At first glance those cheekbones don't appear real - almost otherworldly, so chiseled are they on her face. Then there's the eyes, light green and piercing. But Rayner is as real as they come, residue of a youth spent "out in the sticks of Essex. It’s not all as bad as it sounds. Had a solid childhood, playing in the woods ’til about 14 ... that kinda thing,". It's this upbringing that's gifted our January muse an undeniably British aesthetic: those Jagger-inspired heavy bangs and layered chestnut locks, an androgynous personal style and distinct devil-may-care grin. Here, on the coldest day of the year in a London studio, we got to know our first Face of 2018: Lorelle Rayner.

With a look that makes us wonder where she's been all this time, Rayner was discovered comparatively late at the age of 21 "at V Festival in Essex when it was a semi-decent line up." She quickly caught the eye of Louis Vuitton's creative director Nicolas Ghesquière, who booked her exclusively for his AW 15 and SS 16 runways. It was during these shows that she forged a connection with three other "truly wonderful ladies", fellow models Heather Kemesky, Rianne van Rompaey and Tamy Glauser - with the group going on to get matching 'LV' tattoos in commemoration. In the years since she's appeared on runways for Céline and Jacquemus, and posed before Juergen Teller's lens.

"[I'm a] Taurus. Pretty happy with that. We’re reliable folk, can’t argue with that."