Victoria Vesce Slays The Runway At New York Fashion Week

At New York Fashion Week Fall 2025 under the lights of Art Hearts Fashion, there are faces that captivate the runway, whose presence you spot again and again—not just for their looks or walk, but for the stories that echo behind them. Among them, Victoria Vesce stands out—not only as a model who slays each look, but as a survivor, an advocate, a truth-seller in an industry that too often favors gloss over guts.

Photo by Mark Gunter/Getty Images for Art Hearts Fashion

Victoria Vesce is more than just another name on the roster. She’s a performer, influencer, model, former NBA dancer, law graduate, and a brain tumor survivor whose journey shapes everything she brings to the stage. Years before the bright lights and high fashion moments, she encountered a rare diagnosis—multiple paraganglioma tumors: one near her brain, the other involving her carotid artery. She began experiencing hearing loss, migraines, and symptoms that were initially dismissed—until scans revealed the gravity of her condition.

The aftermath was brutal. Surgeries, radiation, and a period during which she lost fundamental abilities—walking, daily self-care, even independence. Today she bears a scar on her neck, permanent hearing loss in one ear, and tinnitus—but also a clean bill of health and a resilience that defines her presence. She hasn’t just recovered; she’s transformed. She didn’t return to life as it was—she rebuilt, reimagined, and redefined it on her own terms.

At NYFW this September, walking for Art Hearts Fashion, she showed up like the force she is. Her runway walk carries more than poise—there is gravity, authenticity, vulnerability, and triumph. When a model steps out wearing clothes, accessories, and makeup, the audience sees style; when Victoria steps out, they see someone who carries a story in every pose. She doesn’t hide the scar. She doesn’t airbrush out the past. She owns it. That ownership turns each photograph, each video clip, each TikTok story into something more than fashion—it becomes proof of survival, proof of what it means to live with courage.

Her success has layers: a strong social media following, law school credentials, advocacy through public speaking and awareness work, a swimwear line rooted in authenticity, and the honesty to share her journey—including loss, grief, and all the complex pieces in between. Yet she continues to build, to stride, to tell. Her brand is not just built on beauty, but on bravery.

What many don’t recognize is that vulnerability is now one of her greatest strengths. Fans see her silly dating stories on TikTok, her polished digital content, her confident runway walk—but behind those moments is someone who has looked mortality in the eye and decided to keep showing up, again and again.

When the camera is off, the work continues—therapy, self-care, healing. When the camera is on, she carries that realness across the runway. That makes every slayed look richer because it’s earned.

In a fashion world obsessed with image, Victoria Vesce reminds us that image can be powerful when it carries truth. She is one of the faces we see again and again at Fashion Week because she stands for what many of us long to see: that trauma does not have to erase brilliance, that scars—visible or not—do not disqualify, and that persistence is still the most compelling thing a person can wear.

As the shows fade and the lights dim, her journey, her presence, and her example linger. She’s not just modeling clothes; she’s modeling strength, hope, and the art of never giving up. And that is why Victoria Vesce isn’t just dominating TikTok with stories or owning the runway—she’s redefining what it means to survive with style.