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February 10, 2017

Hands Down, This Show Had the Best Casting at Fashion Week

By Véronique Hyland

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Photo: Courtesy of Chromat

Chromat consistently has some of the best models of New York Fashion Week. The innovative brand, designed by Becca McCharen-Tran, always features models with a wide range of backgrounds, body types, and gender identities.

McCharen sees no reason why designers can’t dress a range of bodies on the runway. “It’s a matter of whether you choose to use your pattern-making resources for non-straight-size [models],” she told the Cut in 2015. As her fall 2017 show concludes, we decided to showcase this season’s cast and learn a little bit about each model.

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Name: Carmen Carrera Where are you from? New Jersey What makes you different? The fact that I am trans and I don't trip on it. It's my strength. Pho... Name: Carmen Carrera Where are you from? New Jersey What makes you different? The fact that I am trans and I don't trip on it. It's my strength. Photo: Courtesy of Chromat
Name: Victoria Gomez Age: 22 Where are you from? Jamaica, Queens, NY What makes you different? My booming personality and my huge hair (it's full o... Name: Victoria Gomez Age: 22 Where are you from? Jamaica, Queens, NY What makes you different? My booming personality and my huge hair (it's full of secrets). Photo: Courtesy of Chromat
Name: Tina Johnson Age: 23 Where are you from? South Sudan via New Zealand What makes you different? My gap teeth. Photo: Courtesy of Chromat
Name: Sabina Karlsson Age: 28 Where are you from? Sweden What makes you different? My freckles and auburn hair! Photo: Courtesy of Chromat
Name: Denise Bidot Age: 30 Where are you from? Miami, Florida What makes you different? What makes me different is my desire to help others and lov... Name: Denise Bidot Age: 30 Where are you from? Miami, Florida What makes you different? What makes me different is my desire to help others and love of seeing them succeed. In this generation, it is important for us to spread kindness and support each other. I'm confident that if we love ourselves and others, the world would be a better place. Oh, and I'm pretty unapologetic about my curves :). Photo: Courtesy of Chromat
Name: Maya Mones Age: 22 Where are you from? Everywhere & nowhere What makes you different? I'm learning to love all that makes me different, w... Name: Maya Mones Age: 22 Where are you from? Everywhere & nowhere What makes you different? I'm learning to love all that makes me different, which really is everything about me, there is only one you. I think my mere existance makes me different. I try to think more about what makes us the same. Photo: Courtesy of Chromat
Name: Zu Age: 21 Where are you from? China What makes you different? Personality, sense of humor. Photo: Courtesy of Chromat
Name: Leyna Bloom Age: 23 Where are you from? Born on the south side of Chicago / raised as a military brat. What makes you different? What makes m... Name: Leyna Bloom Age: 23 Where are you from? Born on the south side of Chicago / raised as a military brat. What makes you different? What makes me different is I can put a smile on anyone's face regardless how different they are from me. People just naturally love me like they met me before, even if they haven't. Photo: Courtesy of Chromat
Name: Iskra Lawrence Age: 26 Where are you from? England What makes you different? Embracing the fact that I'm imperfectly perfect and that is what... Name: Iskra Lawrence Age: 26 Where are you from? England What makes you different? Embracing the fact that I'm imperfectly perfect and that is what makes me beautiful and different. Photo: Courtesy of Chromat
Name: Safara (right) Age: 27 years young Where are you from? Trinidad & Tobago What makes you different? In my opinion, what makes me different... Name: Safara (right) Age: 27 years young Where are you from? Trinidad & Tobago What makes you different? In my opinion, what makes me different is my subconscious stance to never give in to cultural appropriation. Yes, I am black (afro-Caribbean to be exact), but my interests are not in tune with the generalization of what my skin color is depicted to be in the collective, rigorously upheld in most societies, obliged mind-set of ignorance. To me, to admire and embrace another culture in the form of the progressiveness in equality, but to condemn them as being culturally inappropriate is a schism, which represses the movement of equality. Photo: Courtesy of Chromat
Ben Ritter, Cleopatra. Photo: Courtesy of Chromat
Juliana Huxtable. Photo: Courtesy of Chromat
L'Ka. Photo: Courtesy of Chromat
Victoria Gomez. Photo: Courtesy of Chromat
Carmen Carrera. Photo: Courtesy of Chromat
Juliana Vagner, Cleopatra. Photo: Courtesy of Chromat
Aurel O, Maya Mones. Photo: Courtesy of Chromat
Jahmal. Photo: Courtesy of Chromat
Tobi and Tolu Aremu with Jaylynn Jackson and casting director Gilleon Smith photo-bombing. Photo: Courtesy of Chromat
Philomena Kwao. Photo: Courtesy of Chromat
Tobi taking a photo of Carmen Carrera. Photo: Courtesy of Chromat
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