Mohit Wagh 
Hamburg, mid-2000s. A teenager with long limbs and serious eyes is scouted during the 2006 World Cup. By 15, she’s walking exclusively for Calvin Klein — a gig most models would have killed for at … Read more
You’ve probably seen Erin Heatherton in those glitter-heavy Victoria’s Secret Fashion Shows. Or on a glossy Vogue spread with her trademark blonde waves and sharp runway walk. But here’s the thing — beyond the sequins … Read more
Spotlights. Glitter. A million cameras flashing while the Victoria’s Secret Angel wings felt heavier than they looked. For a while, Erin Heatherton embodied that glossy fantasy — runway struts in New York, campaigns splashed across … Read more
There’s a certain irony in Erin Heatherton’s story. A girl from Skokie, Illinois—basketball player, science-fair kid, just another face in the crowd—ends up towering on a Victoria’s Secret billboard in Times Square. By 2010, she … Read more
The lights. The wings. The roar of the crowd. Erin Heatherton once stood center stage as a Victoria’s Secret Angel, strutting beneath the blinding spotlights of New York, Paris, and Milan. Between 2010 and 2013, … Read more
She didn’t come from Milan or Paris. Erin Heatherton grew up in Skokie, Illinois, the kind of suburban place where modeling dreams usually live on magazine covers taped to bedroom walls. And yet by 2008, … Read more
If you remember the Victoria’s Secret Angels storming the runway in 2011, you remember Erin Heatherton. The Chicago-born model with the long, athletic frame and easy smile became one of the defining faces of that … Read more
The flash of camera bulbs at Cannes once turned her emerald gown into a trending moment on Twitter. Not just a dress, but a cultural snapshot. That’s the thing with Bar Refaeli’s fashion — it … Read more
Two women. Two worlds. One in Tel Aviv, another in Horizontina, Brazil. Yet somehow, both Bar Refaeli and Gisele Bündchen ended up shaping what we think a supermodel even is. Refaeli’s name first flashed across … Read more
Spotlights. Camera flashes. Red carpets halfway across the world. That’s how most people picture Bar Refaeli — the Israeli supermodel who graced global magazine covers and once ruled Sports Illustrated’s swimsuit issue back in 2009. … Read more