Allure October 2006
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That Girl: Gemma Ward
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America's Next Top Model has offered up plenty of catfights, it hasn't exactly produced any actual supermodels. Not so in Australia, where the show's equivalent discovered a bona fide star-albeit by accident. Gemma Ward, the luminous beauty on these pages, went to an audition to keep a friend company and was scooped up by a scout. Four years, over 40 magazine covers, and countless runway shows later, the 18-year-old blonde is indisputably fashion's "It" girl, with no less than Karl Lagerfeld declaring, "She really is the model of the moment."
Allure's creative director Paul Cavaco knows why: "We went through a period that was very va-va-voom, but now the pendulum has swung back. Gemma is etheral, not earthy." This otherwordly quality has attracted so many ad campaigns (Prada, Louis Vuitton, Valentino) that her agent has lost track. Photographer Michael Thompson says simply: "She's an exotic blonde," the rarest of creatures.
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