Annabel Kiki in Vogue Italia

2025 modelling job highlights

Where is the time going? As we end another year I thought I’d blog about a couple of my favourite modelling jobs from 2025. Obviously my very first London Fashion Week walking the runway for Hengi Wang was a massive highlight, as was Birmingham Fashion Week and all of those stairs… but I never imagined I’d end up in Vogue Italia, but that’s where I found myself at the end of 2025!

I was lucky enough to be selected by Zebedee Talent (my agency) for an editorial shoot they hoped would confront the recent Sydney Sweeney ‘great jeans’ controversy. The original advert had the tagline: “Sydney Sweeney has great jeans” (meaning both denim and genetics). The visuals were Sydney, known for her “American” look (blonde hair, blue eyes), modelling the jeans. Some people suggested that there was a double meaning, that the ad used her appearance to imply her “genes” (beauty) are as good as her jeans, while also suggesting the jeans are great.

Now, if I’m totally honest I think she looks incredible and I think it was potentially just a pun that wasn’t properly thought through… but I was honoured that I could be part of the response with my tagline: “When are brands going to realise that perfection is overrated? Resilience is the real flex. Great jeans aren’t about your DNA, they’re about owning your story. I have one leg and I can still make denim my runway.”

True diversity in fashion definitely doesn’t exist yet and we have such a long way to go, but I feel so proud to be part of an agency and team of wonderful models who are pushing for change, and what a sensational photographer we had: Sam Binstead.

Another highlight this year was working with Steve Madden. I was invited to his London Loft Party where I had SO MUCH FUN! He’d sent me a pair of boots before the evening that I wore on the night…

…and I received another pair of shoes on the evening that I had tattooed with a personal logo. I am now also appearing in a lot of his online Christmas commercials from footage that was filmed throughout the party. Here’s a link to my BTS fun: