Alexina Graham sets fire to the fashion planet

The tops make the headlines.This summer, Paris Match tells you their story.Diaphanous complexion and incendiary curves, Alexina Graham rose in the sphere of the most popular tops in the world.

Diaphanous skin, doe eyes and curves to die for. Alexina Graham has a lot of reasons to be noticed, but only one makes her inevitable: her hell -colored hair which, at the age when the witches were chased, would have destined for flames. Alexina is certainly a spell made a woman, but the only pyre that threatens her today is that of the vanities. The biggest brands tear the British top. Burberry, Balmain, Etam, L’Oréal, Victoria’s Secret ... On this ultra-formatted fashion planet, which sees everything in blond or brown, the redhead proved that there was room for other nuances. It's not nothing. His mane has become his signature; She has long been a ordeal. As a teenager, at the time when she was nicknamed "ginger" (which can be translated, roughly, by "carrot hair"), the schoolgirl was used to taking refuge in the toilet between two courses to flee the mockery. "I was very thin, I didn't have a chest and I was wearing a dental apparatus, she listed. I was not very popular in college ... At the time, my mother, a very strong person, taught me to ignore bad languages. It forged me. Today, I receive a lot of messages from young red girls delighted to see one of their own on the catwalks. Reds are still a lot victims of school or prejudice that put them away. »»

More disconnected than posing, the young top pleased Jean Paul Gaultier

It’s no coincidence that Jean Paul Gaultier, one of the most phantic designers in fashion, was the first to scroll through it. Contests, flamboyant, more disconnected than posing: the young top had everything to please him. "He has never stopped supporting me," she says. However, everything was not overnight for this beauty from Great Britain. According to the laws of social determinism, Alexina, from Nottingham, was more likely to find herself head of the department than queen of the podiums. "I come from a very modest environment. My stepfather is a garbage collector and my mother holds a small shop. We did not live in a very chic place. "Alexina grew up a thousand light years from the fashion world. When others dream of Dior dresses or Chanel ensembles, it targets the white blouse, that of midwives, the job she has chosen. Still you have to pay for studies ... His mother blows the solution to him: as a student job, why not model? She herself had used it younger. Of these few photo sessions, she has an excellent memory. “I then signed up for the Supermodel of the World competition, organized by Ford Models. Once in the final, in New York, I got third place. In the process, Alexina signs with the prestigious Elite agency and wins a contract with Burberry. With her first salary, the redhead pays her invoices; With the second, she offers herself a small Chanel bag ... The extra job turns into a career plan.

The first redhead to parade for Victoria's Secret

The beginner does not have the codes, does not come from the seraglio but carries this tenacity that those to whom nothing has ever been given.Three years in a row, she tried her luck in the casting of the Victoria’s Secret parade."After the last refusal, I decided to go to the gym every day for a year.In the fourth trial, I was accepted.She will be the first redhead to parade for the famous lingerie brand.Since then, the model has adapted perfectly to his new life, between shoots and parades.Without forgetting its roots.Located in New York for four years, she returns to Nottingham every three weeks to find her relatives."My 19 year old little sister has just had twins and I want to be a present aunt.In October, she will embark her whole family for eight days of vacation in Portugal.There is no reason for the sun to shine only for it.

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Pure product of her generation, the Briton carefully details her daily life on social networks, her intensive sports sessions to her travels around the world. "Instagram is essential today," she analyzes with the seriousness of a business manager. Potential customers no longer want to see your book but also your personality. Then Alexina lets go. And shares with her some 185,000 followers her passion for improvised choreographies and the Pop hymns playback, a talent she claims to have inherited her mother. In an environment where appearance is queen, she cultivates a certain talent for self -mockery, without fear for her image. The future has a taste for promises for her. "Before," she explains, aging was a problem for tops. But, now, more and more girls continue to work well after their 30 years. For the moment, I take advantage of the present moment. I never really considered myself a model. I'm just Alexina Graham. The Belle Rouquine does not exclude herself attempt at the cinema. She has never imposed herself with a label and all the doors seem open to her ... except those of maternities. From that, she is certain. "I would have made an execrable midwife: I can't stand the sight of blood! »« Nobody is perfect! »»