Victoria's Secret Androgynous Model Challenges Beauty Standards
Famed Androgynous female model, 26-year-old Rain Dove, recently made a powerful statement while posing for the Victoria's Secret's Christmas lingerie catalogue, promoting a change in the beauty standards of the fashion industry.
In the hopes of becoming an agent of change for people to see women in different shapes and sizes as beautiful in their own way, Dove posed in several Victoria's Secret lingerie and even superimposing some of the brand's models to indicate that beauty is subjective.
"You don't see Victoria's Secret women running around with even short hair. That's too crazy for them," Dove previously told the Daily Mail. "I want to tell people that there are more ways to be beautiful, there are more ways to be handsome."
Dove, who has bushy eyebrows and some masculine facial features, considers herself a beautiful person and a worthy model for any fashion brand since she also has the height of a six-foot-two-inch woman, a slim 26-inch waist and 32DD breasts, Daily Mail reports.
Her recently released photos showed Dove wearing Victoria's Secret's lingerie and posing exactly like the models featured in the brand's famed Christmas catalogue. Dove even placed the heads of models like Candice Swanepoel and Sara Sampaio just to prove her point that women shouldn't be looked at as not beautiful if they don't have the faces of the Victoria's Secret models.
"Every year I see VS promote their show as featuring the 'most beautiful women in the world.' During my career path I've experienced first-hand what people deem as beautiful. It's not me. It's not most people. It's limited and small. It needs to change," she said.
The campaign comes just before Victoria's Secret launches their famous Christmas catalogue runway show, featuring, of course, their Angels or their models. The show will be happening tonight, Dec. 8, per the Huffington Post.
Victoria's Secret has yet to comment on Dove's statements and her photos that have been circulating online. Meanwhile, Dove urges that "the face of beauty literally needs to change." She adds, "Which means the way we think of beauty needs to as well. That starts with us. Individually. Not hiding ourselves and standing up to say 'I exist. That alone is beautiful,'" Dove told the Daily Mail Online.
Dove has already modeled for W, Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Elle and Marie Claire.
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