It’s appropriate for that supermodel Joan Smalls covered the September 2024 issue of Numéro France’s [IG] #247 Sensuel issue weeks before the recent Roberto Cavalli Spring 2025 show.

The Numero #247 story ‘Divine Joan’ is styled by MaherJridi with images by Fabien Montique [IG]. / Hair by Annesofie Begtrup; makeup by Harold James

Smalls joined other original favorite Roberto Cavalli models to close the Spring 2025 show in a post-founder world, now in the hands of creative director Fausto Puglisi.

Sensuality in all its forms lives in the DNA of the Puerto-Rican model and talent, who became the first Latina to represent Estée Lauder beauty.

In 2017, Joan Smalls fronted ‘Untamed Beauty’, part of Narcisse #7 ‘Wild Issue’. And she burned the house down to the ground in ‘Fight Fire with Fire’ by Steven Klein. Smalls joined Ajak Deng, Maria Borge and Riley Montana in utterly-scorching images for V Magazine #94 Spring 2015.

Returning to photographer Fabien Montique [IG], the fashion story ‘Love in Couture’ featuring Debra Shaw rocked the fall 2020 issue of CR Fashion Book in sensual elegance. In September 2023, Montique and Shaw met again with a red hot story for The Sunday Times Style.