Joan Smalls’ favourite things

Top Puerto Rican model Joan Smalls on wanting to be an honorary Brit, her love of Givenchy and her ‘bipolar’ personal style.

BY Ellie Pithers | 21 September 2012

Joan Smalls, 24, is a Puerto Rican model currently ranked number one in the world on models.com. She has shot covers for Vogue Italia, Vogue Paris, Pop, i-D, V and W, and walked the runway for everyone from Tommy…

Mario Testino’s Mercedes-Benz campaign starring Joan Smalls

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Following in the footsteps of Nick Knight and Terry Richardson, celebrated photographer Mario Testino is the latest fashion luminary to step behind the lens for Mercedes-Benz.

Continuing the tradition of pairing leading fashion photographers and filmmakers with the world’s most beautiful women, Testino’s muse is supermodel Joan Smalls, who stars as an intergalactic beauty, wrapped and guarded like a masterpiece in an underground warehouse.

Smalls, dressed to…