Nora Attal - Maroccaine - 1m76 - 7/60/87
Agence
Viva
Dazed & Confused
Février 2015
Jennifer Esson
Vogue Grande-Bretagne
Mars 2017
Ward Ivan Rafik
Elle fait de la peinture et joue du piano sans partition. J'ai commencé le piano très tôt. Je crois que j'avais 5 ans. Je ne sais pas lire les partitions. Mais ça ne m'empêche pas de jouer plein de trucs, surtout Mozart. Et puis je m'aide avec les tutos YouTube. Je dois avoir l'oreille musicale. 2. Mais elle n'a rien d'une fille sérieuse … J'en ai peut-être l'air mais je ne suis pas sage ! J'essaie de ne pas l'être. Je fais des trucs de grand-mère mais ça ne m'empêche pas de m'amuser à côté et d'être un peu folle. 3. Et n'a aucune autorité sur ses frères et soeurs. C'est pas trop mon truc de donner des ordres. Je suis la plus âgée de la fratrie mais je ne me sers jamais de mon rôle de grande soeur pour leur faire dire ou faire ce que je veux. Je n'ai réellement aucune autorité. 4. Elle est marocaine mais n'aime que les sushis. Mes parents sont marocains. On y retourne chaque année, l'été. J'adore partir à la recherche de petites criques isolées, sauvages sur la côte. Mais je déteste la nourriture marocaine ! Enfin j'aime le couscous. Mais je préfère les sushis. Ça n'a rien de marocain, je sais. 5. Plus tard, elle veut étudier la criminologie à l'université. J'aimerais au moins une fois me retrouver dans la tête d'un criminel. Ça doit être fascinant. En attendant, je m'entraine avec la série American Horror Story.
6. Jamie Hawkesworth l'a repérée à l'école, quand elle avait 13 ans. C'est grâce à lui que j'ai vraiment décollé. J'ai été prise pour ma première campagne pour J.W Anderson en 2014. Et à 16 ans j'ai signé avec l'agence Viva. Maintenant, je peux vraiment dire que je suis mannequin ! 7. En parlant de Jonathan Anderson… Il est si drôle avec son air sérieux ! C'est un très grand créateur, je l'admire beaucoup. Avec Benjamin Bruno, ils se taquinent et se chamaillent tout le temps pour savoir quelle musique mettre. J'adore les regarder se battre, ils sont tellement mignons. 8. Elle ne connaissait rien à la mode avant de devenir mannequin. Je pensais vraiment qu'on pouvait débarquer à un défilé sans rien, comme catapultée et se retrouver sur le podium au saut du lit. En fait c'est un peu plus compliqué que ça. 9. Elle rêve de palmiers et de couchers de soleil tous les soirs avant de s'endormir. J'adore les couchers de soleil. Les palmiers. Les plages. Je rêve de soleil tout le temps. Ma chambre est tapissée avec un papier-peint qui représente une plage tropicale. Comme ça j'ai l'impression d'y être tous les jours. 10. Elle préfère trainer avec les filles. Les garçons ne comprennent rien à nos discussions. La dernière fois, on parlait du RuPaul Show et des drag queens avec mes copines. C'est un univers qui me fascine. Les garçons sont arrivés et nous ont dit : ''C'est quoi ces mecs qui se déguisent en filles ?'' Bref, ils sont un peu à côté de la plaque parfois, non ?
13 Nov INTERVIEW WITH MODEL NORA ATTAL Posted at 13:38h in Blog Posts, Interview by I The J. W. Anderson campaign was just the starting gun to British Nora Attal’s career, who was named one of Model.com’s Top Newcomers in their breakout season category this season. After her appearances at Dior’s Cruise show in Blenheim Palace, Prada’s Resort show, as well as walking in Fendi’s Fall 2016 Couture show on the Trevi Fountain, she returned in September with a bang. Opening for J.W. Anderson and Acne Studios, and walking for elite brands such as Burberry, Prada and Céline. Miss Attal is flying the flag high for the rise of the new British models.
Did you have an interest in wanting to become a model or fashion, prior to being signed to an agency? To a degree yes, as when I was younger I would watch America’s next top model and the British version too and I thought maybe I could do that, but I always doubted myself as I didn’t really know the industry and if I would just be ‘another model’ and not anything special. But it was my dad who initially started talking about modelling, then I got scouted a couple times so it gave me more confidence in my self. J. W. Anderson and Loewe have thus far been huge players in launching your career. How did this relationship develop? When I was 14 Jamie Hawkesworth came to my school at the time, and did a casting for the J.W Anderson campaign, and one day they announced that I was chosen. From there Jonathan Anderson also shifted me to his other brand, Loewe. Is there something significantly different working with Jonathan Anderson and his team, compared to working with other brands? Yes, I have been working with the team for a couple of years now and so its more like going back to friends and people who I know. Their whole team is so lovely including Jonathan.
A huge congratulation on your success during Fashion Week Month! What has been your highlight of this whirlwind experience? Firstly, thank you! And there are so many highlights working with new brands such as Versace, was an amazing experience and a new vibe to what I started with. Doing Loewe and JW, I always enjoy doing. Fashion Week is stressful in itself, but you were also revising for exams! How did you effortlessly manage to juggle the two? I didn’t do any shows but Prada in Milan and I only did shows after school and during the weekend in LFW, so my agency where very good at juggling it so I didn’t miss much. You’ve shot for magazines such as i-D, Document Journal and Vogue Germany. What has been a stand-out moment for you out of all these experiences? They are all different experiences but to me they felt like a normal shoot, until you see the reaction from people, then you realise how big the job was. Do you prefer runway or shoots? I’m not sure, their both very different. But I do like them both
Who do you look up to in the industry? Model wise, probably Cara Delevingne, for the reason that from her recognition from doing modelling, she been able to do other things from it and promote charities. Outside of the fashion hemisphere, what do you find inspiring or interesting? I find things that I don’t know a lot about most interesting. And lastly, what is something you’d like to do but have not done yet? Both in fashion and in your personal life? I would want to do a big cover in the future, like British Vogue, maybe in a few years. I used to play piano again I used to play it really well, so I would like to pick that up again. Thank you Nora, and we wish you the best of luck for your future endeavours! – I Featured image courtesy of i-D France, by François Pragnère
Nora Attal is 17-year old Moroccan model based in London. Signed to Viva Model Management, the brunette beauty was first discovered by Jonathan Anderson of J.W Anderson, whom she shot a campaign for in 2014 (before even hitting the catwalk.) Attal has since propelled her fashion career by working with a number of renowned designers and stylists, and walked the runways of major fashion houses including Fendi and Chanel. With her enviably thick brows, doe-eyed gaze and demure aura, Attal is one of the Spring 2017 Ready-to-Wear season’s most successful new faces, showing up for Dior, Simone Rocha, Céline, Prada and J.W. Anderson before catching a flight back to London to write her exams. See her best Spring 2017 Ready-to-Wear runway moments here.