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modelsRory Cooper, 21, Shrewsbury, England
Cooper was a baker and prep cook at a local restaurant when he was approached by two women at the Reading Festival last summer who asked if he was a model. “I thought they were joking, to be honest,” he laughs. “I thought they wanted some money from me.” He made his way down to London three weeks after and, two weeks later, found himself in Paris, his favorite out of the European fashion cities. “There’s a lot of culture here, beautiful buildings everywhere, and a lot of history,” he says. A guitarist and avid reader, Cooper made his catwalk début in Gucci’s powerful Fall 2015 show in January and had the dual windfall of opening both Louis Vuitton and Dior Homme, before walking for Burberry, Valentino, Jil Sander, Craig Green, and Topman as well this summer, along with appearing in Dior’s Prefall lookbook. With his future plans up in the air, he says he is just enjoying all the new turns as they come. “I haven’t got any idea what I’m going to do next,” he says. “Just travel and experience life.”