In the bustling Ville de Montreal, where the cosmopolitan vibe blends seamlessly with a rich cultural heritage, creatives are redefining the Canadian fashion landscape with their unique perspectives on diversity. Up Close and Personal,” offers a captivating glimpse into the perspectives of those who are shaping the industry with their bold and imaginative visions.
Kaylah Nunnuvero
1) What’s your favourite thing about fashion?
I love being able to express myself and let my creativity go with fashion. To be able to wear what I want not to please people but to feel good and confident in my skin.
2) How do you feel about diversity in the fashion industry and what you would like to see more of in the future ?
For me diversity is important to advance and normalize the fact that we do not all have the same morphology, size, appearance. It’s important to see diversity in the fashion world to be able to normalize it for everyone! I would like to see more small people modelling and walking the runway for the fashion giants. It’s not true that a 6ft model looks better in pictures than a 4ft11 or 5ft model.
Sheila Suos
1) What is your favourite thing about fashion?
My favorite thing about the fashion industry is it’s open-mindedness. As a creative person myself, it is really important for me to welcome different mindsets and backgrounds. Of Cambodian descent, I wish to contribute to diversifying the standards of the fashion industry by bringing my own personal touch as a queer, fat, tattooed and pierced Asian woman.
2) How do you feel about diversity in the fashion industry and what you would like to see more of in the future ?
Inclusion and representation are details that are dear to me in my academic, professional and modeling practice. Feeling under-represented myself in the media and publicity, the lack of diversity enormously affected me and pushed me to aspire to white, thin and feminine eurocentric ideals of beauty and performance. By contributing to the diversification of the fashion industry, I hope to allow young people to recognize themselves in the images that are offered to them and relieve them of a eurocentric social pressure. »
Tyrone Julatone
1) What is your favourite thing about fashion?
You can portray art in its physical form. As youth we express it through music, dancing, drawing, painting, sports. If you ain’t front-line get out the god damn way, real sh*t.
2) How do you feel about diversity in the fashion industry and what you would like to see more of in the future ?
There’s a lot of indigenous models these days whether they know it or not however indigenous is an identification that you can see thoroughly throughout the world. There’s indigenous communities in Africa, Asia, The Islands and even in Europe. If you watched Avatar 2, beauty isn’t just in the colonizer, it’s in curly hair, locs, braids you can see it all different races. This is the shift in diversity in the modelling industry.
Photographer and AD: Moïse Mbarga-Abega
MUA: Cloé Bourboujas @kloe_253
Photo Assistant: Félicité Mbarga-Abega
Tyrone Julatone @tyroneninjah @prettymenmanagement
Francis Corbeil @frankcorbeil @montagemodels
Kaylah Nunnuvero @kl506 @details.the.agency
Sheila Suos @sheivann @details.the.agency
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