I'm often asked what I love most about models and why. For me it is their uniqueness and, how often, it's their imperfections that make them. Models are so heavily ridiculed for being too skinny or for being this or that. Abbey Lee Kershaw put it perfectly in an interview with Today Tonight, when asked what she thinks about the pressure at the top of the industry to be thin Kershaw responds, "that's like asking a body builder how they feel about the pressures to be incredibly muscley. An elite performer is always put under some sort of extreme pressure, that the rest of society can argue and might not quite understand".Often people don't understand the true purpose of a model; they think they are there to just be pretty and show off the dress. That is the case to an extent, however, model's are in fact blank canvases for a designer or client - to be moulded into whatever imaginative creation possible and to express a vision that can not always be put into words. It may not always be the true sense of the word "beauty".
Their candid moments and flaws are what I look up to, and their ability to portray a certain moment/idea/feeling/ really is inspiring.
As Coco Chanel once said "in order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different".
So love your flaws.
pictured above: Ashley Smith for RUSSH Magazine's November 2009 beauty spread.
- Ax
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