Everything went like clockwork and Fernanda Tavares started scoring a number of smaller contracts and, as her portfolio increased, so did her reputation. In 1998, by the age of 17 she was already appearing on the covers of fashion magazines -- L'Officiel Paris, Marie Claire Deutsch + US and Vogue Paris, having signed up with the Marilyn Modeling Agency in both New York and Paris, arguably the two biggest fashion epicentres of the world, followed by Milan, of course. Fernanda has been walking down catwalks since 1998 for the world's biggest designers, including Chanel, Emanuel Ungaro, Herve Leger, Gianni Versace, Blumarine, Chloe, Christian Lacroix, Missoni, Prada, Salvatore Ferragamo, Valentino, John Galliano, Sonia Rykiel, Kenzo, and Yohji Yamamoto.