Tiny Dancer

March's featured model is Karlie Kloss. I suppose it can be said that Kloss really began her career as a ballerina, which I am certain has influenced her ability to exude grace while walking the runways in all the varying kinds of dangerous heels a model faces in her career as well as in scads of photo shoots. 2007 was Kloss' big breakout year. Interestingly enough, it was Teen Vogue that featured Kloss for times in 2007 that really launched her into the limelight When I think of magazines that are featuring up and coming models, my thoughts do not generally go to Teen Vogue. Not only is she a favorite at Teen Vogue but also just about every other Vogue around the world, as well as W, i-D and numerous other publications. She is also a designer darling, opening and closing for people such as Jacobs, Galliano, Lagerfeld, Mizrahi. She's the face for Marc Jacob's fragrance Lola and in her first season she closed for Calvin Klein as an exclusive. Not bad for some one who was only 15 at the time. Now 18, she is still dominating the runways and magazines. Just this month, she is featured in Vogue ironically portraying "short" in the size issue. I have chosen to feature Karlie because I have followed her since those early Teen Vogue spreads (not religiously by any means but she's been hard to miss if one pays any amount of attention to fashion). She has a very versatile and chameleon-esque look that can be sweet all American one minute then sophisticated high fashionista then devious teenager the next. What I hope is that as these young models (Karlie, Lindsey Wixson, countless others) can bear the changes that they will go through as they get older, in their bodies and (irrevocably linked to that) in their careers. I'm sure Karlie will be able to handle any thing that comes her way with the grace we are all accustomed too.