Rianne Van Rompaey

Van Rompaey was born on 3 January 1996 in Hoofddorp, North Holland, and raised in Wageningen, Gelderland, to Dutch and Belgian parents.^[6] She attended Montessori School there, and obtained a VWO diploma at Pantarijn College.^[7][8] Van Rompaey started her career by sending photographs to Paparazzi Models,^[9] and began modeling professionally as a high school student.^[10]

Van Rompaey's first photoshoot was for the January 2013 and February 2013 issues of Elle Netherlands.^[11][12]

In 2014, Nicolas Ghesquiere chose Van Rompaey to be a Louis Vuitton exclusive, which included campaigns for the brand including S/S 2016 with actor Jaden Smith.^[13][6] She has done campaigns for Chanel,^[14] Alexander McQueen, Valentino, Miu Miu, Chloé, Moschino, Celine, Ports 1961, Michael Kors, Fendi, Alberta Ferretti, Loewe, Sacai, Salvatore Ferragamo, Versace, Marc Jacobs, Isabel Marant, Prada, Coach,^[15] Bottega Veneta,^[16] Hugo Boss,^[17] and Burberry.^[18]

Van Rompaey has appeared on the covers of Vogue Italia,^[19][20] Vogue Paris,^[21] Vogue China, Vogue Germany, Vogue Japan, Vogue Korea, Vogue Russia, Vogue Netherlands and The New York Times Style Magazine,^[22] and Harper's Bazaar.^[23]

In 2016, casting director Piergiorgio Del Moro, who placed Van Rompaey in Versace, Victoria Beckham, and Fendi shows, told Vogue magazine that van Rompaey would have a long career because of her personality.^[24] Vogue Paris editor-in-chief Emmanuelle Alt corroborated this view.^[25]

In September 2019, for the 1000th issue of Vogue Paris, she simultaneously appeared on 4 covers; the same year she had appeared on March and May covers of the magazine.^[26] She also appeared on 3 covers for WSJ Magazine that month.^[27] In December 2019, she was chosen as runner-up for models.com's "Model of the Year" awards.^[28]

Van Rompaey was ranked on Models.com's "Top 50" models list in 2016, calling her "one of the year's biggest breakout stars".^[29] In the same year, ELLE UK and Harper's Bazaar UK predicted van Rompaey was on track to becoming a supermodel.^[30][31]

In 2024 she made her acting debut in Faces, a short film by Canadian director David Findlay.^[32]

In February 2025, Van Rompaey announced she was taking a break from modelling.^[33]