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With Fashion Week just around the corner, we decided to make a list of six models to watch. These girls are some of our favorite new faces, and we're eager to see what's next for them. Meet Marloes Horst, Hannah Holman, Ginta Lapina, Frida Gustavsson, Nimue Smit, and Valerija Kelava. With some editorial and runway work under their size zero belts, these six models are bound to make it big in 2010. Click here to read more about our up-and-comers.

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