It’s universally known that if you want to be a model, you’ve got to be tall. For a lot of us, 5’9″ is a pretty good height, but in the fashion industry, that’s on the shorter side for a model. That doesn’t mean, however, that girls who aren’t blessed with longer legs can’t still have successful careers. In fact, there are plenty of women who have proved that, although they might not stand as tall as most models, they can still make it–like these 17 top models, all of whom are under 5’9″:

1. Lily-Rose Depp

Lily-Rose Depp may only be 5’3″, but she looms large in Karl Lagerfeld’s mind. The Chanel muse has walked many a tweed-filled runway (Haute Couture Spring 2017, Pre-Fall 2017, Haute Couture Fall 2015) and starred in various beauty and eyewear campaigns for the brand. Depp has already graced a fair number of magazine covers, among them Jalouse, LOVE, V Magazine, Vogue Paris, British Vogue, ELLE France, ELLE Greece and Vanity Fair France. We suppose she has her equally petite, preternaturally beautiful mom to thank.

2. Lottie Moss

Much like her big sister Kate Moss, Lottie Moss has risen within the industry despite being (somewhat) vertically challenged. (Needless to say, the family affiliation didn’t hurt.) The 5’6″ British beauty has fronted campaigns for Topshop, Chanel, Bulgari and RED Valentino. She’s walked the runways of Sonia Rykiel, Topshop Unique and Chanel and graced a handful of covers, the most notable being Vogue Paris’ May 2016 edition, which she shared with fellow genetically #blessed millennial Lucky Blue Smith.

3. Hailey Bieber

Instagirl Hailey Bieber is one of the most visible models of our time thanks (in part) to the 5’7″ blonde’s close friendship with the Jenner and Hadid sisters – and being married to Justin Bieber. Nevertheless, the IMG signee — who’s walked for the likes of Dolce & Gabbana, Jeremy Scott, Prabal Gurung, Elie Saab, Tory Burch, Off-White, Zadig & Voltaire and Tommy Hilfiger — has more than earned her stripes. She has fronted campaigns for Guess, Karl Lagerfeld, Tommy Jeans, Calvin Klein, Versace, Miu Miu, UGG. In June 2022, the American beauty unveiled Rhode – a line of efficacious, intentional skincare essentials.

4. Sofia Richie Grainge

Sofia Richie Grainge (daughter of Lionel Richie) is successfully forged her own identity in the modeling industry and now considered a style icon. The 5’6″, beauty has fronted Complex, Wonderland, Town & Country, walked the runways of Dolce & Gabbana, Chanel, Yeezy and Philipp Plein and appeared in the pages of W, V Magazine, Vogue Japan and Seventeen, among others. 

5. Adwoa Aboah

Freckle-faced Ghanaian-British beauty Adwoa Aboah is a force to be reckoned with. The 5’8″ 24-year-old is a Vogue (and Vogue.com) favorite thanks to her fresh, rebellious personal style. Not that she needed the validation. Aboah has walked nearly every runway of note (Miu Miu, Chanel, Christian Dior, Fenty x Puma, Versace, Fendi, Moschino, Marc Jacobs, Kenzo) and starred in countless high-profile campaigns (Marc Jacobs, Alexander Wang, Calvin Klein, Sephora). In 2017, Aboah jumped to the silver screen as Ghost in the Shell’s Lia.

6. Rose Bertram

Rose Bertram, a 5’7″ bombshell known for her curly mane and killer curves, is a favorite of Sports Illustrated, LOVE, H&M and Jeremy Scott. The IMG signee and Instagirl on the rise has also worked with beauty giant L’Oréal Paris and luxury lingerie retailer Agent Provocateur, among others.

7. Sara Sampaio

As far as Victoria’s Secret Angels go, 5’8″ Sara Sampaio is a bit on the “short” side. Still, Portugal’s most photogenic export is a mainstay on the international catwalks. In 2017, she’s strutted Balmain, Mugler, Elie Saab, Alberta Ferretti, Baja East, Marchesa, Tory Burch, Prabal Gurung and Tommy Hilfiger. Her list of recent campaign appearances is almost as long-winded — Moroccanoil, Victoria’s Secret, Blumarine, Hogan… Oh, and she’s already got Vogue, LOVE and Editorialist features under her belt.  

8. Emily Ratajkowski

You’ve definitely had an eyeful of 5’7″ Emily Ratajkowski — you’ll remember her from 2013’s controversial “Blurred Lines” music video and 2014’s movie adaptation of Gone Girl. But Ratajkowski’s a model first. Her formidable CV includes a turn on Miu Miu’s Fall 2016 runway, a spot in Marc Jacobs’ sprawling Spring 2016 ad campaign and stints on the covers of CR Fashion Book, GQ Spain and British Vogue. Oh, and she’s a firm fave of Donatella Versace.

9. Marisa Miller

Marisa Miller would be a babe no matter her height, which is 5’8″, to be exact. The American fashion model is known best for looking scrumptious in Sports Illustrated and for Victoria’s Secret.

10. Kate Moss

Kate Moss is an industry icon, which is amazing, considering shes’ only 5’7″. But her keen modeling abilities and dangerous, cool-girl vibe we all wish we had have turned her into one of the most successful faces in the world. 

11. Cara Delevingne

Cara Delevingne‘s height has been reported to be anywhere between 5’7″ and 5’8″. One thing’s for sure, she’s definitely not traditional runway height. Her agent once tried to get her cast in Louis Vuitton’s Fall 2012 show, but she was cut when Marc Jacobs asked, “Why is that dwarf in there?”

12. Devon Aoki

Devon Aoki is one of the shortest high fashion models out there, and has enjoyed a lot of success through her career. In the late 90s, she became the face of Versace and also posed for Chanel, Kenzo, Moschino, Fendi and many more. How tall is she? Just 5’5″.

13. Camille Rowe

Camille Rowe has landed campaigns with Chloé, Aldo, Dior Homme, H&M and more, as well as multiple covers of ELLE France. She’s also posed for Victoria’s Secret at only 5’7″. Not bad for a “short” girl, right?

14. Lila Moss

After posing alongside her model mother Kate Moss on Vogue Italia’s July 2016 edition, it was only a matter of time before Lila Moss reached superstardom. At 5’3″, Lila has secured campaigns for a whole multitude of fashion houses including Ermanno Scervino, Versace, Marc Jacobs and appeared on the magazine covers of British Vogue, Vogue Japan and Vanity Fair Italia to name a select few.

15. Liberty Ross

Liberty Ross‘ 5’6″ frame certainly was not a problem for Burberry, Emanuel Ungaro or Jimmy Choo–they all chose her to front their campaigns. 

16. Lydia Hearst

While it helps that your family is one of the most powerful in the publishing industry when you’re trying to start a modeling career, Lydia Hearst has had a lot of success–not because of her name. She’s landed campaigns for Juicy Couture, Pringle of Scotland, Swarovski and more. Not to mention the sizeable amount of print work she’s done for international versions of Vogue, Marie Claire, Elle and more. The 5’7″ Hearst has been so successful, that she was chosen to be a mentor for season 2 of Naomi Campbell’s modeling reality competition, The Face.

17. Laetitia Casta

Laetitia Casta has had a tremendously successful career in spite of her 5’6″ height. The credits are as far as the eye can see: A contract with L’Oréal Paris, a stint as a Victoria’s Secret Angel, covers of Vogue, ELLE, i-D as well as jobs modeling for Dolce & Gabbana, Givenchy, Roberto Cavalli, Vivienne Westwood and countless others.

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By now, I’m sure you need no informing that here at theFashionSpot, we’re huge champions and supporters of ELLE France. Week after the week, the magazine manages to outshine and outdo the competition down at the newsstand and as the gift that keeps on giving, we regularly sit in anticipation as to what the publication has in store for us next.
Following last week’s triumphant and celebratory Keiona offering, Véronique Philipponnat gives us French ELLE regular Laetitia Casta on this week’s issue dated October 5, 2023. Photographed by Boo George and styled by the magazine’s fashion editor Anne Marie Brouillet, the French model and actress is all smiles in the cover photograph, decked out in a head-to-toe look from Maria Grazia Chiuri’s Fall 2023 collection for Christian Dior. No stranger to Dior, Laetitia was handpicked by Chiuri to feature in the legendary French fashion house’s ‘Lady 95.22‘ handbag advertising campaign earlier this year.

Members of our forums, however, felt somewhat disappointed with the end result. “They didn’t exactly try to make her look her best, did they,” pointed out FashioNarrating.
“‘I’m unwashed and it’s Sunday, do I really have to leave the house?'” added tigerrouge, also suggesting Laetitia was done a disservice.
“Just glad to see her!” liberty33r1b reasoned.
“While I’m not impressed by the cover, I think that it’s very classic approach to a fashion cover that ELLE France does so well and therefore it works for me,” aracic chimed in . “Could it have been better? Sure, yeah!”
“For me, Laetitia Casta will always and forever be a good idea. Casta’s story by Mario Testino and Emmaneulle Alt for Vogue Paris May 2012 will always remain the gold standard, but I am very much liking the sight of this cover – especially the art direction. It’s fun, it’s loud, has a hint of joy… I’ve zero complaints,” praised vogue28.
See more of Laetitia Casta as ELLE France’s latest cover star and join the conversation, here.

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Eugénie Trochu is now four issues deep into her tenure at Vogue France. As Emmanuelle Alt‘s successor, the magazine’s new head of editorial content has some pretty big shoes to fill. Mika Schneider, Lola Nicon and Malika Louback definitely deserved better than last month’s questionable cover. Now Laetitia Casta is back on the cover of the French fashion bible for March 2022 10 years after her last appearance. For the bold and patriotic cover, the French beauty wears a vivid blue jumpsuit from Saint Laurent’s Spring 2022 collection selected by Imruh Asha for the image captured by Carlijn Jacobs.

French Vogue‘s latest took our forum members by surprise. “Wow! That’s a stunning photo,” raved crmsnsnwflks the moment the cover dropped.

“This is an amazing cover. Laetitia looks stunning and the shapes are amazing. Iconic and timeless,” described newton91.

“I love it. Very memorable and impactful. Everything just works, the photo, the layout and of course Laetitia (can’t believe it’s been 10 years since her last cover),” commented THD96.

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“A little bit in love with this to be completely honest. It’s very striking, patriotic and has that Jean-Paul Goude quality which I approve of. Plus, it feels like Emmanuelle Alt never left with Laetitia Casta back on the cover and the strong sense of retro glamour so there is of course that. Yes!” applauded vogue28.

But not everyone shared the same enthusiasm. “Vogue France is very pedestrian. The art direction is tragic,” voiced MON.

“At first glance it’s great, but the more I look at it the more strange it looks. Looks like they rotated the image, but it’s making her tilt look awkward,” BlueRuin pointed out.

“I adore Laetitia, but there’s something that I don’t like about this. The proportions maybe?” wondered marsnoop2.

“A desperate attempt to revive the old image of Vogue Paris,” said OllieJE.

Are you a fan? See more from Vogue France’s March 2022 issue and join the debate here.

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Anthony Vaccarello’s Saint Laurent Fall 2020 collection was a hit on our forums. Now the advertising campaign has dropped. The vast majority of ads for the storied French fashion house under the designer’s tenure have gone over well on our forums. (It helps that they’ve featured everyone from Kate Moss to Mica Argañaraz to Kaia Gerber to Anja Rubik.) Juergen Teller is back as photographer with Vaccarello tapping his muses Freja Beha Erichsen, Laetitia Casta and Debra Shaw as the faces of the bourgeois-inspired collection with the trio striking poses around Paris.

Perhaps a change in photographer is needed for next season. “I don’t understand why Vaccarello insists on booking Teller every season. Vaccarello does beautiful collections, but these campaigns are just so uninspiring,” commented YSL87.

“Only Juergen can make a collection this good look unappealing and cheap,” echoed avonlea002.

“Vaccarello paid the wrong photographer for this campaign,” agreed GivenchyAddict.

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Sharing the same sentiment was Salvatore: “So you mean to tell me Vaccarello gave, in my opinion, the best show/collection of Fall 2020 and this is the campaign we get for it?”

“I wish it was just Laetitia — this campaign does Freja no favors. She looks like people should be ringing a hotline to report suspected human trafficking,” noted tigerrouge.

“I actually like this, but Freja just seems so out of place, I can’t help but be annoyed with her shots. Laetitia, on the other hand, is truly selling it for me,” shared Overindulgence.

But not everyone was disappointed by the outcome. “I feel like this just works. The colors pop. This gives me like…the freshness in the air after the rain, love it when Juergen can capture that mood for me,” admired russianelf.

“Love Debra Shaw. Amazing to see her in a YSL campaign!” raved mikel.

See Shaw’s ad and share your thoughts on the new Saint Laurent campaign here.

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The last time Vanity Fair France got our attention was back in 2016 with a Lily-Rose Depp offering. Four years later, the publication is back on our radar thanks to its new August 2020 cover featuring Laetitia Casta. Whether she’s fronting Numéro, posing nude on ELLE France or landing the cover of Vogue Paris, Laetitia always delivers. The French actress poses in front of a stark white studio backdrop before the lens of Nathaniel Goldberg for the cover. Laetitia’s natural beauty shines through in the clean and minimal cover image with the star simply wearing a crisp Chanel shirt picked by Camille Bidault-Waddington.

The applause could be heard loud and clear across our forums. “Laetitia looks beautiful as always. Great portrait for the cover!” heralded aracic.

“Stunning as always! I love to see Laetitia on covers,” agreed Bertrando3.

“Stunning cover, Laetitia looks flawless with this natural beauty style,” said burbuja8910.

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Also equally impressed with the cover was Benn98: “This cover is simply stunning. From the font to the uncomplicated close-up.”

“Absolutely stunning!” echoed MON.

“Laetitia is such a beauty!” raved FashionMuseDior.

“Nathaniel Goldberg out here helping the French publications BIG time during the pandemic — first Vogue Paris and now Vanity Fair France. This is a beautiful cover, love the simplicity and rawness of the shot and of course Laetitia Casta is always a welcome sight,” declared vogue28.

Check out Laetitia’s cover feature in all its glory and share your thoughts here.

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If the Met Gala is equivalent to the Oscars in the fashion world, then the Cannes International Film Festival would be like the Golden Globes. Or all of Haute Couture Fashion Week set against the backdrop of the French Riviera. Whatever way you frame it, there’s no denying that the festival produces a cavalcade of luxe gowns from some of the biggest fashion houses around. We’re talking Chanel, Elie Saab, Christian Dior, Versace, Armani…you get the idea. But this year, two of the biggest wow moments came courtesy of two relative unknowns — Michael Cinco and Michael Halpern.

Trains were popular and grand with celebs going to great lengths to make a statement (and causing extra work for those underappreciated dress fluffers). The see-through trend was still going strong, though thankfully, most pieces did a good job camouflaging attendees’ private parts. We saw a few jumpsuits/pantsuits this go-round, mostly pulled off with great aplomb. A couple of wedding dresses found their way to the festival, which surprisingly translated pretty well to the red carpet. For all the top fashion highlights from the past week, check out the jam-packed slideshow above.

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If you traveled to Hollywood over the past week to do some stargazing, you were basically out of luck. Why? Because pretty much every A-list celeb was over in France at the annual Cannes International Film Festival — or so it seemed (if you don’t believe us, just check out the 90-plus slides above). The Clooneys held court at the Money Monster premiere, jury members Kirsten Dunst and Vanessa Paradis flexed their style muscles repeatedly while checking out the contenders and the L’Oréal Paris ambassadors represented the cosmetics giant throughout the festival in grand fashion. And we were a bit surprised to see all the risqué behavior at the notoriously conservative festival, from Julia Roberts ascending the Cannes staircase barefoot to one basically naked dress courtesy of Kendall Jenner. While Cannes regulars Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Sonam Kapoor impressed as always, Araya A. Hargate and Li Yuchun really took the “go big or go home” mantra to heart by stepping out in several eye-popping pieces. We’ve got Cannes covered, so all you have to do to witness all the top style moments is simply scroll through our slideshow.

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The Cannes International Film Festival is the epitome of elegance, sophistication and Old Hollywood glamour. Grand gowns routinely reign supreme and embellishments are practically a prerequisite. Remember, this is the same festival that tried to ban flats and selfies in 2015. But that doesn’t mean stars don’t try to push the fashion envelope while attending the festival. In fact, Cannes has a rather sordid history of risqué looks (by its standards, anyway), from Madonna shocking fellow attendees in a cone bra back in the early 90s to last year’s gathering where sheer accents were all the rage. And then you have your consummate risk-takers like Anja Rubik, who dare to challenge the festival’s boundaries year after year. For the most revealing looks from the iconic festival, simply click through the slideshow above and learn what not to wear if you ever score an invite to a premiere or a party over in Cannes.

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Eclectic is the best way to describe the front rows at this season’s New York Fashion Week shows. We spotted everyone from actors and actresses to musicians along with social media mavens rubbing shoulders (sometimes literally since those seats can be pretty tight). There was even a pampered pooch who scored a prime spot. Part of the fun of Fashion Week is seeing who gets seated together at these presentations and we were in for a treat as Nicki Minaj posed next to Debbie Harry at Givenchy, Olivia Wilde buddied up to Naomi Watts at Michael Kors, while Alexa Chung plus Solange Knowles equaled a striking sartorial pair at 3.1 Phillip Lim. For more from the front row, scroll through the slideshow above.

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“Wow she looks stunning, her new hair is so refreshing,” admired elle_gb instantly.

“This is beautiful! That hair gives the edgy feel the cover! I love it!” MON added in agreement.

Also more than satisfied to see Casta on the cover was happycanadian: “God, her face. One of the most beautiful models of all time, in my opinion.”

Forum member A.D.C. was feeling the cover too, echoing, “This is the most high fashion thing she’s done in ages even more so than her Vogue Paris stuff.”

After all the love came some grumbles. “She looks like your average boring Victoria’s Secret model instead of the goddess she is, don’t like at all,” Wintergreen complained.

“The eyebrows are a little too pronounced, but she looks so beautiful,” pointed out marsnoop2.

“Amazing cover but it’s so Photoshopped that it almost looks like a drawing,” Oxymore ranted.

Laetitia’s flawless cover story is sure to cement your judgement. Check it out and join the conversation here.

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