Alternative Model
Alternative modelling is a branch of the modelling industry that features models who do not conform to mainstream ideals of beauty. Alternative models are often niche-specific, with a personal style that represents subcultures like goth, burlesque, latex and fetishism. An alternative model may for example be tattooed, pierced, or have distinctively subcultural hair (shaved, dyed a distinctively unnatural colour, mohawk, or in dreadlocks).
Alternative modeling can be clothed or unclothed.
Alternative modeling was given substantial mainstream media coverage in the last decade, partly through the creation and popularisation of community-based alternative modeling sites, like GodsGirls, SuicideGirls and BlueBlood. Alternative modeling community sites promoted their models for their personality as well as for their looks and portfolio.
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Famous quotes containing the words alternative and/or model:
“No alternative to the
one-man path.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
“The striking point about our model family is not simply the compete-compete, consume-consume style of life it urges us to follow.... The striking point, in the face of all the propaganda, is how few Americans actually live this way.”
—Louise Kapp Howe (b. 1934)