The Crush: Lucky Blue Smith

If you are older than 21, you are no doubt thinking, ‘Is that his real name?’ But if you are under 21 and in possession of an Instagram account, you probably knew last week that the model/internet-sensation was going to appear on this page today and have been camping outside Crush’s office waving your underpants ever since (please leave now).

Lucky Blue Smith is an American model. He’s only 16 and prettier than Leonardo DiCaprio circa 1996, with a shock of dyed silver hair, the softest skin and piercing blue eyes. He’s all lithe and androgynous in the way that makes teenagers and lesbians swoon and everyone else think, ‘What is the appeal of this alien man child?’

But even if you don’t get his good looks, you’ve got to give him some kudos for creating such frantic levels of hype despite only having been modelling for ten minutes. He walked in his first shows this year for Sacai and then bagged Gap, CK One and H&M campaigns, but already he has 700,000 Instagram followers and 90,000 on Twitter, all of whom cravenly favourite and retweet his posts, which range from pouting portraits to bon mots such as ‘babe let’s go to prom’.

At the menswear shows in Paris in January, Bluey tweeted, ‘Come meet at 4pm at the Jardin des Tuileries!!’ and 100 screaming girls turned up to run after him (Crush just happened to be passing, OK?). And just when you thought he couldn’t get any dreamier: Lucky Blue has three older sisters — Pyper America, Daisy Clementine and Queen Starlie — and is in a surf-rock band with them called The Atomics. There are not enough heart-eyed emojis in the world to describe our desire to Get Lucky.