Over the weekend, at Zimbabwe Achievers Awards, model du jour and the 2011 Face of Louis Vuitton Nyasha Matonhodze won the Young Achievers Award. Unfortunately, the high flyer that the 17-year-old already is, she was en route to New York and unable to pick up her award in person.
Today we bring you this brand new black and white images of Nyasha photographed by Niclas Heikkinen along with Nyasha’s career highlights to date.
- 31 JUL, 1994
- Born in Zimbabwe
- 2009
- Becomes finalist in Elite Model Look
- 2009
- Signs contract with Elite Models in Paris and Milan
- SEP 2010
- Debuts at the spring Louis Gray show in London; also walks for Loewe, Jonathan Saunders, Emanuel Ungaro, and Louis Vuitton
- NOV 2010
- Appears in Wonderland editorial, photographed by Xevi Muntane
- 2010
- Signs contract with Marilyn Agency
- 2011
- Appears in spring issue of V, photographed by Peter Funch
- FEB 2011
- Walks the fall Halston, Marc by Marc Jacobs, Michael Kors, Emanuel Ungaro, Loewe, and Louis Vuitton shows in New York and Paris
- MAR 2011
- Appears in editorials for Harper’s Bazaar and Teen Vogue
- APR 2011
- Teen Vogue features Matonhodze as a face to watch
- 2011
- Featured on the fall cover of Love, photographed by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott
- 2011
- Models for the Louis Vuitton fall ad campaign
- SEP 2011
- Matonhodze records her New York Fashion Week for The Cut Video»
- OCT 2011
- Closes the spring Balenciaga show in Paris
- OCT 2011
- Appears in editorials for W and Numero
- NOV 2011
- Appears in editorials for Vogue and Numero
- DEC 2011
- Appears in Vogue editorial, photographed by Norman Jean Roy
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- Click here for New York Magazine’s interview with Nyasha from May 2011.
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