![]() ![]() As I got older, I got to find that in myself.” There are times when I will reflect, and it’s not that someone put me in a bad situation, but I felt that I should have stood up for myself better. Even though I did start at 18, I still feel like I was too young. ![]() I used to want to work, and it looked so shiny and sparkly. I got to be a normal high schooler and play volleyball. The experiences that I got to have in high school, thank god! Instagram had just started and I was posting pictures of flowers with ugly filters. Spring break, my senior year, I came to New York for the first time just to see agencies and I always fought that, but when I look back on it, I would never change it for a second. “My mom came to New York at 16 came to send money home to her family, but as a mom, she chose to keep me in high school until I was 18. Though she initially wanted to start modeling earlier, Gigi Hadid is glad mom Yolanda wouldn’t let her hit the runway until she turned 18 A lot of people would be surprised to see the warmth and support that we all feel for each other.” the conversations that we get to have with each other that are really broadening fashion. The friendships that all of these models are building and the connections, not only emotional but intellectual. “I know I’m not like the runway queen, but the connections and the emotional things that I’ve had with these designers is what’s kept me around. Everyone who has given the commentary, saying, ‘I want to see myself,’ now fashion designers and big publications are actually listening.”įriendships and behind the scenes connections are going to change fashion, according to Gigi Hadid It’s impressive that because of the numbers on social media, fashion has actually begun to take in to consideration what everyone actually wants. ![]() Just this last fashion week, there was the highest number of black women and curvy women and the number of trans models was high, the number of hijab models. “Just being in the industry for so long, I have never seen diversity catch fire the way that it has now. That’s why tokenism is difficult, because it leaves people out.”Īshley Graham credits social media with changing the casting game There are all of these experiences and we’re supposed to be responsible for it. So it does feel powerful to be an agent in shifting that, but at the same time, there are girls who are bigger than me, girls who are darker than me, girls who don’t have thin faces. As women we all have traumas, and looking at things that we can identify with feels good. ![]() That’s why it’s important that we need other identities incorporated into this imagery to make everyone feel validated in a real way that can shape the narratives for people to come. Obviously we have a connection, but it's hard when we’re supposed to represent all of those identities in one. Ashley and I are in the same industry, but we represent very different women, different identities, different experiences. “We’re supposed to be the pillars of the actual norm in America. keeping things private that I want to keep private, and that I think are sacred personal.”įor Paloma Elsesser, overcoming tokenism is the first step towards true diversity in fashion Recently I feel like I’ve been working on opening myself a bit. I’ve strived for that almost my whole career, but I’ve realized recently that having so much privacy leaves room for people to create a narrative for you, and for people to assume something of you that could be completely untrue. I almost feel power in having that, and I think there’s something really beautiful to be said about that. For me, it’s always been a huge thing to keep that private aspect of my life. My family has a TV show and we’re all in this position. Finding the balance between private and public life was a game changer for Kendall Jenner ![]()
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