Whether or not you watched the annual Victoria's Secret Fashion Show on Tuesday doesn't matter.
Chances are you're familiar with the brand — the veteran "Angels" like Adriana Lima and Alessandra Ambrosio, the newcomers like Kendall Jenner and Gigi Hadid and the look:
Chances are you're familiar with the brand — the veteran "Angels" like Adriana Lima and Alessandra Ambrosio, the newcomers like Kendall Jenner and Gigi Hadid and the look:
That luscious-haired, long-limbed and perky-boobed look is the epitome of traditional femininity.
It's a beauty standard that's all too narrow for most people
to fit, nor should they need to — which is the case one androgynous
model is making with some lingerie photos of her own.
Rain Dove, the 26-year-old androgynous model who is often mistaken for a
man or transgender woman because of her short hair and strong features,
wanted to prove this point by recreating Victoria's Secret ads as seen
in the brand's holiday catalogue
She then Photoshopped actual
Victoria's Secret models' faces onto her 6'2 frame and hourglass figure
(her measurements are 32DD-26-34) and did a side-by-side of her photos
and the edited versions to prove that beauty is, indeed, subjective.
"Different can be sexy, too," Dove said in a press statement. "Every
year I see Victoria's Secret promote their show as featuring the 'most
beautiful women in the world.’
"During my career path I've experienced firsthand what people deem as
beautiful. It's not me. It's not most people. It's limited and small. It
needs to change."
She went on, “The face of beauty literally needs to change. Which means the way we think of beauty needs to as well.”
