What’s a fashion week in any of the world’s fashion capitals without a SAINT International model?

A rhetorical ask, really, as four faces from the Dewight Peters-led modelling agency were present and accounted for across the multitude of runways and lookbooks at New York Fashion Week (NYFW)’s unveiling of the Fall/Winter 2025 designer collections which concluded the six-day spectacle on February 11. 

The Jamaican trio of Portland-born Winston Lawrence, Sligoville-raised Romaine Dixon, and St. Elizabeth-descended Tami Williams joined their Nigerian SAINT compatriot Tomiwa to show off what menswear and womenswear will look like for fashion designers courting trend-conscious buyers shopping later this year.

Jamaica-born, Brooklyn resident designer Edvin Thompson, creative director and founder of the Theophilio label, called on SAINT’s Lawrence to be the male face of his lookbook collection, titled ‘The Morning After’ and unveiled on Day 2 at NFYW. 

Of his new men’s and women’s work, Thompson, the Emerging Designer of the Year winner at the 2021 Council of Fashion Designers of America Fashion Awards, explained: “I played with a mix of textures — wool, satin, lambskin leather with grommets, velour, ribbed knits and pony hair. The contrast between structure and fluidity was important to me.”

Dixon, a repeat face for womenswear designer Meruert Tolegen, walked her ready-to-wear show held in a ballroom space in downtown Manhattan, last Monday. He appeared in Look 15 of Tolegen’s 25-piece new collection, which stayed true to the designer’s Gothic feel with ancient references throughout her sculptural-focused whimsical creations.

Tomiwa, meanwhile, co-starred Canada-born, Big Apple-based womenswear designer Tanya Taylor’s latest. 

Presented as a 35 lookbook, Taylor’s collection featured English countryside elements seen in structured check jackets with a barn-like appeal, Denim and corduroy came together in a streamlined  skirt, styled with a hand-beaded pearl and diamante sweater that subtly nodded to the 1980s.

For SAINT’s Williams, the agency’s most eminent supermodel who is in the new Louboutin Beauty global campaign that dropped last month, she was on home turf in New York, where she’s based, for two Fashion Week appearances. 

The model delivered her signature sashay for designers Christian Siriano and Sergio Hudson.
For the latter, she strutted in separate looks — 17 and 38  — for a collection themed around classic American sportswear and punctuated by jewel-toned hues of red, purple and electric blue.

Siriano’s ready-to-wear collection was inspired by futurism, modern technology and the sleek lines of the automotive world. 

Post-show, in assessing his work, Siriano told Women’s Wear Daily magazine: “I wanted the whole beginning of this collection to feel cool and a bit more wearable and then it goes into my fantasy world that I love.”  

“It’s a testament to SAINT’s resonance in the global fashion space that after two-plus decades, our female and male models , season after season, are on the catwalks for designers in designer collection showcases from New York to Paris,” Peters told Our Today.

“I’m excited at what’s in the pipeline for our SAINTs and forever grateful for the blessings I have been afforded.”

Currently in the planning stages of a 25th anniversary to commemorate the founding of his world-renowned agency, Peters’ legacy as a Midas-touch model-maker continues to flourish.

His ever-expanding model universe has been featured in advertising campaigns including Balenciaga, Burberry, Chanel, Dior, Fendi, Ferragamo, Gucci, Miu Miu, Prada, Thom Browne and Valentino.