Almost every interview with Paloma Elsesser begins with the same well-hashed anecdote: that the supermodel – she’s more than earned that accolade, right? – was born in a bathtub in Kentish Town. It’s the kind of mythologised, girl-done-good origin story that fashion (and pop culture more widely) has always been ravenous for. “I mean, humble beginnings,” Elsesser says, dialling in from a hotel room ahead of the 2025 Fashion Awards , her face freshly regenerated from a Fatma Shaheen facial. “But my parents were artist hippies. So, yes, I was born in a bathtub, but there was a doula. My mum would walk the length of north-west London drinking carrot juice and goat milk and castor oil, trying to induce my birth. That’s what that story really was. Bohemian parents doing something controver

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