This Swedish gent fitted engines for Volvo and was a cocktail waiter before being discovered by Gucci. Handsomely paid as a model, Robert Konjic was described as being half of what the Evening Standard called “fashion’s hottest couple” with Julia Restoin Roitfeld (daughter of former editor-in-chief of Vogue, Carine Roitfeld). The couple had a daughter before splitting in 2013.

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Ariana Rockefeller
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Ariana Rockefeller Bucklin

The daughter of John Rockefeller, Jr. founded her eponymous fashion house in 2011.

Erika Bearman
From the same Steeple territory

Erika Bearman

A director of communications at Oscar de la Renta, Erika Bearman describes herself as “reporting from inside one of the world’s most prestigious fashion houses”.