Unless you've been asleep or had your head stuck in a hole for the last year, you will have seen this woman,
gracing the covers of numerous glossy magazines, filling the pages with fierce poses and strutting the catwalk like she was made to be a model. Well, that's because Agyness Deyn was made to be a model. She's leggy; at 5”8 that's not massive, but boy does she work that 5”8 of body. Flat, with sharp angles and dark eyebrows. She is casual, meaningful. Androgynous to the point of extremity, she is a beautiful boy and a desirable girl. Agyness is a tomboy ideal to rival her predecessors of Erin O'Connor et al.
There is little Agyness hasn't done, which for a chippy from Manchester isn't so bad. Agyness strolled into the modelling industry in 2007 at the age of 23, immediately standing out from the ever increasing foreign crowd with cropped white blonde hair, which has now become a signature feature of her look, and a bright personality to match. One of the first big campaigns she did was for Armani, where her androgynous good looks were brought out to model for print ads.
After that, there was no going back and she has now been featured in international campaigns and runway shows, including Burberry (print ads shown in last 2 photos above), House of Holland, Vivienne Westwood, Anna Sui, Paul Smith and New Look. Her covers include Vogue, i-D, Sunday Times, Pop, Grazia, Vogue Italia, Vogue USA and The Observer Woman's supplement. Outside of modelling, Agyness has been featured on the single Who by 5 o'clock heroes and is also in the video. Seeing as she studied music and drama at college in Hull, the fact that she can sing comes as absolutely no surprise and I'm sure some sort of acting career will follow before too long.
In May 2008, Agyness guest edited i-D magazine, which was released as a special collectors edition with six different covers. The issue was great; as a fan of the model, I was chuffed to get a chunky magazine through my door crammed with gorgeous pictures of her and the influential people in her life.
If Agyness was a boy, she would probably be Luke Worrall. The two blonde, British models are friends, and have posed together for countless shots, including being featured as 'influential Londoners' in D&C magazine (top above). Looking spookily alike, it's a pleasure to watch the pair work together and damn, if they ever had children they would be freakishly good looking. Both are signed to British modelling agency Models1 and have seem equal success in their careers as page turners.
At the moment Aggy is taking a break from the hustle and bustle of fashion but no doubt will return with a bang in time for the Spring collections of 2009. She's a one off, and her star dust is going to take a hell of a lot of rubbing off if anyone is ever going to challenge the new face of fashion.
