Hugh Laughton-Scott, 17, London
Londoner Laughton-Scott has Facebook to thank for his newfound success, having been discovered about a year ago through a mutual friend he shares with the daughter of Sarah Doukas. With a year left in school, he made a big impression in his first show season this summer, starting off with a nerve-wracking exclusive for Burberry. “I was absolutely sh*tting myself before the show,” he laughs. “I was just thinking of everything that could go wrong—everything, like falling on my face, slipping on the runway, accidentally hitting Lewis Hamilton in the face with my bag. Obviously it went fine, inevitably. It’s just walking.” Laughton-Scott says he enjoyed getting to experience Milan and Paris properly this past month—especially the coffee and pasta in the former—in between castings and fittings and shows for Dior Homme, Fendi, Jil Sander, Gucci, and Phillip Lim. His current plan is to take a gap year after finishing school to model before returning to university, either for political science or a course in religion, politics, and society, a balancing act that promises to be demanding. “I’ve still kind of got the same plans, I’m just trying to do both at the same time,” he says, “which is proving hectic.”
