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Sarah Ann Macklin

Model Call: Sarah Ann Macklin
By LAUREN MCCARTHY


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As the girlfriend of the world’s highest-paid male model, David Gandy, one might expect some animosity toward British up-and-comer Sarah Ann Macklin. But then you meet her. Between her bright brown eyes and irresistible accent, it’s hard not to fall for Macklin. In addition to being Matthew Williamson’s latest muse, the 23-year-old brunette has already appeared in publications such as Esquire and Vogue Japan. WWD sat down with the W-repped model pre-hurricane to discuss her rising career.

WWD: How does New York compare to London?
Sarah Ann Macklin: I love New York. I’m a real home girl. When I travel to Paris and Milan, it’s nice, but I just really miss home. I came to New York, and I don’t know what it is, but I just didn’t want to leave. It really sucked me in. I love the people here; I love the buzz it has. I can’t put my finger on it, but there’s just something about New York.

WWD: How did you first meet Matthew Williamson?
S.A.M.: We met years and years ago at the Elle Style Awards. At the beginning of this year, I saw him at an Esquire party for the BAFTAs. We started catching up, and we just get on really well. We were talking and drinking lots of Champagne, then he started telling me about this massive film, “XV,” for his 15th-year anniversary, and how he really wanted me to be a part of it. So we started working together really closely. Any opportunity to wear his dresses, I will.

WWD: What was it like to work on the film?
S.A.M.: It’s me, Sienna Miller and Poppy Delevigne. We did it all in one day. We had a huge cast of the National English Ballet dancers, like 15 of them, and they were all wearing creations from over his 15 years. I haven’t actually seen the final cut yet. The whole concept is we’re running through the country manor and going through all the designs and eras. It literally just got finished four days ago. He also designed me, Sienna and Poppy a dress [to wear in the film]. It’s a one-off piece.

WWD: Did you get to keep the dress?
S.A.M.: I haven’t been able to keep it, although I have been given a lot of beautiful things. I think they might be producing [the dresses] for the next collection, so they’re holding on to it. My dress is blue and purple embellished, and it goes all the way to the floor. It has a massive drop back. I saw it and was like, “He knows me so well. It’s perfect!”

WWD: Is there anyone else in the industry that you’d love to work with?
S.A.M.: There are a lot of photographers. I’d love to work with Steven Meisel. I love photography. When I shot with Bruce Weber, he shot on film, and it just fascinates me. I’d love to work with Meisel and [Mario] Testino. I just think to work with them would be an honor.

WWD: How do you make time for your relationship with David Gandy when you both have busy modeling careers to balance?
S.A.M.: Our schedules are both crazy, but it’s nice that we can meet in New York and meet in Paris and meet in L.A. When you work in the same industry, you understand each other’s work.

WWD: David walked in the fashion tribute at the Olympic Closing Ceremonies alongside Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell. Did you get to attend?
S.A.M.: I was so gutted, because I had a ticket and I couldn’t go since I was working away. I watched him on TV, and I was so proud of him. He looked incredible. They all looked incredible. I love that they incorporated fashion into the Olympics. They incorporated so many other British things, and the British fashion industry is huge, so it was nice that they showed that.

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Woman We Love | Sarah Ann Macklin

Photography by Lee Broomfield
Fashion by Catherine Hayward
Words by Max Olesker

Sarah Ann Macklin is not just the UK’s fastest rising model, she’s also our entertainment director’s baby sister. So stop looking at her like that. Seriously – she’s family.



Sarah Ann Macklin is almost certainly Portsmouth’s most glamorous export. “I got spotted in a queue at a festival when I was 17,” she says. “And suddenly I was in London, meeting all these agencies.”

This seems inevitable. An impossibly svelte 5ft 9in, with smouldering brown eyes and dramatic cheekbones, Macklin was surely destined for more than her part-time job folding T-shirts at Burton (Commercial Road branch).

“I signed with Select [the modelling agency], and I got my first job that same afternoon — it was amazing!” Now 23, Macklin’s career is skyrocketing — she has been shot by Bruce Weber for Abercrombie & Fitch, modelled for Burberry, and recently appeared in the pages of Japanese Vogue alongside her boyfriend, David Gandy.

Together, they make an implausibly attractive couple — but where did the country’s hottest young model and the world’s highest paid male supermodel get together?

Thanks to her older brother’s role as Esquire’s entertainment director, it was, of course, at one of this magazine’s events. “We’d known each other for a few years,” she says, “but at your Bafta party, we just clicked…”

Their first date was the glamorous, Jenga-fuelled evening you’d expect. Wait, what? “Yep, we ended up playing six rounds of Jenga!” Macklin dissolves into laughter. “It actually got quite competitive.” Their working lives seem incredibly fast-paced — they both juggle international careers, while Macklin has recently signed with an acting agent — but she swears their home lives are “completely normal”, generally revolving around “walks in the country, and dogs”.

And then, inevitably, Macklin’s phone rings and she’s off — into Soho, for her next appointment, her next job, and her next party. Portsmouth seems such a long way away.




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Where are you right now?
At home

What is your current state of mind?
Relaxed, having spent Christmas with the family and indulging in lots of home cooking!

Where do you feel most at home?
My parents house in Hampshire, by the sea

What’s the best advice you’ve ever been given?
Always stay true to yourself, and anything is possible. Keep your friends and family close and they will guide you.

What is your greatest fear?
Not being good enough, or achieving enough in life.

Which living person do you most admire?
My mum

What is your greatest extravagance?
My flat in South West London

What was the last thing you bought?
An Acne T-shirt and white Americano

What is your most treasured possession?
My dog, Daisy. We grew up together

What as the last film you watched?
TV film The Girl. I thought Sienna Miller was exceptional. Before that, Skyfall, which I loved

If your life could be a film, which would it be?
Dirty Dancing, isn’t that any girls dream? I’m a romantic at heart….

What makes you laugh?
My 1 year old niece, she’s such a rascal

What makes you cry?
Other people’s determination to achieve or overcome a situation, always overwhelms me. The Olympics and especially the London Marathon, where people put themselves through such pain for great causes.

What’s on your iPod?
The Who, Emeli Sande, Michael Jackson, Rihanna, Sade and Snow Patrol.

What sites do you visit everyday?
My local coffee shop, the London Underground and Instagram

Which question do you most dread being asked?
Where do you see yourself in 10 years time?
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In JW Anderson

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In JW Anderson

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in Burberry SS 13

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She's one of the biggest names coming out of the U.K.: Matthew Williamson has already deemed her his muse, and she's walking exclusively for his collection in London this season. The Brit beauty is no stranger to being in front of the lens, having already shot with Bruce Weber for Abercrombie & Fitch and a recent lookbook for Burberry. Not bad for a 23-year-old originally from Portsmouth.

Agency: Women
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PHOTOGRAPHER / Jon Compson at Patricia McMahon
FASHION DIRECTOR / Tilly Hardy
MAKE-UP / Jo Frost at CLM Hair and Make up using M.A.C Cosmetics
HAIR / Bianca Tuovi at CLM Hair and Make up using Bumble and Bumble
SET DESIGN / Dragonfly Scenery by Patricia McMahon
MODEL / Sarah-Ann at Select Model Management
PHOTOGRAPHER ASSISTANT / Liam Aylott and Oliver Birta
FASHION ASSISTANT / Cristo Johns, Millie Rich and Lauren Fisher
STUDIO / Studio Spaces
RETOUCH / Chris Roome at Happy Finish

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Sarah Ann Macklin doesn’t take herself too seriously. And that’s a good thing. These days, in the race for British models to generate press and nab a good name for themselves it’s all about marketing yourself through your personality as well as your looks. Naturally, you’ve got to do your job well but you’ve got to be fun too. After all, there’s a Twitter audience out there waiting to follow you and it’s them you’ve got to keep entertained if you want to hit the big time.

Not that Miss Sarah Ann Macklin needs to worry about any of that. The 23-year-old arrives on the set of our North London shoot location a whirlwind of friendliness, excitement and of course, youthfully smoldering beauty that immediately justifies the hype she’s been garnering recently as one of Britain’s hottest and most versatile models. This is the girl who can slip into lingerie and work the cameras for a leading men's magazine one minute, and then appear in short films for legendary fashion photographer Bruce Weber in the next. For a girl from Portsmouth who never intended to wind up a model, that’s not too shabby.

There’s also the fact that she’s girlfriend to David Gandy, the British male supermodel who’s enjoying all sorts of high-calibre industry success, as well as the attention of magazine readers across the world. Whilst questions about him are strictly off-limits (hey, the girl enjoys her privacy) I can’t help but wonder what a guy would have to do to get her attention, to get her seal of approval- especially if he didn’t look like Gandy. “Well, firstly just avoid chat-up lines altogether,” she laughs as she whips off her winter weather armor and sits down to let our stylist kit her out “Never try and put on an act. I can’t bear it when people aren’t themselves. It sounds corny but it’s honestly true that if you can make someone laugh you can easily steal their heart”.

With Sarah, it’s clear that the laughs are important especially when it comes to her career. “I think it’s so important to laugh at yourself,” she explains as she tucks into a giant mug of tea (builders not herbal) “there is always rejection in this industry, so if you can do that you’ll be fine. There’s also so many personalities out there that I feel like if I can make people laugh, it just makes things easier. I’ve always been outgoing and I like to take that to set. I just want everyone to enjoy themselves.”

Laughs aside, 2013 is about to take a serious turn for Sarah Ann Macklin. Whilst 2012 saw her build up quite the C.V working on fashion editorials as well as campaigns, it’s this year that sees things hit the next level. The day of our shoot she is going through the list of what she needs to pack for that evening’s departure to New York for a month long work trip- where she’ll arrive just in time for New York Fashion week commitments. Having already been shot by Weber and also posed alongside Victoria’s Secret Angel Elsa Hosk, it's clear that America is showing interest in her diversity. And why wouldn’t they? This is the girl who graces the London party scene but isn’t a bad girl and who can do high-fashion one minute and high-street the next. Oh, and even if you don’t ask her she’ll still offer to make you a cuppa.

Follow Sarah on Twitter @sarahannmacklin
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'A Clear Look' for Vogue Italia March 2013

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