Anne has had lavish editorials devoted to her in Dazed and Confused, turned up in Harper's Bazaar and booked American Vogue. Most notably she had been declared a girl to watch by Guy Trebay in the New York Times Style Section. All this at a time when Anne Vialitsina was 15 years old.

It means that at a very young age, though she is strictly chaperoned by her agent, Anne V must work the global schedule and the grueling hours of a rising mannequin. It means from week to week, navigating the streets of strange cities, amidst a myriad of foreign languages; finding her way to the go-sees, the fittings and the shoots.

Her parents remain in Russia ( her mother being a doctor) even as she works from New York...