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#628 the first pic of her in the center is so epic
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Compared to other models, her season wasn't that amazing. Though she did do well to book some top shows. If she steers away from doing VS Pink and other lame, career-killing things, sculpting herself into this commercial model, it should be alright.
"@talishine caught up with @monnycox after the @LIFEwithBIRDlwb fashion show @Golightly_PR
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/schoolgirl-to-star/story-fn6b3v4f-1226341576330
Schoolgirl to star
SIX months ago, nobody had heard the name Montana Cox outside of her friends and family.
She was happily ensconsed in her Year 12 studies at Eltham College in Melbourne. Netball practice took up three hours a day, five days a week.
Then Australia's Next Top Model happened. The self-confessed "dark horse" of the competition started garnering praise from photographers, editors and designers. And then - she took the title.
The six months since that night in October have been a blur and while most Australian models start slowly, Cox has done the reverse - being dropped straight in at the deep end.
With just one catwalk show up her sleeve for David Jones in Sydney, "I jumped on a plane to go over to Paris and Milan", Cox says. "It's crazy, it just happened so quickly."
And now she finds herself in the very enviable and rather odd position of looking down the catwalks of her first Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Australia, having already walked for the likes of Lanvin, Chanel, Christian Dior, Kenzo and Pucci.
She heads back to Paris after Fashion Week (in Sydney from tomorrow to Friday) to walk for Chanel in Versailles.
And Cox is shaping up to be one of the busiest models this week, with show highlights including Romance Was Born, Maticevski, Gary Bigeni, Manning Cartell, Ksubi and Ginger & Smart.
"I'm really excited, it's my first time at Australian Fashion Week," Cox says.
It's good to know that even at this early point in her career, Cox was quick to pick out the right highlights from her international sojourn. "Meeting Karl (Lagerfeld) and Anna (Wintour)," Cox says. "Karl is really intimidating, but he really knows his stuff. Anna bumped into me and was, like, 'Sorry, darling'. I was, like, 'You can run in to me any time'."
Cox has a very good sense of humour and her groundedness is as striking as those blue eyes and impossibly long legs.
But the minute the lens is focused on her, she's straight down to business, switching from sweet to sultry in the click of a shutter.
"I had no experience at all," the 18-year-old says of her pre-ANTM days.
"(Modelling) had been in the back of my head, but I had no idea how to pursue it. I'd never done any photo shoots. I learned it all on Top Model. It's really intense."
Kathy Ward of Chic Management, which looks after Cox's career in Australia, calls ANTM "model boot camp because for four months they're doing shoot after shoot after shoot, so they're really learning very quickly how to move in front of the camera, how to take direction. It really gives the girls a chance to fast track their career."
Since moving from Melbourne to Sydney's eastern suburbs last year, Cox shares a house with two male friends.
"I keep them in line," she adds, laughing.
And she maintains that the glamour is definitely for work only. "I'm a real jeans girl, just black skinny jeans and boots and a T-shirt and I'm done."
Although modelling is thought of as glamorous, it does have its downside, as Cox is learning.
"It's not as glamorous as people expect," she says. "They think you jet off on a plane and you go in the show. But you're waiting around for three hours backstage, and getting pushed and prodded and told, 'Go here, go here'." So what does the future hold? "It can be a short-lived career," says Cox. "Maybe something in production or cinematography."
I suggest that I can see her as a TV presenter. She considers this. "That could be in the future," she says. "Start in TV, end in TV."
dailytelegraph.com.au