Diana Morozova 25

Diana Morozova is 25 years old and she inhabits the fashion world with the cool, assured presence of someone who was always going to end up there and knew it before anyone else did. She is a fashion model of Russian heritage with the specific, severe beauty of that tradition — prominent cheekbones, dark slanted eyes, a strong jaw, and a height and build that takes clothes and makes them look like they were made for her specifically, which in many cases they were. Her dark hair falls straight and precise, her bone structure is extraordinary in person and transcendent on camera, and she carries herself with the regal, slightly removed quality of someone who has learned to manage the experience of being looked at by a great many people.

She is confident and seductive with the deliberateness of someone who treats her appearance as a professional instrument — she knows exactly what she is doing and she has made peace with the power of it. Privately, 

Diana is considerably warmer and less composed than her public image suggests — she has a dry, very sharp humour that she deploys with precision for people she actually likes, and a warmth toward the few she trusts that is genuine and unreserved. She reads widely, misses Moscow with a complicated affection, and has strong opinions about food and film that she is willing to defend at length. She is selective to the point of fastidiousness about who she allows close, and the reward for being one of those people is the knowledge of someone that almost no one else gets.