Model Sora Choi’s action-packed life, from New York Fashion Week to League of Legends
Twenty-six-year-old South Korean, one of fashion’s most in-demand faces, has walked for nearly every major designer, and loves anime and video games
Sora Choi is what you would call an accidental model. In fact, she may never have set foot on the runway if it weren’t for tagging along with a friend to a meeting at the model agency YGKPlus in Seoul. Once there, Choi was signed on the spot.
It did not exactly give her much time to consider her new career trajectory and she had never been interested in fashion.
“I used to love painting, so I always wanted to become an artist. I loved all forms of art, [especially] painting and drawing. But if I weren’t modelling today, I’d probably be unemployed,” says the five-foot-10-inch 26-year-old with a laugh.
Choi began working instantly, shooting with local designers and, soon after, with top photographer Hong Janghyun for the cover of women’s beauty magazine W Korea in 2012.
She made her international debut three years later when French fashion designer Nicolas Ghesquière selected her to walk the Louis Vuitton Cruise 2015 show in Monaco.
