Baptiste Radufe walked his first Paris menswear season for the spring-summer 2012 cycle in 2011, and the debut was unusually heavy. He took the runway for brands like Prada, Jil Sander, and Yves Saint Laurent inside a single season, the cohort of houses a new face typically accumulates over three or four.

By spring-summer 2014 he was inside Kris Van Assche’s Dior Homme, the slot the French menswear circuit reserves for the faces it intends to keep.

The French model has stayed inside that circuit for fifteen years. Baptiste has fronted campaigns for Bottega Veneta, Gucci, Paul Smith, and Michael Kors, walked Fendi and Etro, and shot editorials for GQ Italia, Esquire España, and L’Officiel Hommes China.

The relationship that has defined the long arc is with Massimo Dutti, where he has held the seat across multiple seasons of capsule lookbooks for the same reason French houses keep returning to him. There is a face fashion casts when it wants Paris to feel like Paris, and Baptiste has been that face for more than a decade.