That’s until this weekend, when I unlocked my phone to a message from Ignacio Murillo, Vogue’s global casting director, urging me to look at Luna Yohannan’s Instagram profile. The breakout model—she debuted on the runway at Michael Rider’s first show for Celine earlier this year in July—has been sharing illustrations of the runway looks she’s worn this spring 2026 season. In New York: Tory Burch, Altuzarra, Coach, Ralph Lauren, and Jason Wu. They’re playful and sweet; joyful, even. They look more like poster illustrations than straightforward fashion croquis. Yohannan gives her figurines—or herself as a figurine—charming personalities.
A native New Yorker, Yohannan graduated from high school last year and planned on taking a gap year before enrolling at Wesleyan University in Connecticut to study biochemical engineering—a true multi-hyphenate, this one. She had been working at Indochine, a restaurant downtown, as a hostess. “I knew it was a fashion spot,” she said last Friday, calling from her Airbnb in Milan, “but one night this guy comes in and asks me who I’m signed with, I was just like, ‘Do you have a reservation?’” she laughed. Yohannan gave him her Instagram and moved on, though, as it turns out, he was a friend of Butterfly Cayley, a scout from DNA Models.
