Nodels: 8 honest instagrams of non-standard models
Text: Tanya Reshetnik
Over the past decade, the fashion industry become much more humane. At the key shows and in the shooting more often flashed non-standard models. Entire agencies are engaged in the search for Nodels - people of all different ages, shapes, and skin color. For those who are interested to follow the diversity of beauty in all its manifestations, we offer 8 accounts of boys and girls of appearance, which is often far from the ghostly standards.
Esmeralda Sea-Reynolds
Esmeralda is a man of many talents: in addition to a modeling career, she paints, writes scripts and openly declares her life position (for example, she participates in the "Women's March" after the inauguration of Donald Trump). Over the past two years, Cee-Reynolds has managed to work on four fashion weeks and walk along the runway at Gucci, Carven, Chanel, Louis Vuitton and Saint Laurent shows and many others. Designers love her for the very "alien" appearance, and the girl herself does not hesitate to take selfies in ridiculous hats and record short videos with her cat.
Sierra Skye
Skye began her modeling career less than two years ago, but has already collaborated with a dozen agencies around the world. Thin features, long blond hair and very fair skin - the image typical of Renaissance painting is in demand today from Marc Jacobs to Bottega Veneta. Sierra regularly appears on the pages of Self Service, W Magazine and Dazed, and in her free time admires the nature of California and writes poetry.
Tatyana Neklyudova
Tatyana works with the Russian agency Oldushka, whose average age of resident models is sixty years. Neklyudova is sixty-one years old, she lives in St. Petersburg, is being removed for Russian clothing brands, and used to work as a senior engineer for the GiproRybflot. The turning point for Tatiana's career was the underwear photography for the Petrushka brand. In instagram model collected footage from the shooting and sketches of life: a lot of native St. Petersburg, flowers and photographs from exhibitions.
Vsevolod Cherepanov
Vsevolod, he is the North, the most sought-after model of the Russian agency Lumpen. He cooperates with a variety of brands, including Lanvin, Comme des Garçons, Junya Wutanabe and Gosha Rubchinskiy. At twenty, Cherepanov managed to visit the pages of Vogue Italia, 032c, Numéro Russia, launch his own clothing brand, sign a contract with Nike and get into the list of the hundred most fashionable people according to Dazed (45th place). In the instagram of the North a lot of shots from trips, photos of his girls and friends and, of course, selfies.
Natalie Westling
Westling hails from the small town of Scottsdale, Arizona, where she was first noticed by scouts from a local modeling agency. Soon, the girl signed a contract with the New York-based agency The Society Management, and over the past two years, she managed to check out the shows at all four weeks and participate in the shows of the level of Prada and Christian Dior. Big eyes, sharp cheekbones and a shock of red hair Natalie is loved not only by designers of expensive brands, but also by stylists from Japanese Vogue, Dazed, i-D and AnOther Magazine.
Natalie’s instagram has one hundred and seventeen thousand subscribers, with whom the girl shares her shots from filming, learning skate tricks and new tattoos (of the latter are the inscriptions "Skate" and "Vans of the Wall").
Scarlett Costello
This summer, Costello, a nineteen-year-old, managed to blow up Internet publications like The Huffington Post, Teen Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Independent and Metro vigorously wrote about a young model that goes against the standards imposed by society and refused epilation. In March, Scarlett was on the cover of Interview Magazine, the makeup artists in the spirit of Frida Kahlo, the make-up artists of the magazine emphasized with bright face-art and additional drawing. In the instagram Costello there are no shots from the shooting, but there are a lot of fantasy makeup ideas and photos with friends and family.
Diane Veras
Veras works directly with two model agencies: Jag Models, which specializes in the search for non-standard faces and figures, and the British Milk Models. Diana is an excellent example of a modern model: the girl does not hide cellulite, refuses to retouch, and in instagram she shares with the subscribers a story of her non-ideal skin. Among the professional merit of the model are the Chloë Sevigny x Opening Ceremony show, shooting for the Aerie and Everlane brands, Harper's Bazaar cover, reversals in Teen Vogue. In her instagram she loves to show children photos, backstage from the set and unusual makeup.
Jezra M
Jezra was born and raised in Brooklyn, and owes her unique appearance to parents from the island country of St. Vincent and the Grenadines. The girl considers her mission to inspire as many people around the world as possible to love herself, and she says that no dream can be too big or small so as not to try to realize it.
The model collaborates with plus-size brands and brands that have an extended size range, be it Forever 21 or Deb Shops and Ashley Stewart. She has appeared on Refinery29, Bustle, Curve Magazine and Essence Magazine more than once. Jezra's Instagram - the continuation of her educational activities: here the girl tells how important it is to respect yourself, and shares the frames from the new shootings.