) Shanina is the Cut's Friday's Top Model!Shanina Shaik Is Friday’s Top Model
Three of last season’s breakthrough faces made major headway on Friday’s catwalks. DNA Models’s Kati Nescher – who appears in the spring campaigns for Louis Vuitton, Pringle of Scotland, McQ, and Céline – scored the opening looks at Helmut Lang and rag & bone in for her New York debut. At Suno’s show, American Maria Bradley opened and Brit Lara Mullen closed. Yet our eyes were fixed on Aussie model Shanina Shaik (it just so happens that today is her 21st birthday!) who opened Jason Wu’s impeccably-casted show. When we met with Shaik after walking Victoria’s Secret, she told us she’d love to “explore high-fashion modeling, too,” as she’s often “put-down a lot that I can’t do high fashion, for how I look.” Well, after walking in Chanel’s Paris-Bombay show last month and opening Jason Wu’s latest fall collection, she’s now well on her way to achieving her goals. See all of yesterday’s major opener and closers in the slideshow ahead.

Beautiful Birthday Girl Shanina Shaik
Shanina Shaik celebrated her 21st birthday in ULTIMATE style yesterday by opening the Jason Wu Show at Fashion Week! The gorgeous Aussie spent the middle of the day in castings and then was back into hair and makeup when we caught up with her backstage at Charlotte Ronson.
“It’s My Birthday!” she told us happily while sporting the Modelinia LOVES Bracelet that benefits Saves the Children and can be purchased for $35 at Beachmint.
After she worked it on the catwalk for Charlotte, she was off for a night of fun. First she hit Madison Square Garden to watch the New York Knicks vs. Los Angeles Lakers game, then went to dinner with friends at her current favorite restaurant, Catch, in the Meatpacking District.
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