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Bhavitha Mandava, an Indian model, recently made headlines by opening the Chanel Metiers d'Art 2026 collection in New York City . The 25-year-old, who hails from Hyderabad and is an architect by profession, was scouted at a subway station in NYC. She had moved to the US for her studies in assistive technology and had no plans to venture into modeling.

Career start

Mandava's modeling journey began unexpectedly

Mandava signed as an exclusive model for Bottega Veneta's Summer 2025 collection just two weeks later. Fashion influencer Viren H Shah shared her story on Instagram . He highlighted the poetic irony of Mandava opening Matthieu Blazy's Chanel collection in the same subway station where her modeling career began. Showin Bishop, founder of 28Models, said on the

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