“Fashion Nova would like to emphasize the fact that we are never looking to discriminate. We launched Fashion Nova Curve for the curvy and confident only three months ago, and our Instagram account has already got almost 300,000 followers. On that page, we repost our customers’ pictures. At Fashion Nova we believe that all women should dress confident and sexy regardless of their weight.”

When I ask Maartje Verhoef how she ended up in modelling, she gives the exact response you’d expect from a five-foot-10.5-inch doe-eyed Dutch beauty: “I’m really lucky—it all just kind of happened to me.” You may never have read Verhoef’s bio, but this small-town-standout-turned-international supermodel story is one you’ll likely recognize. “A friend of mine asked me to shoot a project he was working on,” she says. (Sounds a little familiar already, doesn’t it?) “Then he sent pictures to Micha Models, and I signed with them. After that, everything went quite fast. I met [casting director] Ashley Brokaw, and she booked me as a Prada World Wide exclusive!”

In September 2012, when Verhoef was just 15, she opened the Prada Spring 2013 runway show in Milan. When she was 17, she was crowned the most popular model of the Spring 2015 season after walking 66 runways. Back then, having a six-figure social media follower count was rare. Today, Verhoef has 160,000+ Instagram followers—a by-product of her seemingly glamorous job, famous model friends and enviable eyebrows.

Although she’s a seasoned globetrotter, this was her first visit to Canada—not to mention the first time she’d ever flown in a helicopter to an ice cave on the top of a mountain. “This shoot has been a dream,” she says. When Verhoef’s not in the air jetsetting from one exotic locale to another, she stays grounded by surrounding herself with people she cares about. “These are the people who love me for the person I am.”

See her star in our October issue’s fashion editorial photoshoot, shot on location in an ice cave in Whistler, British Columbia.

From ultra dewy skin and neon eye makeup, to wet hair and embellished updos, the beauty looks from London Fashion Week have given us major fall inspo. Thanks to industry legends like Val Garland and Sam Mcknight, the Spring 2019 looks showed us how to balance minimalist and ornate looks simultaneously.

Soft pink lips and glassy skin at Burberry showed us you can’t go wrong with simplicity. Even the most experimental of shows stuck to this au naturale philosophy, with bold and colourful holographic leather fringes at Byblos and faux-hawks at Molly Goddard balanced with fresh skin and gently smudged lips.

Check out our favourite beauty looks bellow from London Fashion Week Spring 2019.

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