There’s a particular kind of chaos that occurs when fall break hits and thousands of college seniors descend upon Las Vegas. Apple Martin is in that chaos — texting friends, running on a 7:30 a.m. flight and three hours of sleep, trying to make sense of what 350,000 people are doing in Vegas in October. She laughs when I ask. “Vanderbilt doesn’t get a memorial day break like everyone else,” she says. “So we take advantage of fall break.” The 20-year-old is simultaneously fronting two glossy firsts with Gap and Self-Portrait — and she’s also in her senior year, which means last papers and late nights.

What’s striking is how naturally she carries it all—no performance, no pretense. Apple talks about her freshman self with clear-eyed humor: the version who thought she might be a lawyer, care

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