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Catherine McNeil
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I think she’s a gorgeous girl with a versatile look. 
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Wholesome appeal of McNeil
One to watch ... Australian model Catherine McNeil once held aspirations to be a motor mechanic / The Sunday Telegraph
AS soon as the influential New York Times tags a model "the one to watch" and the same girl goes on to shine in 35 runway shows in Paris and Milan, she is definitely a star on the rise.
Seventeen-year-old Australian model Catherine McNeil has been already swept up in the uber model world after her first season on the fashion-show circuit.
Looking wholesome and romantic, Catherine has captured a new, more glamorous zeitgeist.
And it's unlike the wide-set-eyed alien look personified and made famous by the other Aussie cutie, Gemma Ward.
Catherine, who hails from the Queensland suburb of Logan, had aspirations to be a mechanic, but chances are she has made more money in three weeks than she would have from her aborted three-year apprenticeship.
"I didn't really like school, so I had plans to be a mechanic because I really love machines,'' the heavy metal-loving teen told me yesterday from New York.
"I started modelling when I won the 2003 Girlfriend Magazine Model Search while I was still at school.
"I lived between Brisbane and the Gold Coast and I came down to Sydney for Fashion Week and some advertising campaigns.''
At the start of 2006 Catherine decided to refocus her life and move to Sydney with the Chic model agency.
She appeared in campaigns for Zimmerman, Cue, Simona, Alannah Hill, Myer, Colorado and Myer as well as appearing in editorials for Vogue, Harper's and Madison.
"This January, I went with my grandmother to New York to meet with the agency, Next, and soon after I was flown to Paris to meet with (revered photographer) Mario Testino,'' Catherine said.
"I've been travelling so much my four-year-old sister thinks I live at the airport.''
Mario booked Catherine immediately for D&G and Hugo Boss campaigns and put her under a six-month exclusive editorial contract.
It was then off to Milan, where she made her international catwalk debut to work runway shows for Roberto Cavalli, Etro, Pucci, Versace and Fendi before heading to Paris for Dior, Valentino, Stella McCartney, Christian Lacroix, Yves Saint Laurent, Alexander McQueen, Chanel and Balenciaga.
Phew!
"It became a bit of blur doing so many shows, but if there was one designer I really liked wearing it was Stella McCartney,'' Catherine said.
Catherine was also the first model to appear on Riccardo Tisci's show for Givenchy, one of the Paris season's hottest tickets.
"I live for that girl,'' boasted Lauren Goodman, the fashion director of Conde Nast's Domino magazine, a sentiment embraced by Brana Wolf of US Harper's Bazaar.
"She's so different from the Russians,'' Ms Wolf told the New York Times.
"She's tall, for one thing, and at the moment there's a tall-girl trend, and Ms McNeil also walks well,'' Ms Wolf added.
Just watch out for more of Our Catherine
Wholesome appeal of McNeil
One to watch ... Australian model Catherine McNeil once held aspirations to be a motor mechanic / The Sunday Telegraph
AS soon as the influential New York Times tags a model "the one to watch" and the same girl goes on to shine in 35 runway shows in Paris and Milan, she is definitely a star on the rise.
Seventeen-year-old Australian model Catherine McNeil has been already swept up in the uber model world after her first season on the fashion-show circuit.
Looking wholesome and romantic, Catherine has captured a new, more glamorous zeitgeist.
And it's unlike the wide-set-eyed alien look personified and made famous by the other Aussie cutie, Gemma Ward.
Catherine, who hails from the Queensland suburb of Logan, had aspirations to be a mechanic, but chances are she has made more money in three weeks than she would have from her aborted three-year apprenticeship.
"I didn't really like school, so I had plans to be a mechanic because I really love machines,'' the heavy metal-loving teen told me yesterday from New York.
"I started modelling when I won the 2003 Girlfriend Magazine Model Search while I was still at school.
"I lived between Brisbane and the Gold Coast and I came down to Sydney for Fashion Week and some advertising campaigns.''
At the start of 2006 Catherine decided to refocus her life and move to Sydney with the Chic model agency.
She appeared in campaigns for Zimmerman, Cue, Simona, Alannah Hill, Myer, Colorado and Myer as well as appearing in editorials for Vogue, Harper's and Madison.
"This January, I went with my grandmother to New York to meet with the agency, Next, and soon after I was flown to Paris to meet with (revered photographer) Mario Testino,'' Catherine said.
"I've been travelling so much my four-year-old sister thinks I live at the airport.''
Mario booked Catherine immediately for D&G and Hugo Boss campaigns and put her under a six-month exclusive editorial contract.
It was then off to Milan, where she made her international catwalk debut to work runway shows for Roberto Cavalli, Etro, Pucci, Versace and Fendi before heading to Paris for Dior, Valentino, Stella McCartney, Christian Lacroix, Yves Saint Laurent, Alexander McQueen, Chanel and Balenciaga.
Phew!
"It became a bit of blur doing so many shows, but if there was one designer I really liked wearing it was Stella McCartney,'' Catherine said.
Catherine was also the first model to appear on Riccardo Tisci's show for Givenchy, one of the Paris season's hottest tickets.
"I live for that girl,'' boasted Lauren Goodman, the fashion director of Conde Nast's Domino magazine, a sentiment embraced by Brana Wolf of US Harper's Bazaar.
"She's so different from the Russians,'' Ms Wolf told the New York Times.
"She's tall, for one thing, and at the moment there's a tall-girl trend, and Ms McNeil also walks well,'' Ms Wolf added.
Just watch out for more of Our Catherine
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Catherine McNeil at the Hermes show.
After New York Fashion Week, Fashion Police predicted Queensland model Catherine McNeil (picturedc) would be the face to watch this year. You couldn't miss her in Milan and Paris. The 17-year-old was booked for more than 30 shows in two weeks including Missoni, Fendi, Versace, Viktor & Rolf, Dior, Balenciaga, Jean Paul Gaultier, Valentino, Christian Lacroix, Givenchy, Stella McCartney, Lanvin, Hermes and Chanel. Fashion Police spoke to McNeil briefly between shows and she was a little overwhelmed and exhausted by her schedule. "It's just so full on. At the moment I don't have any time, unless it is late at night." McNeil is signed with Next models in New York. An IMG models staffer predicts McNeil could be the next Elle Macpherson "as long as she's not over-exposed. The fashion industry likes a bit of exclusivity."
After New York Fashion Week, Fashion Police predicted Queensland model Catherine McNeil (picturedc) would be the face to watch this year. You couldn't miss her in Milan and Paris. The 17-year-old was booked for more than 30 shows in two weeks including Missoni, Fendi, Versace, Viktor & Rolf, Dior, Balenciaga, Jean Paul Gaultier, Valentino, Christian Lacroix, Givenchy, Stella McCartney, Lanvin, Hermes and Chanel. Fashion Police spoke to McNeil briefly between shows and she was a little overwhelmed and exhausted by her schedule. "It's just so full on. At the moment I don't have any time, unless it is late at night." McNeil is signed with Next models in New York. An IMG models staffer predicts McNeil could be the next Elle Macpherson "as long as she's not over-exposed. The fashion industry likes a bit of exclusivity."
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miss_pepa said:
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that's so true loveroffashion
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i can not get over her body
miss_pepa said:I laughed so much when I read this in the paper today.
I just cant see her as a mechanic. Although I dont doubt that she would still look breathtaking in a grease covered jumpsuit!
maybe she meant mechanical engineering? LOL
she is so gorgeous!! she could convince me to turn str8 LOL
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I just can't beleive she is 17... my mind won't get around it!
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she is amazing, she is doing really well! and setting a new trend..!
Shes not 17.
Shes not 17.
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she's wonderful
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^ Me too! 
