Quentin: the model student

She is in her first year of reading philosophy at one of the best universities in the world.

As a Cambridge undergraduate she spends hours poring over literature on Hume and Plato at Fitzwilliam College.

But there is another side to Quentin Jones who was among the line-up of student models who appeared on the catwalk for the second Cambridge University fashion show last week.

Unlike her fellow students on the runway she is already earning thousands of pounds as a semiprofessional model.

Under the guidance of the agency Storm, Quentin, from Camden, has already appeared in a new Levis campaign.

During her gap-year last year she earned £15,000.

Her parents, Edward and Margo, both architects, do not supplement her studies so she is using the proceeds of her modelling to ensure she can leave university almost debt-free.

Quentin, 20, said: "I have got it easier than some of my friends at university.

"We get quite long holidays at Cambridge so hopefully it will work out well and I can keep working during the summer.

"I never thought about modelling, it hadn't crossed my mind until there was a Storm career evening at school and someone approached me.

"Your modelling career usually ends by the time you are around 27 so it is not going to last forever.

"I think I have a quirky look rather than classically beautiful.

"My parents are not entirely keen on it and they push me to use my brain. But my mum trusts me, she knows I can handle it," she said.

"I don't know what I want to do when I finish university, something in media or broadcasting"

Head of Storm, Sarah Doukas, said: "She's got a body to die for, a luminously beautiful face, a brilliant mind, and the cheekiest, flirtiest manner."