“Real love feels like your own planet.” This issue’s muse grew up on Sydney’s beaches and now calls an old artist loft in NY’s SoHo home. She’s a runway favourite to Gaultier and Comme des Garçons, and since being scouted in Paris at age 14 she’s posed for the likes of  Steven Klein and Inez and Vinoodh.

A self-proclaimed lover, Alexandra Agoston tells us she’ll tear up at Nick Cave then dance it off to Talking Heads. In her eyes, modern romance is “too commercialised”, so for an issue centred on the heart it was her partner, photographer Chris Colls, who captured her as only a lover could: raw, real, unguarded. Heartbreaker, you got the best of me.

“Love has taught me to see beauty and strength in vulnerability.”

What’s the first thing we should know about you? I can’t lie. My nickname is … AA. My star sign is … Cancer. It suits me because … I’m a lover. My friends would describe me as … Happy. Heartbreak is … Personal. When it came to love, I used to think … That I wanted to feel complete total love and nothing in between. But now I know … That I found it.

My favourite song to dance it off to is … Anything Talking Heads. It’s better to have … Strength / point of view. Than never to … Be heard. Ex lovers are … Ex lovers. Not many people know that … I draw and paint. Healing is … Very important. Listen to your body. The upside of a broken heart is … Open to fall in love again.

“I always trust my instincts, my heart."