One Wednesday in February, in the middle of what is surely the coldest New York Fashion Week on record, I am sitting in a corner booth having lunch at Balthazar, the bistro in SoHo that crawls with fashion people during the collections. I'm meeting a model named Doutzen. It is pronounced Doubt-zin, not Doot-zen. Practice it a few times. Concentrate. This will only take a second: Doubt-zin…Doubt-zin…Doubt-zin. She is from Holland, and her last name is Kroes, but that's not important right now. What is important, however, is that you learn to say her first name correctly because in about ten minutes she will be everywhere—L'Oréal television ads, billboards, the pages of Vogue—and you are going to want to be able to say her name as if you have known it all along.

"Hit Girls," photographed by Steven Meisel, has been edited for Style.com; the complete story appears in the May 2007 issue of Vogue.

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