Liu Wen and Joan Smalls: the new power faces of modelling

The Forbes power list of top models no longer features an all white lineup of women – which hopefully points to a long overdue change in the industry. The Forbes power list of top models no longer features an all
white lineup of women – which hopefully points to a long overdue change in the industry.Forbes has released its list of the top 10 highest paid models this week, and alongside the news that Gisele Bündchen (No 1) is raking in an estimated $42 million (approximately £23 million) a year, a notable highlight was that, for the first time, the list was not made up entirely of white women. Chinese model Liu Wen comes in at fifth place with £2.75m worth of annual earnings while Puerto Rican Joan Smalls was eighth, pulling in £2.2m.