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10 Kid Models Who Are Taking The Fashion World By Storm

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A three-year-old just landed a national ad campaign, and the fashion industry can’t stop watching.

Runway casting used to mean adult models with years of agency experience behind them. Not anymore. A wave of child models — some barely out of toddlerhood — are booking major campaigns, walking for luxury houses, and in some cases pulling five-figure day rates before they’ve hit middle school. The video above tracks ten of the kids driving that shift, and the names behind it read like a who’s-who of fashion’s next generation.

• Hudson Kroenig made his Chanel runway debut in 2010 at age two and became a recurring muse for the late Karl Lagerfeld’s major catwalk shows.
• Romeo Beckham, son of David and Victoria Beckham, fronted Burberry’s Spring/Summer 2013 and 2014 holiday campaigns, with reports of five-figure day rates for eight-hour shoots.
• Lily Chee was discovered at age nine while grocery shopping with her father in Brooklyn, went on to model for Target and Nike, and later played young Elektra in Marvel’s Daredevil.

The Chanel Connection

Hudson Kroenig’s path into fashion runs directly through his father, Brad Kroenig, a longtime Chanel model, and his godfather, Karl Lagerfeld. Lagerfeld put Hudson on the runway at age two in 2010, and the boy has been a staple of the brand’s biggest presentations ever since, often walking alongside his dad. Few child models have that kind of built-in access to a house’s creative director — it’s a relationship that turned a toddler into a recognizable face at Chanel shows year after year.

The Beckham Effect

Romeo Beckham didn’t need a discovery story — his last name did plenty of the work — but Burberry still put him front and center as a genuine campaign face rather than a novelty. He shot the label’s Spring/Summer 2013 push and returned for the festive 2014 holiday campaign, with reports pegging his day rate at five figures for an eight-hour shoot. That kind of money for a kid still in school is exactly the shift that’s redefined what a “child model” can earn.

A five-figure day rate for an eight-hour shoot — Romeo Beckham was banking that before most kids his age had a part-time job.

From Grocery Aisle to Marvel Set

Lily Chee’s story is the closest thing this crop of models has to a Cinderella arc. She was nine years old, shopping with her father in Brooklyn, when a scout stopped them — and within a few years she was modeling for Target and Nike before crossing over into acting as young Elektra on Marvel’s Daredevil. It’s the kind of jump from catalog work to scripted television that a lot of adult models never manage, let alone a preteen. Readers curious about other young stars weighing the same leap from modeling into acting might recognize the pattern from Shiloh Jolie-Pitt’s own flirtation with the industry.

The Viral Wave Behind Them

Beyond the household names, the boom pulled in a stranger, more unpredictable set of breakout faces — albino twin models landing high-fashion editorials, toddler “it-girls” racking up campaign bookings before preschool, and commercial runway kids reportedly commanding tens of thousands of dollars a year without ever hitting high school. It’s a pipeline that didn’t exist in the same volume a decade earlier, and it’s changed how casting directors think about who belongs on a runway at all. For a longer view of how modeling careers actually play out over time, it’s worth comparing this new crop to the contestants tracked in who actually made it out of America’s Next Top Model.

Hudson Kroenig is still years away from being old enough to walk without a chaperone backstage, and he’s already logged seven-plus years on Chanel’s runway. That’s the real story here — not a novelty act, but a genuine career clock starting at age two.