Photography by Lea ColomboFashion / IncomingOn The Front Line: Lea ColomboOur photographer Lea Colombo shares her New York Fashion Week diaryShareLink copied ✔️September 12, 2013FashionIncomingTextDazed DigitalPhotographyLea ColomboLea's NYFW Diary This fashion week season, Lea Colombo will hop from New York, to London, to Milan, to Paris, covering the backstage moments and catwalk shows of the high fashion designers and avant-garde visionaries for Dazed Digital. Originally from Cape Town, South Africa, 20-year-old Lea now resides in Paris. Her distinct and original photography style belies her years; her multi-layered, film-like images capture the atmosphere of a show, whether that be the unnerving entrapment of women under strip lighting at Prabal Gurung SS14, or the super-car super-luxury performance of Opening Ceremony’s SS14 debut. Some of Lea’s most enthralling images however, are her model portraits: shining a beautiful light on the individual personalities we rarely see on the catwalk. Here Lea presents her New York Fashion Week as an arresting diary of portraits. Zuzanna Bijoch at Next Models, backstage at Prabal Gurung SS14Photography by Lea Colombo @BijochZuzanna Cristina Herrmann at Next Models, backstage at Prabal GurungPhotography by Lea ColomboAshley Smith at Marylin, backstage at Jeremy Scott SS14Photography by Lea Colombo @gappylady Marie Piovesan at The Society, backstage at Tommy Hilfiger SS14Photography by Lea ColomboExpand your creative community and connect with 15,000 creatives from around the world.READ MOREOoh Be Gah! Your fave Coach fits just landed in The Sims 4Golden Globes 2026: A best dressed blackout for Hollywood’s biggest starsDemna drops his first Gucci campaign, plus more fashion news you missedBella Hadid resurrects Saint Laurent’s iconic 00s It-bagThe coolest girls you know are still wearing vintage to the gymYour AW26 menswear and Haute Couture cheat sheet is hereJeremy Allen White and Pusha T hit the road in new Louis Vuitton campaignNasty with a Pucci outfit: Which historical baddie had the nastiest Pucci?Inside the addictive world of livestream fashion auctionsCamgirls and ‘neo-sluts’: Feral fashion on the global dancefloorBrigitte Bardot: Remembering the late icon’s everlasting styleA look back on 2025 in Dazed fashion editorials