There are models who stand in front of the camera, and there are models who quietly understand its language.
Kit Price belongs somewhere in between — suspended in that fragile space where image becomes both identity and illusion.
In his digital cover for Vanity Teen, Kit emerges as the first face of a new editorial series dedicated to Prom Boys and Prom Girls — a contemporary reimagining of adolescence through fashion’s dream logic.
The project opens like a yearbook that never existed but somehow feels familiar: twelve covers, twelve months, twelve constructed memories that will eventually form a single annual book, echoing the nostalgic architecture of American high school yearbooks.
Kit inaugurates this sequence not as a character, but as a threshold — the first page of a story still learning how to define itself.
Across the interview, he moves with a quiet refusal of certainty. He speaks about invisibility in front of the camera, about perfection as a toxic illusion, about how no photograph can fully contain a person — only fragments, versions, rehearsals of self. And yet, there is no drama in his distance. Instead, there is calm observation, as if he is watching his own image being edited in real time, somewhere between participation and detachment.
Fashion, for Kit, is not a mask he wears — it is a language he is still learning to speak fluently, even when it translates him into someone slightly unfamiliar.
Off-duty, he returns to stillness: friends, family, silence against the machinery of visibility. On camera, he becomes something else entirely — not false, but filtered through the strange physics of fashion itself.
In a moment where aesthetics shift like chairs in an endless game of musical chairs, Kit stands inside the instability without trying to fix it.
Chanel, Bottega Veneta, and the emerging language of Egonlab orbit his attention, while Jonathan Anderson’s next chapter at Dior becomes something to watch rather than define.
This is not a portrait of certainty. It is a study in transition — of a face becoming a language, and a language still deciding what it wants to say.
If fashion is a mask, when do you feel most unfiltered?
I’m probably the most authentic version of myself when I’m with friends and family, enjoying moments of stillness against the chaos of fashion.
When did you realize your image could become a language?
It still surprises me to this day that my image is something that people are intrigued by. I just hope that I can continue to build on it and connect with people who share the same interests.
Do you feel more seen or more invisible when you’re in front of the camera?
Probably more invisible. I find that I’m often portraying versions of myself rather than my truest nature.
What bores you about perfection?
The toxicity it has on the human brain.
If you had to destroy one dominant aesthetic today, what would it be—and why?
Not to rustle any feathers here, but probably gothic… It’s just not for me.
How much of you is left outside the images the world consumes?
I do my best to show as much of myself in a singular image as possible, but you’re never going to truly understand someone through a photograph.
If your career were a ‘90s underground film, what would its title be?
The Price is Alright.
In fashion, what’s your obsession right now—a brand you feel connected to, a favorite label, or a collection or moment that still lives in your head?
Fashion is like an exciting game of musical chairs at the moment, there’s been a lot of change.
I think Chanel and Bottega Veneta have found their feet really well.
I’m excited to see more from Johnathan Anderson at Dior.
But my favourite look from our shoot was from Egonlab who have been doing some really nice stuff in the background.
You’re the star of our April digital cover, and your story is inspired by the classic American prom boy—have you ever been to a prom like that?
What’s your funniest or wildest memory from it—or the one you wish you had?
I never had your stereotypical american prom, funnily enough they weren’t big on those in Malaysia, so it was fun to envision what that might’ve looked like through the eyes of vanity teen.
If I had been to a prom when I was younger, I can assure you I won’t have been as well dressed as I was for this one.
TEAM CREDITS
Model: Kit Price at New Madison Models
Photographer: Alfonso Anton Cornelis
Stylist + Interview: Luca Imbimbo
Casting Director: Olivier Duperrin
Videographer: Selma Bensalah
Cover Designer: Davide Caruso
Grooming: Jasmine Bouguermouh
Photo Assistant: Etienne Oliveau & Paul Naophell
Styling Assistant: Alegria Haro
Fashion Editor: Corinna Fusco
Jewelry by Mandana