We’re starting the year off the way we mean to go on, with an incredible feminist supermodel on the cover of ELLE’s February 2014 issue: Cameron Russell.

The American model has starred in campaigns for and walked for everyone from to , but is equally famous for her opinions – her TED talk about life in front of the camera has been viewed over 2.7 million times.

The Columbia politics graduate said then that her success in modelling was solely down to ‘winning the genetic lottery’ – and she is equally outspoken in her ELLE interview by acclaimed journalist Emma Brockes.

Kai Z Feng shot Cameron for the February issue of ELLE in Palm Springs, where she wears new season designs from and .

The brand new issue of ELLE hits newsstands on Thursday, 2 January.

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