Freida Pinto makes cover of The New York Times Style Magazine

The latest cover of T: The New York Times Style Magazine's Women's Fashion issue stars Indian actress Freida Pinto, currently the subcontinent's most famous face on the global fashion radar. Due to appear on U.S. stands this Sunday, the first look appeared on the magazine's Facebook page today.

Mumbai-born Pinto started out as an Elite fashion model and aspiring actress. Her first feature film, Danny Boyle's "Slumdog Millionaire" hit Oscar success in early 2009 and the next thing you know she's in a Woody Allen movie and front row at Chanel. Destiny? No. It's that her dusky neutral features allow her an Indo-global appeal that overtly Bollywood actresses cannot provide, at a time when the world is curious about India as an inspirational fashion, cultural and travel destination.

The only other girl who enjoys that kind of stature in the fashion world is Goa-based model Lakshmi Menon.

Despite the fact that "Bombay" is still Pinto's home base, with a 21-year-old boyfriend, Slumdog co-star Dev Patel, in the United Kingdom and four Hollywood movies to release between now and 2011, these days the only way we get to see this fine featured 25-year-old in the flesh, so to speak, is on the cover of fashion magazines.

This Sunday, next to a cover line that reads "wonder women," Mumbai's girl is a style role model on a mainstream New York fashion magazine.

"I've only been here one day and I already love it. It's Bombay but more organized. I would move to Manhattan in a minute!" she told Paper magazine in December 2008 just months before the Oscars that changed her life.

Freida Pinto's meteoric rise in print over the last year:

People, India, January 2009

Maxim, India, March 2009

Cosmopolitan, India, March 2009

Vogue, India, March 2009

Vanity Fair, United States, inside cover, March 2009

ELLE, India, February 2010

ELLE, Arab World's inaugural issue, April 2010

T Magazine, United States, August 2010