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(NEW YORK) Proving that Kate Moss shouldn’t be the only supermodel to get an issue of Vogue, Gemma Ward just wrapped her own issue of the Conde Nast title. Calvin Klein’s latest “obsession” edits the December issue of Vogue Australia—fitting, since she hails from the land down under. In the issue, Ward recounts, in detail, her experiences from the recent New York, Milan, and Paris shows for a fashion runway diary that was documented by photographer Malon Stolzman. “When models do diaries of their fashion week experiences, you never know if they are real,” said Maja Edmonston, Ward’s manager at IMG Models. “She really documented every day of fashion week, every night she went out, every fitting. She went through the process to really give an idea of yes, that it can be glamorous but exactly how much they work those six weeks.” [IMG Models, like The Daily, are both part of IMG]

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September 12, 2005 \ Source

Gemma Ward – one of Australia’s most valuable exports in the fashion industry – was chosen to grace the covers of the inaugural Vogue China. The first issue of Vogue China sold over 300,000 copies in only the first three hours and is set to be a one of the most promising ventures for publishers Conde Nast International who have also enjoyed recent success in the Russian market.

Ward who is not even 18 is one of todays most sought after models rumoured to be earning over 20,000 each runway show. She replaced Kate Moss in the Calvin Klein Obsession campaign, is fronting the style and design issue of Time magazine and is currently considered the no. 2 model in the world.

September 11, 2005 \ Source

She’s Australia’s multimillion-dollar babe, making a fortune at the top of the fashion world – and all before she’s 18.

Now Gemma Ward, the Perth beauty whose features have been described as “alien”, has launched her lucrative looks on the world’s biggest emerging fashion market, China.

Ward secured a coveted place on the cover of the first issue of Vogue China, which launched with much fanfare into the Asian market last week – with a staggering 300,000 copies sold in the first three hours.

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With an angelic face and delicate features Gemma Ward continues to demonstrate what it means to look like a supermodel. Her look is versatile and her doe like eyes instantly bring a picture to life.

Discovered by Viviens Model Management, the 18yr old Australian model has worked on various campaigns, shows and covers ranging from Vogue to Helmut Lang. At 16 she was one of the youngest models to be picked by Anna Wintour as one of the nine “It Girls” of the supermodel world. Lets hope unlike the models of today, she’s here to stay.

October 30, 2004 \ Source

From school in the suburbs to the top fashion catwalks, Valerie Lawson charts the rise of Aussie supermodel Gemma Ward.

Two years ago Gemma Ward dressed each day in a navy skirt with either a polo top or blue and white checked shirt, her secondary college uniform. Today, she wears chiffon, lace, tulle, silk, fur, diamonds, leather, velvet, crocodile skin and satin.

In New York, Paris and Milan, she sways down the runway in that weird pony walk of today’s models as she parades the clothes of Valentino, Oscar de la Renta, Versace, Balenciaga, Gucci and Marc Jacobs.

In double-page ads for Prada and Yves St Laurent, she gazes from the glossy pages of Vogue, Tatler and Harpers Bazaar, her mouth impossibly red and bee stung, her wide-set green eyes resembling a china doll’s.

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What a week! The Calvin line-up in suspense right up until the morning of the shows. Emergency calls for fit models at 2 in the morning. More cancellations than it would be wise to repeat…But as the dust settles it was Gemma Ward who loomed large during the FW04 NY shows, swooping through virtually every major show in existence. This Aussie opened Zac, Vera Wang, and Narciso to make it clear that she is that second season girl who has clearly been groomed for stardom. That IMG just won’t stop, will it!