Meet British male supermodel Kit Butler: he debuted at 16 for Coach, but his work with Balenciaga and Versace catapulted him into the ranks of David Gandy and Tyson Beckford
Butler was discovered while working as a forklift driver – now he goes to Beyoncé concerts with Donatella Versace and walks for the likes of Jacquemus and Dolce & Gabbana
Having lived in Italy for six years, the model is also fluent in Italian, so perhaps it was meant to be that Butler would one day go on to walk runways for major fashion labels in Milan.
Here’s everything you need to know about Kit Butler.
He’s an athlete turned model
Butler was born on May 12, 1998, in Oxford, England, to parents Tim and Christine, who described themselves as “ordinary academic folk” in an interview with GQ in March this year. However, when Butler was five years old, the family moved to Italy where the future model attended an elite private school in Verona, according to Business of Fashion.
Growing up, Butler had no interest in fashion or modelling and instead, as a proficient skier and rugby player, had plans to become a physiotherapist. But at just 16, his plans for a relatively normal life were scuppered when he was scouted by Mackie Alcantara, a former model, while working at an aeroplane hangar as a forklift driver.
