8. Aymeline Valade
Age: 27. Agency: Women. Provenance: France

2012 has been very good to Aymeline. Not only was she hitting the high campaign notes of a top model (Donna Karan, Chanel, Giorgio Armani), she also wasted no time in the editorial department. Like Kati, Aymeline shows that getting into the modeling game in your mid-to-late 20s is not the impossible dream. She typically shared her page space with other models, but it’s hard to complain when it happens, for example, in Vogue Paris shot by Mert & Marcus.