Babacar N’Doye

Babacar N’Doye is a British model from London whose runway debut came at Christopher Bailey’s final Burberry show in February 2018. That introduction began a career in which the British house became a recurring connection, alongside international runway work and fashion photography.

Babacar was discovered a few weeks before his sixteenth birthday while on his way to meet his father at the gym. He initially thought the woman who approached him wanted directions; she became his agent, and he signed with Elite London the following summer.

Recalling the encounter in a 2019 interview with Vogue France, he also described the adaptability that runway work required. “Each house has a heritage and tells a specific story,” he said, translated from French. Different designers asked him to emphasize different aspects of his personality, making the work a form of interpretation.

By the spring-summer 2020 menswear season, Babacar had walked nineteen shows, including Dior, Fendi, and Berluti. Advertising followed that early runway momentum, with appearances for BOSS and COS, then AMIRI’s spring-summer 2023 campaign.

Burberry remained a thread through his career as its creative leadership changed. His work for the house extended to its winter 2024 advertising under Daniel Lee and the high summer 2026 campaign, photographed by Ryan McGinley alongside Tom Blyth. The relationship developed from an important first show into repeated campaign casting.

Magazine work gives Babacar a setting in which to develop a character across several photographs. His Hunger editorial with Andrew Yee used saturated color and expressive styling, adding another chapter to a portfolio rooted in the runway’s changing demands.