"When you're on the runway, it's like you're dreaming or you're in a movie," Anne offers by way of explanation. "Everything is going so fast....the girl just walked ahead of you. It's your turn. You step out. The lights are in your face. The music is loud. You're walking and all the people are watching".

The sixteen year old in Anne inspires her to act out that moment of transcendence. "And you just start to feel it. You start to feel like you're glamorous or tough or rock. You just feel it!"

And bless her for feeling it, because being able to sense the different tones and variations of each designer and each photographer is what makes for a superior model. Being able to feel it without fear or fatigue is indeed, what the model is here for.

Anne is out of the box with a spectacular start. The name of her particular end game is the long distance run. At the finish line looms the split level world of exclusive Victoria's Secret and Revlon contracts even as you headline major magazine covers . Only a handful of girls have what it takes to get to that lucrative finish line.

You don't get there in two seasons. You prove yourself over time. You deliver both mass appeal beauty and edgy of-the-moment inspiration. You keep evolving. You keep surprising the audience. In the next two years as Anne edges closer to eighteen, as ambition merges with experience and with the alliances she forges in the business, it will be very interesting to see how she will manifest her destiny. She is sixteen, yet she already knows that to finish the run you need, of course, beauty ...but as Anne said to Mr Trebay of the NY TImes "to be pretty is not enough".

It is certainly not. You have to have a supermodel's ambition and one suspects that with that fire in Anne Vialitsina we haven't even seen anything yet. Watch this face.

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