Back in the day, in the times before Vogue Runway and its predecessor, Style.com. Way earlier than Instagram and TikTok—and screenshots. And certainly prior to images of fashion shows becoming easy to find and instantly available. Back then, fashion editors—think Grace Coddington and others of her ilk—would sketch doodles of runway looks to refer to when making their edits. Save for a few illustrators sharing their work online—say, Richard Haines or Pepe Muñoz—this practice has all but disappeared.
That’s until this weekend, when I unlocked my phone to a message from Ignacio Murillo, Vogue’s global casting director, urging me to look at Luna Yohannan’s Instagram profile. The breakout model—she debuted on the runway at Michael Rider’s first show for Celine earlier this year in July—has been sharing illustrations of the runway looks she’s worn this spring 2026 season. In New York: Tory Burch, Altuzarra, Coach, Ralph Lauren, and Jason Wu. They’re playful and sweet; joyful, even. They look more like poster illustrations than straightforward fashion croquis. Yohannan gives her figurines—or herself as a figurine—charming personalities.
A native New Yorker, Yohannan graduated from high school last year and planned on taking a gap year before enrolling at Wesleyan University in Connecticut to study biochemical engineering—a true multi-hyphenate, this one. She had been working at Indochine, a restaurant downtown, as a hostess. “I knew it was a fashion spot,” she said last Friday, calling from her Airbnb in Milan, “but one night this guy comes in and asks me who I’m signed with, I was just like, ‘Do you have a reservation?’” she laughed. Yohannan gave him her Instagram and moved on, though, as it turns out, he was a friend of Butterfly Cayley, a scout from DNA Models.
Yohannan calls herself the “queen of side hustles,” she still works at Indochine, plus the Strand bookstore and occasionally shucks oysters on the East River. “I’m jumping around all of my interests because… I can!” she said with a laugh. Her passion for art, she said, has always been a part of her and was partially ignited by her dad, who had been a colorist for Marvel. “It started with the Ralph [Lauren] show, I was feeling so feminine and beautiful, so I drew the look,” she said.
Her original gap year plan was to backpack through Australia, where she ended up going once signed for “development”—building a portfolio and other key components of developing a modeling career. She backpacked after, returning to New York to kick off her career properly. “I really fell in love with the creativity of modeling because it’s so similar to art,” she said, “I’m just having the time of my life.” Yohannan had already developed the habit of drawing the looks she wears at fittings or for other jobs outside the runway, in addition to drawing her model buddies at castings. “It was a way for me to show my agents the looks they fit me in,” she said, not unlike how those editors of yore used to operate.
