Swan-like, porcelain-skinned, hard-working, tall (6ft 4in in heels), nice, rich, whatever - Erin O'Connor is just one of those models who will never age or go out of fashion - her looks are so unique and elegant: a real life Modigliani.
"She isn't only a model," Jean Paul Gaultier famously raved, "she is quite art. She is like theatre. She is extraordinary inspiration. I should love to be with her every day." • Erin O'Connor was born in 1978 in Walsall • She first modelled for Juergen Teller in a 1996 issue of i-D and she was described as "freak chic" - but went on to model for most of the luxury brands, top photographers, always at couture and, in 2007, the revamped Marks & Spencer • The illustrator David Downtown made her his muse • Erin O'Connor's big break came during a shoot in Brazil, with photographer David Sims and hairdresser Guido, when she decided to get her hair cut off Erin O'Connor oozes common sense: "My job is to sell clothes to very rich women." In 2007, she became vice-chairman of London Fashion Week and a panel member of the Model Health Inquiry to investigate the health issues of models on the London catwalk.
