Modelling

Rosie Huntington 

Career 

Modelling 

While a 15-year-old student, she undertook work experience at London West End-based model agency Profile, before taking her GCSEs.Signed after leaving school in summer 2003 aged 16, her first modelling session was for a Levi's jeans commercial. She got her first big break in January 2004 when she travelled toNew York for a shoot with Teen Vogue.She later made her catwalk début alongside Naomi Campbell in New York in Spring 2004,and was then photographed by Bruce Weber for Abercrombie & Fitch.

In early 2006, she was signed to American lingerie brand Victoria's Secret, making her début at the brand's 2006 show in Los Angeles.^[11]

Huntington-Whiteley remained unknown outside the fashion industry until 2008, when she was cast by chief creative director Christopher Bailey, replacing Agyness Deyn for Burberry's autumn/winter campaign with actor Sam Riley. She got her first British Vogue cover on the November 2008 issue, alongside Eden Clark and Jourdan Dunn in a feature celebrating British models.The following year, she was featured as the face of Karen Millen's spring/summer 2009 advertising campaign. She starred in a short film for Agent Provocateur playing a woman whose boyfriend forgets Valentine's Day.

For fall/winter 2009, she modelled in campaigns for Godiva and Miss Sixty. In February 2010, Huntington-Whiteley officially became a Victoria's Secret Angel modelling for the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show in New York City.

In 2010, she posed nude for the Pirelli Calendar, which was photographed by Terry Richardson.Huntington-Whiteley hit the runway for designers Prada inMilan and Giles Deacon in Paris. For SS10 her advertising campaigns included Monsoon's first underwear line, Thomas Wylde, Full Circle, and VS Online. In March, she collaborated with VOGUE.COM to share her outfit choices daily for the Today I'm Wearing feature.She appeared on the covers of the May 2010 issues of Harper's Bazaar Russia and GQ UK.She was featured on the cover of LOVE Magazine's September issue, styled as a pinup girl. ForFW10 she modelled for Burberry as well as the company's first Beauty line her other advertising campaigns included Loewe, Thomas Wylde, and Leon Max.

Fashion photographer Rankin devoted a book entirely to her entitled Ten Times Rosie. Rankin opined that Huntington-Whiteley brought something different to modelling: "We’ve been looking at very, very skinny, almost masculine girls for a long time. [Rosie] really is the model of the moment. She’s the actress of the moment. She’s definitely going to become something much, much bigger. Celebrity make-up artist Ruby Hammer, who has worked with Huntington-Whiteley for years, described her as the "quintessential" English rose.

In March 2011, Huntington-Whiteley landed her first solo British Vogue cover and appeared on the covers of the UK's July issues of Elle and GQ.She was unveiled as the face of Burberry's newest fragrance, Burberry Body, in July 2011.In 2013, Huntington-Whiteley starred alongside Helena Bonham Carter andDavid Gandy in the Marks & Spencer Christmas advert. She was also announced as the face of Australian cosmetics brand ModelCo.