inoubliablemodelarmy: The Graduates

Saturday, September 6, 2014

The Graduates - Jason Wu S/S 2015

Casting director James Scully clearly meant business when he corralled thirty of the most relevant and sought after faces in modelling for Jason Wu's Spring/Summer 2015 show. Model-as-muse Saskia de Brauw set the tone for Jason's Wu's refined take on American sportswear, accompanied by veteran models Karlie Kloss, Jacquelyn Jablonski, Hanne Gaby Odiele, Daria Strokous, Katlin Aas, and Julia Nobis. Scully, one of the fashion industry's most outspoken voices on the subject of diversity, stayed true to his word with a stunning global take on beauty in the form of Egyptian Moroccan supernova Imaan Hammam, Kenyan Malaika Firth, the exuberant American Binx Walton, French Réunion native Pauline Hoarau, and Chinese top model Fei Fei Sun. Models of the moment Amanda Murphy, Sam Rollinson, Sasha Luss, Lexi Boling, Ophélie Guillermand, and Anna Ewers ensured there was no runway filler in sight while last season's breakout stars Julia Bergshoeff, Ine Neefs, Maartje Verhoef, Imaan Hammam, Waleska Gorczevski, Emmy Rappe, and Ronja Furrer were mesmerising as they graduated from rookie class to modelling's major league with their first runway appearances of the season. Scully's carefully curated selection of bonafide runway stars is proof that a quality versus quantity approach minus the brouhaha of runway exclusives is as close as it gets to pure casting gold.