First look: David Gandy’s model girlfriend Sarah Ann Macklin is smoking in velvet hot pants for online fashion brand Missguided
By TONI JONES
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Posing in a sheer shirt and crushed velvet hotpants it is easy to see why Sarah Ann Macklin is hot property right now.
The 5.9" brunette was already a successful model with London agency Select when she bagged supermodel David Gandy, and the beautiful couple have been causing a stir on the social scene since confirming they were an item back in May.
Essex boy David might be the world's highest paid male model, but in this fun look book shoot for internet fashion brand missguided.co.uk Sarah Ann shows that she too makes an excellent pretty face.
Gandy's girl: Sara Ann wearing a shirt, £24.99, and shorts £14.99 from missguided.co.uk's first in-house collection
We get it. she's hot: Model Sara Ann Macklin models a £44.99 coat and £32.99 heeled boots from the Manchester brand's autumn/winter range
The 5.9" brunette has been dating male supermodel David Gandy since May
Shot by fashion photographer Euan Banks on location at an East London Warehouse, the shoot features the brand's first in-house collection.
The Manchester based label was founded in 2009 and is now an award-winning retailer stocking over 3000 items.
The in-house designs showcased by Sarah Ann are heavily inspired by the catwalk, and the 90 piece range has a heavy emphasis on 'gothicology' and opulence, featuring dramatic fabrics like leather, velvet and jacquard.
Bowled over: Wearing shirt £22.99, trousers £27.99 and shoes £32.99 all by missguided.co.uk
Dressed down in style in a simple printed T-shirt, £12.99 and shorts £19.99, both missguided.co.uk
Key pieces include box jackets, printed peplums and embellished collars as well as - of course - those scarlet coloured hotpants.
On the day of the shoot the crew listened to Sarah Ann's iPod to get in the mood, including Kylie Minogue, Beyonce, Rhianna and even Elton John.
Not surprisingly, there was no music by The Saturdays being played.
Sara Ann is David Gandy's first girlfriend since he split with the girl group's Mollie King.
Following the spilt in February Gandy gave a barbed interview to a magazine blaming his perfectionism.
He told Men's Health: 'My perfectionism can make it difficult. I know my ex-girlfriend struggled.
'Things have to be perfect – everything in the house, every car I buy. That’s incredibly hard to live with if you don’t understand it.
'If either a relationship or my work must suffer, then I’m afraid it has to be the relationship. Hopefully, one day a girl will come along and I’ll think she’s far superior to my work and let my priorities go. That’s what I’m aiming for.'
Shine on: In a £39.99 pelmet style bandeau dress by the internet fashion brand, covered in sparkles
Attention! Army jacket £48.99, T-shirt £12.99 and shorts £19.99 all by missguided.co.uk
Sarah Ann, who according to her Select model card boasts a 32-24-34 figure, recently appeared in a sexy shoot for Esquire, where her brother Tom is Entertainment Director.
Despite their glamorous party-hopping image she insisted that life as part of a couple with David is all about walks in the country.
She told the magazine: 'We’d known each other for a few years, but at your Bafta party, we just clicked…' and revealed that there first date involved a game of family board game adding: 'We ended up playing six rounds of Jenga! It actually got quite competitive.'
Not exactly rock and roll, but when you look as good as these two would you care what you did on a date?
Super smooth: Super model David split with Saturdays' star Mollie King in February then started dating Sarah Ann in May after meeting her at a glitzy Esquire magazine party
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