"leading model" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a model or example that is considered the best or most influential in a certain field or industry. Example: The new smartphone from Apple has been touted as the leading model in terms of design and features.
"We're entering a new era with modelling," says Stefania Valenti, CEO of the world's leading model agency, Elite.
So he called up the leading model agencies, asking for subjects to photograph.
Those fans did not shy away from commenting about Clarke's relationship with a leading model, either.
It has become something else, too: the leading model of a new Russian capitalism that has emerged since President Vladimir V. Putin came to power in 2000.
His marriage to Lisa Fonssagrives, a leading model, an artist and his sometime collaborator, lasted 42 years, until her death at the age of 80 in 1992.
Church of new faith will be the studios and Hollywood will be a holy city with no divorce or scandals, all leading model lives.
Unknown to Whalen, North covered the leading model with an Indian blanket, and told her to put on the wig when she threw the blanket off.
The leading model railroad manufacturers are just beginning to sell online (their loyalty is still to local retailers, who get the best access to their inventory).
Her best friend and classmate was Mia Fonssagrives, daughter of Lisa Fonssagrives, the leading model of her day, and Fernand Fonssagrives, a noted French photographer.
Comic accidents bring her to the attention of Josef André, the haute-couture king, at whose Fifth Avenue salon she soon becomes the leading model and object of desire — unbeknownst to her husband.
Now, however, a huge ethical question mark hangs over the 44-year-old American whose shoots grace the pages of Vogue and Harper's Bazaar, after a leading model condemned his work as "degrading" and his modus operandi as manipulative.
