Finnlay Davis, 17, London
It took getting scouted twice for Davis to finally decide to give modeling a try, first after being stopped while on the Overground on the way home from school, then at a music festival. “I laughed,” he recalls of his first reaction. “I didn’t believe that anything would come from it. It was amusing.” But in the year since, Davis has more than proven himself wrong, walking for Prada, Dior Homme, Louis Vuitton, Valentino, JW Anderson, Jil Sander, Raf Simons, Gucci, Hermès, and Lanvin, and appearing in Prada’s new Prefall campaign by Steven Meisel. A student of graphic design, he says that the best thing about modeling is the people he gets to work with. “It’s an amazing opportunity to have,” he explains. “Everyone you meet is there for a reason, and they’re really inspiring.”
