Twenty-seven-year-old Quentin Jones is regarded assomething

Twenty-seven-year-old Quentin Jones is regarded assomething of a Renaissance woman. She's a model, a philosophy graduate and one of fashion's brightest young film-makers, specialising in a cartoonish style of surreal photo-montaged animation.

"When I was at art school, anything 'fashionable' was frowned upon," says Jones, who studied her craft at London's Central Saint Martins. "I jumped straight into this from a BA at Cambridge, so spent a lot of time playing catch-up and making up my own way of doing things. Maybe this is why my style is so slap-dash."

But there is a precision present in much of Jones's work, in her films created for brands like Chanel and designer Holly Fulton, where montaged images are overlaid with graffiti-style collaging, everything building to an almost-kaleidoscopic vision of femininity, fashion and modern-day beauty.

"We start with a brief," she explains, "then there is manic sketching and scribbling, which needs to be decoded so other people get what I am thinking about. Then we make props, paint and prepare to shoot. After the shoot, I get to splat a bit more paint on top. This is my favourite stage: defacing the film with final collaged flourishes."

As well as commissions for numerous blogs and websites, Jones is currently creating a film for vogue.com. "Then I am going to take some time off to paint," she says. "Famous last words."