
Hi.
Elsie here.
Elsie Buchanan | Muse and Companion in London and San Francisco
Artists model, editorial subject, writer, dilettante.
Available for cultural events & select social engagements globally.
I know you’re busy, so let's be efficient?
The sort of man drawn to me is particular about details, he wants clarity alongside his art.
The key information should help satisfy that instinct.
Further down, you’ll find my portfolio.
If what you see resonates, I welcome your contact.
Enjoy the verbose? Find my interview, or lurk my substack and twitter.
Sometimes I write for others.
Teach me something new? Enable my reading habit with a favour.
📍 Currently: shhhhhhh
Age: late 20s
Complexion: pale; ginger hair, blue eyes
Build: slender, unenhanced
Height: 175 cm / 5'9"
Weight: 57 kg / 125 lb
Measurements: 88-60-93 cm / 35-24-37"
Vices: non-smoker (non-vaping); light drinker
Education: BA & MA
Discretion: NDA fluent
Location: London, sometimes SF. Increasingly called about internationally :)
Travel: yes. Duh.
Synopsis: verbose, terminally punctual, not overly serious, loves romantics, known to haunt antique jewellery stores.
Quite pretty.
Through these small exploits, I’m hoping to meet a man
as interested as I am in seeing my form
captured for the ages —
in marble,
bronze,
oil paint,
ink.
Ideally all of the above. Possibly more.
E . B . Buchanan

Key Information

Everything below is considered for London, where I'm at home.
Take me elsewhere and the calculus changes; travel, time, and the rarity of the occasion all enter it.
Engagements beyond London are arranged per invitation and priced accordingly; tell me where you're thinking, and I'll tell you what it asks.
Rates are in sterling. For those who prefer to settle in metal, gold is welcomed and valued at prevailing spot - coin equivalents shown are indicative. Numismatists welcome :)
Enquiry
Exceptional introductions get exceptional responses - this is a meritocracy!
Please select and answer 3/5 questions below to qualify for consideration:
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Tell me a weird quirk you have?
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What topic do you think we'll connect most over?
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Genghis Khan takes over your day job for 24 hours. On a scale of 1-10 how well suited is he to the job, and how many people end up dying?
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Your 5 year old self is sitting the Mischel et al (1972) marshmallow experiment - what is the outcome? (My 5 year old self would have eaten the marshmallow)
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Are you a superstitious person?
Please answer all logistical questions:
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How you found me
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First and last name
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Preferred contact details (proton, telegram, signal, whatsapp)
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Location, date & time
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Date duration
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Preferred method of light screening (linkedin, work email, drivers license)
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Preferred method of 20% deposit (Revolut, discreet online platform, crypto, bank transfer at my discretion)
Please direct your completed enquiry to:
Note that all enquiries with incomplete information will not receive a response. Bye-bye.

Favours
Somebody once said that the greatest gift we get is time.
Wrong! It's actually rare first editions (also, weirdly patterned socks).
I keep a wishlist of titles over on Throne, under 'the reading pile'.
To those so inclined, check out 'material girl' as well for pieces of silk and lace.
You're the type to have excellent taste; I'd like to see what fashions you'd pick for me.
My sizes are listed below, but if at all unsure don't hesitate to ask.
Tops: 32C; UK 8 / US 4
Waist: XS / XXS; UK 6 / US 2
Bottoms: S; UK 8 / US 4
For the romantics out there (I know there's a lot of you), here's a hint: I love strange, sculptural flowers.
The redder, the better.
For the gourmands out there, have you tried the Marie Antoinette Tea macarons from Ladurée yet?
I'm a fiend for them.

The Interview
Why do you hide your face? Can I see it?
I have a career and life outside of being Elsie :)
I can't provide the type of discretion required for the men I see if I'm a known, identifiable figure. I go to a lot of events and the like around London and abroad.
No-one needs to know who I am, and besides, I get kicks from being a phantom.
And yes, of course you can see my face. When we meet in real life. It's a very pretty face, I used to use it for modelling.
Fine, then who are your celebrity look-alikes?
I don't get compared to celebrities too often, so I don't really know.
However, I have been told that the women in The Kelpie (Herbert James Draper, 1913), Flaming June (Sir Frederic Leighton, 1895), and Madeleine au Réveil (Augustin Peene, 1893) look like me. You're all far too kind.
How do you dress?
My go-to for afternoons and evenings is office appropriate and feminine, think heels, slacks and a button up. For dinners and events out, I dress it up a bit more, maybe a long dress, maybe mini skirt and turtleneck. If we're going about in the daytime I look great in blue jeans and a white tee.
Underneath? Full three-piece set with rolled-hem stockings, French lace, or commando. Roll the dice. You're a numbers guy, right?
Do you see couples?
Yes. Hand over your wife.
Do have a girlfriend?
Yes. Babygirl :)
Of course I use the term girlfriend not in the literal sense, but Babygirl is a friend like no-other of mine. She has a dry, quick sense of humour that could be called quintessentially British if not matched by her warmth, and a razor sharp intellect that to this day impresses me. No-one can compare to us together in a tête-à-tête, pun unintended but welcomed anyway.
We're a well-matched pair: same height, similar build, complimentary complexions. She's a tan, sun-kissed brunette with a megawatt smile and ridiculously small ears that I find so adorable.
I suggest planning as far in advance as possible, as she also has a full time career and commitments.
Will you see me with other companions?
Of course, I'd love to.
If you do, I suggest we plan extra time for us to all sip something nice and become well acquainted. It does a lot of the heavy lifting for the rest of the evening...
Do you host?
Nope - not at home in London, and not abroad. I'm a penthouse pet :)
If you'd prefer for me to arrange a hotel for privacy reasons, this can be accomodated. The cost of this will be discussed and approved with you during the phone call in the enquiry process, and will be added to the deposit required to secure our date.

What's your educational background? Industry?
I have two degrees, one that's artsy and one that's business-y. I don't necessarily use what I learnt in them in the day-to-day of my work, but they look great on a CV, and isn't that really what most non-technical degrees are anyway?
Work is a dangerously niche industry so I stay mum about that, but it affords me a lot of satisfaction and leeway for travel.
Why did you decide to start doing this if you have a good life outside of it?
I like money. I like travelling. I like buying antiques. I like interesting men. I like powerful men. I like when powerful men give me money and take me travelling and buy me antiques. I take my sensuality very seriously across all the senses. I'm young and I'm beautiful. You'd do it as well if you were me!
Will you ever go public about this?
Nope.
How do you spend most of your time?
The corporate overlords dictate my 9-6 weekdays, and my beloved friends dictate a fair chunk of the rest. However, when left to my own devices:
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I'm a world-class people watcher and the worlds finest armchair anthropologist.
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I may also be the worlds worst armchair macro-economist.
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Recovering scholarship kid, so I'm learning how to take work seriously, but not that seriously.
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On the streets of London they call me The Mach Five Nightmare on account of the lethal combination of long legs + fast gait. I sometimes walk two hours a day, not even for fitness, just pleasure (silver lining: I have great calves).
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I'm a huge bookworm. It's okay, you can boo and hiss if you'd like.
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Sometimes my friends drag me by the ankles out of my comfy home to shmooze around Mayfair with them, antics ensue. Have you ever had a £200 flute of champagne accidentally dumped on your chest by the guy you're trying to have a conversation with? Heavy air-quotes on the "accidentally" fwiw.
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Birdwatching.
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Clay shooting (unrelated to birdwatching)
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I collect vintage Playboy mags - 1953 to 1979. Only 313 editions, that's light work.
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I've been known to grab cheap flights and go exploring somewhere off the beaten path in Europe for a few days by myself (without telling anyone I'm leaving - I just disappear).
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Looking at myself nude in full-length triptych mirrors.
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Watching the waiters expression of dismay when I deliberately pick the best scotch on the list to have made into my Old Fashioned.
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Being underwhelmed at fancy airport lounges
I've been reliably informed that I don't live a normal life.
Throw a bunch of acronyms at me to give an indication of your personality!
INTP
Enneagram 5w4
The worlds most Apollonian presenting Venusian?
What are your pet-peeves? Little things you appreciate?
People who chew gum. People who chew their food with an open mouth. Obnoxious lip smacking and/or mouth noises. Freud would have something to say about me being highly critical of those with an oral fixation, and I disagree. I think the mouth is a highly sensuous part of the body and I hate to see it being used so crudely.
I love punctuality. People who don't take themselves so seriously.
What are your top recommendations for books and films?
Against Nature (À rebours) by J K Huysmans. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand (very hot, no sarcasm). In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin. Divine Enticement by Karmen Mackendrick. A lot of stuff by Wyndham Lewis.
Any of the old Bond films (or the TV series The Sandbaggers for its more grounded counterpart)
Recently I've been really enjoying A Spy Among Friends. Turn your VPN to Australia and you can watch it on SBS for free :)
What gives you a thrill?
Watching men play poker. I don't care to play poker, I don't really want to learn how to play it either. I just like watching men play, I like watching to see who will win and who will lose. It's a very civilised form of modern bloodsport.
Sometimes when I'm passing by a field where men are playing a sport like rugby or football, I slow down and make it a little obvious that I'm watching them. I like seeing them notice me and immediately start tussling each-other harder, trying to show off. It's good clean fun, they know exactly what they're doing, and so do I. Then I walk on and let them settle down.
I like watching men tussle. I would've been right at home in the Colosseum in its heyday. Let's not think too much about what that says about me as a person...
What sort of men do you like? What sort of men like you?
Intellectuals. Romantics. You were probably a (covert) nerd in school. Odd-balls. Men with a longing for something lost in a bygone era, a bygone sense of human relations. Dionysians with an Apollonian core. Men who like to indulge. Men who like to tussle. Smarty-pantses. Men with opinions, a sense of curiosity about the world.
Founders (exited). Founders (soon-to-exit). Founders (already exited 7 times and addicted to the thrill). Freakish operators who can get anything completed under any sort of adverse circumstance. C-suite suits who come from steel-cap boot beginnings. Blue-blooded aristos. Guy who went to Institut Le Rosey and is kinda embarrased about it. Nerds. Intellectuals. Romantics. Turbo-autists (affectionate).
There's a pattern but I'm still trying to decipher it.
Are you also on the spectrum?
I sought out an ADHD diagnosis for myself as an adult, and that explained a lot.
I have not sought out an ASD diagnosis, nor do I intend to because I don't see the benefit in it. Does that mean I have it or not? Who knows :) Let's go with 'no', since that's what the paperwork shows. But I get it, perhaps more than you're used to experiencing.
You write really verbosely. Are you like this in real life as well?
No, I'm worse.
Your pictures and Q&A are making me parasocially fall for you
Awww shucks. Come meet me in real life and let's get rid of the parasocial bit.











