Chiswick girl is new face of Topshop

For years Imogen Newton has spent her pocket money on Topshop's latest designs. Now the

The teenager's face adorns the windows of the Oxford Street store after she was discovered while watching Sister Act the Musical at the London Palladium last year.

Since then, the 5ft 10in student's modelling career has taken off. She has modelled for British designer Erdem, appeared in French Vogue and Arena magazine and is set to make her British Vogue debut in October.

She told the Standard: "I'm very excited and the timing seemed right, as long as I could fit it around school.

"I obviously will be delighted if things go well. But I would always want to keep other work going, I'd want a bit of reality — and anyway, this could all end tomorrow."

Imogen has just completed GCSEs and wants to study English literature at university.

Natalie Hand, chief executive of Viva London model agency, said: "Imogen is exceptional ... We realised she was a complete natural early on. There is no limit to where her career can take her."