Meet the beauty industry’s most in demand casting director, Ashley Brokaw

The odd, unconventional looks of today’s most successful models are largely the result of the vision of one woman. Alice Gregory reports.

ASHLEY BROKAW is as familiar with skull shapes as a comparative zoologist, and knows the female gait as a jockey does the gallop of his racehorse.

She can glance at a teenage girl and guess her height, hip measurement and shoe size.