Lara Mullen: British model of the moment Homegrown beauty, Lara Mullen is well on the way to becoming one of autumn/winter 2012's most popular catwalk show girls. Six months ago the name Lara Mullen would have meant nothing to anyone, save her family and friends. But so meteoric has Mullen's rise to model fame been in the past half year, that she's on track to becoming the most popular catwalk girl of the autumn/winter 2012 season. Top ten show girls of spring/summer 2012 Spotted when she unknowingly asked Premier Models' director of scouting, Anthony Gordon to take a photo of her and a friend at a gig last August, the 17-year-old model, who hails from Northamptonshire, has had no ordinary start to her modelling career. Snapped up immediately for numerous New York shows, she was booked exclusively to walk for Milanese powerhouse and leader of the fashion world, Prada, within four weeks of her discovery, and hasn't looked back since. As well as starring in campaigns for Topshop and French brand Maje this season, and scoring the covers of both i-D and of Dazed and Confused's March issues, Mullen is also well on her way to notching up a record amount of shows at for autumn/winter 2012, having already walked on 35 catwalks in New York and London. And she's not just one of the background faces either, having opened for both the Unique and Mulberry shows on her home turf. Top 10 highest earning models After an exhaustive investigation last September, we found that Polish model Daga Ziober was the queen of the model castle with a huge 67 shows under her belt, but with over half that number already and two (longer) fashion weeks to go, our homegrown beauty may well be in with a chance of topping even that.