Rasmus Holm, 17, Esbjerg, Denmark
Holm had already made it to the semifinals of his native Denmark’s Elite Model Look competition two years ago and quit before being scouted again on Facebook and deciding to go for it earlier this spring. “I thought it would be fun to try out,” he says. “I didn’t expect it to get this far though.” After making his debut in JW Anderson’s show in London, he booked Dior Homme, Louis Vuitton, and Haider Ackermann in Paris. “I was pretty nervous,” he recalls of his first show, “but then when I was done, it felt so wonderful with everyone clapping and saying how great it was.” A recent high school graduate, Holm says he had already planned to take the year off before returning to law school, and is glad modeling has come up to keep him occupied, even if it is still all so new to him that he hasn’t quite had a chance to think about the path ahead. “I’m not really sure yet, but I think I’m going to model full time,” he says, “because otherwise I’d just have a whole year where I’m not going to do anything.”
