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Awar Odhiang Named Model of the Year as Her Breakout Run Reaches The Fashion Awards

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November 8, 2026

Awar Odhiang smiling while holding two pink-and-white flowers over her eyes in a Chanel campaign photo.

Awar Odhiang holds pink-and-white flowers over her eyes in her Chanel Fall/Winter 2026 campaign. Photo via @awarodhiang.

Awar Odhiang has been named Model of the Year by the British Fashion Council, the latest and largest honour in a run of work that has made the Canadian model one of the defining faces of 2026. The Council announced the award on Wednesday, November 4, and Odhiang will receive it at The Fashion Awards 2026 on Monday, November 30, at the Royal Albert Hall in London.

The award recognises the model whose global impact has defined the industry over the past year, with an influence that reaches beyond the runway. Odhiang was selected by a panel of industry experts chaired by casting director Anita Bitton, with photographer Campbell Addy and stylist and editor Carlos Nazario among the jurors drawn from the casting, styling, photography and editorial sides of the business.

The case rests on the bookings. Odhiang has appeared on eight international magazine covers this year, including Dazed, Harper’s Bazaar France, Vogue France and Vogue Italia, and she fronts campaigns for Chanel, Chloé, Louis Vuitton, Saint Laurent, Loro Piana and H&M. Her breakout moment came in October 2025, when she closed Matthieu Blazy’s debut show for Chanel as the house’s bride, a finale that turned her into one of the most talked about models in Paris. Two months later she received the Models.com industry vote for Female Model of the Year.

British Fashion Council chief executive Laura Weir said: “Awar has brought a truly special energy to fashion this year, reminding us that the industry is at its best when individuality, authenticity and joy are celebrated.”

Odhiang was born in 2000 in the Pugnido refugee camp in Ethiopia, to South Sudanese parents, and was raised in Canada. The Council also cited her work beyond the camera in making the award. The Fashion Awards is the British Fashion Council’s flagship fundraiser, and this year’s ceremony is presented with Pandora as presenting partner. Odhiang will collect the Model of the Year honour on November 30, capping a twelve month stretch that carried her from a Chanel closing slot to the top of her profession.

Kaia Gerber Stars Alongside Dev Hynes in the JW Anderson and UGG Campaign

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55 minutes ago

November 8, 2026

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Kaia Gerber standing in a white sleeveless two-piece outfit against a plain backdrop in a studio photo.

Kaia Gerber in a white two-piece outfit in a studio photo. Photo via @kaiagerber.

Kaia Gerber is the face of the new JW Anderson and UGG collaboration, starring in the campaign for the collection alongside musician Dev Hynes. The British fashion house unveiled the imagery this week, and the collection is on sale now in stores and through the JW Anderson webstore.

Photographers Tanya and Zhenya Posternak shot the campaign as a series of intimate domestic vignettes. Gerber and Hynes are pictured across everyday home settings, in visuals built around the boundary between everyday ease and considered dressing, the same meeting point the collection itself is designed to occupy. The imagery explores domestic rituals and everyday dressing, and it reads less like a conventional product advertisement than a study of how the clothes sit inside a real home. The casting pairs one of fashion’s most in demand models with a musician known for crossing between music, art and fashion projects, a combination the house describes through the work itself: two creative figures photographed the way they might actually live in the clothes.

Gerber’s presence gives the collaboration its headline. A runway and campaign regular for the biggest houses in the business, she has become one of the defining models of her generation, and her name on the campaign places the UGG collaboration firmly in luxury fashion territory rather than the footwear aisle alone.

The collection brings JW Anderson’s design language to UGG’s footwear and comfort led staples, translating both brands into a single wardrobe of pieces made to be lived in. The campaign’s domestic setting is the concept made visible: considered design photographed in the middle of ordinary daily rituals, rather than on a runway or in a studio.

The JW Anderson and UGG collection is available now, both in physical stores and online. For Gerber, the campaign is the latest in a steady line of top tier bookings, and for both brands it is a collaboration pitched at the overlap of comfort dressing and high fashion.