| General info : | | Adut Akech Bior (born 25 December 1999, South Sudan) is a South Sudanese-Australian model.
Akech made her fashion week runway debut as an exclusive in the Saint Laurent S/S 17 show and went on to close both their F/W 17 and S/S 18 shows as an exclusive.
In 2018, she was chosen as "Model of the Year" by models.com, an honour which was repeated the next year.
Akech was born in South Sudan (formerly part of Sudan), but was raised in Kakuma, Kenya. She was 7 years old when she moved away from Kenya along with her mother to Adelaide, Australia as South Sudanese refugees. Akech has five siblings.Akech was known as "Mary" in Adelaide, as Australian teachers found it difficult to pronounce her name.
Akech was introduced to the fashion industry by her family, and despite getting scouted multiple times by local modeling agencies when she was 13 and 14 years old, she started her modeling career at 16 years old, signing to her mother agency, Chadwick Models, in Sydney, Australia. Within the fashion industry, she prefers her birth name, Adut. | |
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