Models with atypical appearance, glittering in 2015
Text: Alyona Belaya
Last few For years, we have witnessed how the fashion industry, having finally succumbed to the pressure of the masses and common sense, fights against prejudices within its own system and questions the usual ideas about femininity and model appearance in general. So, Gigi Hadid has become the "Best Model of 2015" by the version of readers of Models.com. And this is not surprising, given the disputes around the figure of Hadid and its correspondence to the notorious model standards that have unfolded on the Internet recently. We collected eight inspiring examples of girls who this year successfully starred in glossy magazines, advertising campaigns and participated in Fashion Weeks, despite their appearance, which previously would not have made their stars of the catwalks.
Jackie O'Shaughnessy
63-year-old Jackie O'Shaughnessy has devoted her entire acting career and has played in more than one dozen American TV shows and movies. However, Jackie became famous all over the world only last year thanks to the American Apparel advertising campaign. The cooperation of the youth mass market-brand and Jackie O'Shaughnessy began in 2012, but last year’s shots were really “shot”, in which the gray-haired model posed in her underwear. She has become a worthy example of the fact that beauty has no and cannot have an expiration date. A year ago, the site StylelikeU.com launched a project called “What's Underneath,” in which various women talked about the prejudices and disapproval they face. Jackie O'Shaughnessy became one of his heroines: she shared stories about ageological statements in her address and told how she learned to accept and love herself the way it is.
Brunett Moffi
At one time, the cover of the twenty-eighth issue of the POP magazine made people pay attention to themselves: there was a photo of a girl with signs of strabism under the caption "The Face". It turned out that the heroine’s name is Brunett Muffy and she really has a squint. The beginning model appeared on the cover of the POP by chance: the girl of the photographer Tyler Lebon suggested that he remove his acquaintance for the magazine. As a result, the photos were so successful that it was decided to put one of them on the cover. The success of Brunet was unpredictable: almost immediately after the release of the magazine Storm Models agency, from under the wing of which Cindy Crawford, Kate Moss and Cara Delevin came out, offered the girl to sign a contract. In one of the interviews, Brunett admitted that she thought to do an eye surgery, but then decided that this would be a "betrayal of herself." Strabismus does not interfere with her work - under the auspices of Storm Models, Brunett successfully removed for progressive magazines like Clash and Pylot. In addition, in 2015, Brunett in a new look - with pink hair - could be seen in the shooting of the online edition of The Ones2Watch, telling about young and promising, and on the pages of Open Lab Magazine.
Hari nef
Thick brown hair, the correct structure of the face, androgynous features - Hari Nef looks like a typical modern model. With one exception - she was born with a male body. Hari made the first steps in her modeling career before completing a course of hormonal therapy. In 2014, she co-starred for several magazines, became the face on the cover of FRISCHE Magazine and was on the Dazed & Confused list of the 100 Most Influential People in the Fashion Industry. In February 2015, a young model with a look Patti Smith had already participated in New York Fashion Week, walked the runway at Adam Selman, VFILES and Eckhaus Latta, and one of the largest agencies IMG Models offered Hari a contract, making it her first American model. transgender. Nef did not stop at that - participation in the advertising campaign & Other Stories and the video of Selfridges department store, dedicated to the launch of Corner Agender, filming for Interview, Vogue.com and Numéro. Now, in addition to modeling, Hari Nef tries himself as an actress - she got the role in the acclaimed TV series "Transparent". Without a doubt, this is just the beginning.
Winnie harlow
In Chantel Brown-Young, better known as Winnie Harlow, has a perfect model appearance, with one exception. She suffers from birth vitiligo - a violation of skin pigmentation. Because of him, she was teased as a child, little has changed with age. According to legend, Winnie found on Instagram herself Tyra Banks, and then invited to her show "America's Next Top Model". Retiring from the competition a few weeks before the final, Vinnie, however, did not remain out of work - the Spanish brand Desigual offered her to become the face of a new advertising campaign. In the spring-summer 2015 season, Shantel first appeared on the podium at the London-based designer Ashish Gupta’s show, and a couple of months later she gave an inspiring speech on the TED platform. By her own example, she argued that an atypical appearance is not a sentence. Filming in the advertising campaign of Diesel and for magazines Dazed & Confused, Vogue Italia, Glamor and Cosmopolitan, participation in the video Eminem and Sia "Guts Over Fear", more than 1 million Instagram subscribers - Vinnie Harlow can be safely called the mouthpiece of a generation for whom conventional beauty is no longer a required component of success.
Ruth Bell
Ruth could have remained just one of the new models with angelic appearance from the portfolio of the London agency Elite, if it were not for the bold decision to cut one's hair to almost zero. Rather, the idea belongs to the photographer David Sims, and the performance to the hair stylist Paul Hanlon, but the girl admits that getting rid of the length of the waist-length hair was painless for her. In the new image, Ruth first appeared in the Alexander MсQueen Autumn-Winter - 2015 advertising campaign. The short haircut came at a time: the designers, as if by agreement, set a course for a new (read, unconventional) femininity, and Bell turned out to be one of the most popular models in recent weeks. fashion In Milan, the girl made her debut not just anywhere, but at the Gucci show (which today is the same as breaking the jackpot), Max Mara and Versace, and in Paris - with Lanvin and Saint Laurent, at the same time becoming the face of the brand's cruise collection. By the way, Ruth then donated her beautiful blond hair to the Princess Trust Charity foundation, which makes wigs for children undergoing chemotherapy. In general, it was worth it.
Molly bair
As haters, they just didn’t call her - an alien, a rat, and a gremlin. Every time Molly was genuinely surprised: "Hey, why are you, yes, I am normal." The unusual appearance turned out to be a 17-year-old Molly on hand - a scout from The Society Management model agency, which is part of the Elite network, saw a girl at one of the flea markets in New York and immediately offered to go to the casting. A week later, she walked along the runway at Proenza Schouler, and from the very first season in the professional portfolio Molly the loudest names settled: Prada, Dior, Chanel. Today, it is represented by four agencies at once: The Society Management, Elite London, Elite Milan and Elite Paris, - and there is no end of requests for filming. In just one year, Molly Bair managed to take part in dozens of shows (including the Chanel couture show, which she closed), to film for Numéro, Dazed & Confused, CR Fashion Book covers, to work with major industry figures like photographers Stephen Klein and Stephen Meisel and art director Fabien Baron, appear on the pages of W magazines, British and Italian Vogue, iD, Interview and AnOther and become the face of ad campaigns of Alexander Wang, Coach and Marc Jacobs. It is obvious that the status of a promising newcomer this year, the girl received not by chance.
Dinah Kristison
Twenty-five Diana Christie is a real fighter. Three years ago, she was diagnosed with a fourth stage of blood cancer, and the girl had to undergo chemotherapy and two major operations. However, the painful treatment and total loss of hair did not deprive her of a fighting spirit: “I decided not to wear a wig and not to wrap my head with a scarf, because I do not care what others think of me. I look like that and I’m not going to be ashamed of myself anyone's opinion. " Having achieved remission, Dinah actively pursued a modeling career and continued to shave her head in order to support all bald girls who have to face disapproving views and comments. One day a photographer friend asked Christians to pose for him for a portfolio - the pictures were scattered on the Internet, and Daina was showered with job offers. This summer, she signed a contract with the New York-based agency Major Models, after which she starred in an advertising campaign for Urban Outfitters and participated in six shows of New York Fashion Week.
Tess Holliday
In the modeling business, Tess Holliday (real name is Ryan Hoven) is not a newcomer. After several years of working as a fashion make-up artist and art director, in 2011 she decided to take part in the casting of "House of Dreams Model Search" by the Torrid model agency and received an offer of cooperation. Tess instantly became a model plus-size model of the 22nd American size, inspiring optimism to all the girls who are being persecuted for being overweight. She actively advocates a variety of beauty in the fashion industry, stating that it is not necessary to have the body of an "angel" Victoria's Secret to feel confident. Tess confirms her position not in word, but in deed: in 2013, she launched a campaign in her Instagram under the slogan #EffYourBeautyStandards and calls on girls of “un-fashioned” build not to be shy of her body. The efforts were not in vain - in the same year Tess appeared on the pages of the Italian Vogue among the six most influential plus-size models according to the magazine.
Unconditional popularity came to Tess in January 2015, when Milk Model Management offered her to join her branch Curves - this is how the girl became the largest model with which a well-known agency had ever signed a contract. A couple of months ago, Tess starred in the advertising campaign of the Conscious H & M line, and also appeared on the pages of the British Marie Clare. Well, if the most ferro-concrete gloss is ready to revise its ideas about the standards of female beauty, then the efforts of both Tess and other supporters of the body-positive are not in vain.
Photo: American Apparel, Storm Model Management, & Other Stories, D'Management Group, Yves Saint Laurent, Proenza Schouler, Urban Outfitters, Yours Clothing