Ladies and Gentlemen, the Britney Spears generation is upon us. Though Anne looks nothing like Miss Spears she certainly has that exact combination of girlish sweetness mixed with the iron will. It's will to power expressed with a bubblegum smile. Because the ambition and discipline the model displays is not expressed in the spirit of grim sacrifice. Anne takes one of the best advantages of being young, that ability to approach everything with a sense of joyous discovery and mixes it with the kind of professionalism and discipline you expect only in a very seasoned model.

Casting and booking new models is very much akin to gambling. The market demands new faces to push the product... the new magazines, the new fragrances, the new jeans line. And so the new girls stream in to supply that aura of freshness. But there is the unfortunate recent scenarios of the girls who look cool and look right who then proceed to wilt under the heat of the lights. In a rough economic climate more than a few advertisers are beating a retreat to Amber and Michele Hicks and Eva Herzigova because those girls will show up and deliver the picture and the dividends, every time.

And then there is a girl like Anne who supplies both that "fresh from the wrapper" crispness while standing her ground under the merciless gaze of the camera, poised and ambitious as any girl with six years of posing under her belt.

"When you're on the runway, it's like you're dreaming or you're in a movie,"...