The spring/summer 2023 shows were a wild ride of meme-able moments, from the star-studded Tommy Hilfiger show in New York to Balenciaga’s mud-drenched spectacle at Paris Fashion Week. The rising model who’s witnessed much of it play out? Amelia Gray. “Oh my god… It feels like someone needs to pinch me and wake me up from the best dream ever,” Gray tells Vogue of her fashion month experience. “I feel extremely grateful and humbled to be a part of it – I’m still processing it all.”

 

The 21-year-old model, whose parents are American actor Harry Hamlin and Lisa Rinna from The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, walked the runways of Richard Quinn and Dilara Findikoğlu in London, Diesel and Matty Bovan in Milan, and Andreas Kronthaler for Vivienne Westwood in Paris. “I was speaking to Glenn Martens about my look for the [Diesel] show and he was telling me how he was thinking of cutting my look right before I came in for a fitting,” she shares. “Once I had the look on, the pieces came to life and [Martens] loved it – the collaborative process is so inspiring.”

Gray’s highlights this season? “I will never forget that Vivienne Westwood was the first show I ever booked in Paris. When the email popped up on my phone saying I was confirmed, I was mid-way through a conversation with my best friend – it was wild,” she says. “Another moment was right after I came off the runway at Balenciaga, I sat down on a bench and just screamed ‘Balenciaga’, then I started crying tears of shock, joy, excitement, gratitude and pure love.”

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Originally posted from “VOGUE UK” by Alex Kessler