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Nanabah Grace Makes History With Her Victoria’s Secret Runway Debut
Nanabah Grace made fashion history on October 18, walking the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show for the first time at Sony Pictures Studios in Los Angeles and becoming, as local and national coverage reported, the first Navajo model to walk the brand’s runway. The Diné–Bilagáana model was one of more than a dozen newcomers in a cast headlined by returning veterans, and her debut was her biggest runway moment yet, in the city she now calls home.
After the show, Grace reflected on the moment on Instagram, opening her message with “Ahéhee,” a Diné expression of thanks, and speaking about what it meant to represent her people on one of fashion’s most recognizable stages. She was not the first Native model to work with the brand: Nez Percé model Celilo Miles appeared in Victoria’s Secret’s 2022 Love Campaign, and Hän Gwich’in model Quannah Chasinghorse wore archival wings in its 2023 campaign and The Tour ’23 special. Grace’s walk carried that line of representation onto the main runway itself.
The debut was years in the making. Originally from southwestern Colorado, Grace signed with IMG Models in 2021 and made her runway debut for Jacquemus’s spring/summer 2022 show in Hawaii in March 2022. Her résumé since includes campaign work for Ralph Lauren and Maybelline, and runway appearances for Ed Hardy and Grace Ling in Los Angeles and for Indigenous designer K. Lookinghorse at New York Fashion Week. Models.com lists her with IMG in New York, London, Los Angeles and Sydney.
Her career runs on a second track as well. Grace played Kuttaambo’i, a Shoshone warrior, across five episodes of Netflix’s 2025 limited series American Primeval, an acting debut she landed while completing a behavioral health science degree at Grand Canyon University, where she graduated in December 2022.
For a model still early in her runway career, a Victoria’s Secret debut is the kind of booking that changes a trajectory. For Grace, it also carried a community with it, and her walk gave Indigenous representation a place on fashion’s loudest stage. It will not be the last time her name leads a story like this one.
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Kit Butler Fronts Karl Lagerfeld’s ‘From Paris With Love’ and MANGO Man’s Savile Row Story
Kit Butler is having the kind of year that confirms a top model’s staying power. The British model fronts the menswear tailoring story of Karl Lagerfeld’s Fall Winter 2026 campaign, “From Paris With Love,” and leads MANGO Man’s Tailored by Richard James collection — two campaigns built entirely around his command of a suit.
For Karl Lagerfeld, Butler embodies the house’s menswear codes through sharp, traditional suiting, photographed by Matt Easton and styled by Isabelle Kountour. The campaign, which puts Paris Hilton front and center with Jon Kortajarena also in the cast, pairs Butler with NOT-KARL, a digital character nodding to the house’s founder, who appears as his companion inside a vintage television set.
At MANGO Man, Butler carried the Tailored by Richard James collection — the Savile Row tailor’s collaboration with the menswear line — through a campaign shot across London’s cobblestones and Georgian terraces. The collection leans into earth tones: tobacco brown suits cut close to the body, houndstooth blazers in warm camel, and a double-breasted standout in stone.
It is familiar territory for Butler, who was scouted while helping his uncle build an aerodrome and made his debut opening Stuart Vevers’ Coach menswear show in London. Represented by Next London, his mother agency, along with Soul Artist Management in New York, Bananas Models in Paris and Fashion Model Management in Milan, he holds a place in Models.com’s Icons and Top 50 rankings and a spot in the BoF 500.
The campaign run builds on recent seasons that included Dolce & Gabbana’s Fall Winter 2025 campaign, photographed by Steven Meisel. The Business of Fashion, which counts Butler in its BoF 500 index of the people shaping the industry, describes a model who gave up a typical high-school existence playing rugby to become a favorite for heritage houses like Burberry. Add a VMAN 56 cover photographed by Luigi & Iango earlier this year, and Butler’s 2026 underlines why heritage houses keep calling: nobody on the current menswear board wears a suit quite like him.
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