After 20 years at the forefront of fashion, trail-blazing model Alek Wek talks about her first film role, diversity in the industry and why she prefers dating younger men
After more than two decades on the front line of the fashion industry, and at an age at which most models might previously have been regarded as reaching (or even having passed) a suitably graceful moment to retire, 41-year-old Alek Wek is finally hitting her stride. “The party’s just getting started,” she tells me, flashing her trademark gap-toothed grin. In January this year, she landed her first solo Vogue cover (in Ukraine), and was shot for a further 10 glossy covers last year, including UK Elle, Paper, Dazed and Pop magazine. “They never thought I was Pop material before,” she says.
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