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I was fortunate enough to walk for Giles Deacon this season. But why was I the only
transgender model to walk at all this season at London Fashion Week?
The first transgender contestant to feature on Britain’s Next Top Model, Talulah Eve,
wrote an open letter About Transphobia and Tokenism in Fashion.
Several trans models did walk at New York Fashion Week, however Talulah calls on
the fashion industry to make changes supporting diversity so that it will become the
norm and not the exception.
“The answer to change isn’t tokenism: casting one model from a marginalized group,
or doing a one-off show that highlights a marginalized group. It’s by regularly
championing diversity, by making it the norm”.
There’s so much power that lies in the hands of fashion designers. Use your power to
enforce change, to embrace the beauty of
diversity. We’re forever seeing advertisements
for “fresh faces” in modeling, but what’s
really fresh about casting the same body
type, gender, ethnicity, race, age, and size
we always see on the runway?
Let’s create a fresh normality,
a fresher vision.
54 / ABSOLUT MAGAZINE