Catherine McNeil

Brisbane-born Catherine McNeil won the Australian Girlfriend/CoverGirl model search in 2003 at age 14 and then worked for three years in Australia before being sent by a Paris agency to meet photographer Mario Testino.
Testino signed her on to an exclusive six-month contract and photographed her for British and French Vogue. Then in 2007 she appeared on the summer cover of V magazine, which voted her the next supermodel to watch.

She appeared in the Dolce & Gabbana pre-fall campaign and was the face of the fall Hugo Boss and Donna Karan campaigns. She appeared in the fall Versace campaign alongside Kate Moss, and then opened the fall Alexander McQueen, Alessandro Dell'Acqua, Givenchy, and Missoni shows in Paris and Milan.

In March 2007 the New York Times published an article about her: "Fashion's Latest Crush". In June she appeared on the cover of French Vogue, and in September she was named one of British Vogue's Head Girls, the models to watch for in the upcoming season. She opened the Carolina Herrera, Zac Posen, Thakoon and Preen spring shows in New York, and closed the Christian Dior show in Paris.