was created. The models photographed here—a total of 30 in the digital version of this story—represent 25 international editions of Vogue, and a far-reaching tapestry of nations beyond.

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Liu Wen China

“I’ve traveled all over the world to do this job, and it’s always a learning process,” says Wen, 32, who has been called China’s first supermodel. “Fashion has the ability to bring together people from so many different points of view and places—and creating spaces for that kind of cultural exchange is more important now than ever.”

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Fran Summers United Kingdom

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“Diversity and inclusion are everybody’s responsibility,” says Summers, 20, who grew up in rural Yorkshire and lives in London. “All my life I’ve seen people who look like me—but what about other people? It’s so important for people to feel like they see themselves—and I’ve always felt that it’s important to be an ally.”

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Kaia Gerber United States

The fact that young voters are poised to play a crucial role in shaping the out come of the 2020 elections is not something that’s lost on Gerber. “With all the information that’s out there, we can’t claim ignorance anymore,” says Gerber, who turned 18 last September. “My generation sees it as their duty. to educate themselves, to speak up—we won’t be silenced by anyone.” Gerber’s already thinking hard on her candidate of choice, a political awakening sparked when she attended the March for Our Lives rally in Los Angeles two years ago. Her very public stance on gun control prompted an emotional outpouring of support on social media. “We have ways of communicating with each other now that we didn’t have before,” says Gerber, whose Instagram following is over five million strong, exceeding even that of her supermodel mother, Cindy Crawford.

“When you have a big platform, it seems irresponsible not to use it for good.”

Paco Rabanne jacket and jeans.Photographed by Tyler Mitchell, Vogue, April 2020

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Pasha Harulia Ukraine

Eschewing her Indiana Jones-inspired plans to become “a detective or a scientist or an archaeologist,” Harulia, 20, made her runway debut in Paris during the fall 2016 shows, snapping up exclusive contracts “with Balenciaga and Vetements. But the way there wasn’t without its challenges: Born and raised in Crimea, Harlulia and her family fled to Kiev when the area became occupied by Russia in 2014. “That was a stressful time,” she admits. It was tough. But we’re good now.” Given the knotty political landscape at home, Harulia was surprised by her own autonomy when she began working as a model. “I thought when you have a contract, you have to just do what you’re told, but it’s not like that,” she says. “I felt like I could create something. I’m not just the blank space for other people’s art.”

Ralph Lauren denim slip dress. American Ap’ parel T-shirt. R13 boots.Photographed by Tyler Mitchell, Vogue, April 2020

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Daniela Kocianova Czech Republic

As a girl in northeastern Czechia, “the only sort of modeling I heard about had girls with long hair and bigger boobs,” Kocianova recalls. She wanted nothing to do with it—that is, until her mother picked her up from a volleyball match one day and took her to a local. shopping mall. Her soon-to-be agency was holding a contest there, and “somehow they forced me to sign up, and I won,” Kocianova says. She was off to Singapore for a job in fairly short order, and later walked for Phoebe Philo’s Céline (where she was also the fitting model for a while), Jil Sander, Comme des Garçons, and others. Now 29, Kocianova notes that her peers look a lot different than they did five years ago—not to mention twelve, when she was first getting started. “I’m really happy that you can see all the other beautiful girls from all over the world,” she says. “It took a long time.”

Nili Lotan silk slip. Marine Serre vest. R13 boots.Photographed by Tyler Mitchell, Vogue, April 2020

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Maria Miguel Portugal

An athlete since childhood, Miguel had long been keen to play professional soccer—“I was always super competitive”—when she started being courted by model scouts. She found herself more than ready to rise to the challenge of modeling: “It was something new, and it went really well, so I kept doing it,” she says. And though the multicultural melee of the runway felt familiar—born in Braga, Miguel, now 19, was schooled in both Angola and England, making friends “from all over the world”—being in front of a camera took some getting used to.

“I was like a little boy, so I was super uncomfortable,” she says with a laugh.

Brock Collection top. Banana Republic T-shirt.

Dior skirt. Prada sandals.Photographed by Tyler Mitchell, Vogue, April 2020

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Adut Akech South Sudan, Australia

In a little over three years, Akech has achieved just about everything you would expect to find on a model’s bucket list: campaigns for the likes of Valentino and Saint Laurent, countless magazine covers (14 of them for various Vogue editions around the world), turns on almost every major runway—she even landed the coveted finale spot as the bride in Chanel’s fall 2018 couture show. But more than being fashion’s most recognizable new face, the 20-year-old has emerged as one of the industry’s most important new voices. “Before I’m anything else, I am a refugee, and I’m so proud of that,” says the Brooklyn-based model, who was born in the wartorn area that is now South Sudan and raised in Kakuma, Kenya, in one of the world’s largest refugee camps, before moving to Australia with her family when she was eight. “I want to educate people on what that really means.”

Akech did exactly that last December at The Fashion Awards in London—where she was named Model of the Year—with an impassioned speech that shed light on her extraordinary story and underscored the importance of representation in the industry. She’s now harnessing her influence to effect change in the wider world: When the bushfires broke out in Australia and she and four of her siblings were forced to evacuate their home in Adelaide, Akech called on the help of the fashion community to support fundraising efforts. “I wouldn’t use the words role model to describe myself,” says Akech. “I’m just doing and saying what I know best.”

Dries Van Noten jacket and tank top.

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Mika Schneider France, Japan

Schneider was living in India last year when she signed with a Japanese agency (and was discovered by a Parisian modeling agent a year later on Instagram), making her first whistle-stop tour of the shows in Milan and Paris this past September. “I feel as if growing up all over the world has made my identity much like a patchwork,” says Schneider, 18, who was born to a Japanese mother and French father and is now based in Paris. “Each place and experience has shaped me differently.”

Marc Jacobs blouse and jeans.Photographed by Tyler Mitchell, Vogue, April 2020

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