New Chanel maestro Matthieu Blazy takes the credit for discovering Indian model Bhavitha Mandava, an NYU tech masters student he scouted on the New York subway when he was still creative designer at Bottega Veneta.

Wind forward a year, after walking for Bottega and Dior, the 25 year old qualified architect from Hyderabad has gone viral as the first ever Indian model to open a Chanel show, after wowing in a normcore look on Chanel's Metiers d'Art catwalk at a Manhattan subway station. Now signed to Premier, the social media buzz around Mandava shows no sign of quieting down, with fans hailing her as 'the new face of Chanel'... cue the campaigns!