Kit Butler is one of the few men in fashion to earn the title of a “supermodel”. Only a handful of women and even fewer men have laid claim to the “super” prefix since the days when Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell and their fellow supers ruled the runways. Other notable male supermodels include the likes of Tyson Beckford, David Gandy and Marcus Schenkenberg.

At only 27 years old, the British model has racked up a résumé that’d make any model green with envy; one peppered with legacy brands such as Gucci, Loro Piana and Burberry. Most recently, Butler walked the runway for the Giorgio Armani spring/summer 2026 Men’s Fashion Show in Milan.

Having lived in Italy for six years, the model is also fluent in Italian, so perhaps it was meant to be that Butler would one day go on to walk runways for major fashion labels in Milan.

Here’s everything you need to know about Kit Butler.

Butler was born on May 12, 1998, in Oxford, England, to parents Tim and Christine, who described themselves as “ordinary academic folk” in an interview with GQ in March this year. However, when Butler was five years old, the family moved to Italy where the future model attended an elite private school in Verona, according to Business of Fashion.

Growing up, Butler had no interest in fashion or modelling and instead, as a proficient skier and rugby player, had plans to become a physiotherapist. But at just 16, his plans for a relatively normal life were scuppered when he was scouted by Mackie Alcantara, a former model, while working at an aeroplane hangar as a forklift driver.

“I didn’t know much about fashion,” Butler told GQ about the moment Alcantara approached him. “I didn’t know it was a real job. All I knew was what I’d seen in The Devil Wears Prada. So I actually slightly laughed at him and said, ‘Oh, good one, I’m gonna get back to work,’ and drove off.”