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A channel devoted to fashion and model aficionados-model documentaries, and the decadent, razor-sharp runway model collection, dubbed THE BLACK GLOSS, created by creative, Aston Em.
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BUSINESS EMAIL: astonemonline@gmail.com
(If you're reading this, and supported me and my content in any way, thank you. Thank you, and thank you, once again.)
BUSINESS EMAIL: astonemonline@gmail.com
What's fashion's next ethnic model obsession?
The Invasions: A Breakdown of the Brazilian, Eastern European and South Sudanese Model Waves
I'M BACK! This one was fun, cause it touches on all the iconic model moments tbh. The video explores three significant waves that shaped the fashion industry's approach to diversity:
BRAZILIAN MODELS: The rise of Brazilian fashion models in the 1990s, challenging traditional beauty standards.
EASTERN EUROPEAN MODELS: The influx of models from countries like Russia and Ukraine in the early 2000s.
SOUTH SUDANESE MODELS: The recent emergence of dark-skinned models from South Sudan, further expanding representation in fashion.
I also examine how each wave influenced the concept of beauty in modeling, impac...
I'M BACK! This one was fun, cause it touches on all the iconic model moments tbh. The video explores three significant waves that shaped the fashion industry's approach to diversity:
BRAZILIAN MODELS: The rise of Brazilian fashion models in the 1990s, challenging traditional beauty standards.
EASTERN EUROPEAN MODELS: The influx of models from countries like Russia and Ukraine in the early 2000s.
SOUTH SUDANESE MODELS: The recent emergence of dark-skinned models from South Sudan, further expanding representation in fashion.
I also examine how each wave influenced the concept of beauty in modeling, impac...
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How Fashion Failed A Top Model.
Просмотров 4,5 тыс.8 месяцев назад
Explore the extraordinary life of the late Daul Kim, a trailblazing South Korean model who left an indelible mark on the fashion industry. Daul Kim, known for her captivating beauty, unique style, and fearless attitude, rose to prominence in the mid-2000s and quickly became a prominent figure in the world of fashion. In this video, we delve into the highs and lows of her career, offering a retr...
Yves Saint Laurent: A Catalyst For Diversity.
Просмотров 1,2 тыс.11 месяцев назад
Yves Saint Laurent, the legendary French fashion designer, left an indelible mark on the fashion industry with his innovative designs and visionary approach. While he revolutionized fashion in numerous ways, his contributions to diversity and inclusion, particularly in relation to Black models, were relatively limited during his time. Names like Rebecca Ayoko, Sonia Cole, Katoucha Niane, Dalma ...
The Rise And Rise Of Mona Tougaard.
Просмотров 12 тыс.11 месяцев назад
The Rise of Supermodel, Mona Tougaard In the captivating world of fashion and modeling, few names have shone as brightly as Mona Tougaard. With her ethereal beauty, striking presence, and a trailblazing spirit, Mona has redefined the standards of contemporary modeling. Hailing from Denmark, this rising star has taken the fashion industry by storm, captivating audiences and leaving an indelible ...
The Runway Evolution Of Anok Yai.
Просмотров 8 тыс.Год назад
The Runway Queen, Anok Yai: Hailing from a humble background, Anok Yai's remarkable story began in 1998 in Cairo, Egypt. However, her family later migrated to the United States when she was just two years old, settling in Manchester, New Hampshire. With dreams and aspirations in her heart, Anok's unique heritage and striking features set her apart from the conventional modeling world. Her deep ...
12 MINUTES OF (SEMI) ROASTING THE 2023 BET AWARD LOOKS.
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12 MINUTES OF (SEMI) ROASTING THE 2023 BET AWARD LOOKS.
THE SUPERMODEL PRADA TOOK A DECADE TO BOOK.
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THE SUPERMODEL PRADA TOOK A DECADE TO BOOK.
THE MODEL ON THE COVER OF VOGUE BEFORE HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION.
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THE MODEL ON THE COVER OF VOGUE BEFORE HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION.
THE SUPERMODEL TOM FORD PLUCKED FROM CHICAGO.
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THE SUPERMODEL TOM FORD PLUCKED FROM CHICAGO.
THE SUPERMODEL THAT REWROTE FASHION'S DEFINITON OF "BEAUTIFUL".
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THE SUPERMODEL THAT REWROTE FASHION'S DEFINITON OF "BEAUTIFUL".
THE SUPERMODEL KARL LAGERFELD HANDPICKED AS HIS "BRIDE".
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THE SUPERMODEL KARL LAGERFELD HANDPICKED AS HIS "BRIDE".
THE SUPERMODEL RESPONSIBLE FOR QUENCHING PRADA'S 20-YEAR THIRST.
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THE SUPERMODEL RESPONSIBLE FOR QUENCHING PRADA'S 20-YEAR THIRST.
Why Did It Take 300 Contestants and 24 Seasons To Realize This?
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Why Did It Take 300 Contestants and 24 Seasons To Realize This?
THE NEW RUNWAY MODELS OF COLOR: WHO’S #1?
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THE NEW RUNWAY MODELS OF COLOR: WHO’S #1?
THE NEW TOP BLACK MODELS: ‘22/‘23 RUNWAY COLLECTION
Просмотров 12 тыс.Год назад
THE NEW TOP BLACK MODELS: ‘22/‘23 RUNWAY COLLECTION
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Duckie Thot???????????????????????????????????????
Do you have a video about the "petite" models?
I remember her, still sad even after all these years.
One of my fave models ever. RIP Daul, you would've loved Instagram and probably would have been HUGE on TikTok
I say this all the time! The amount of content she probably woulda been featured in today. 🥺
this just came up my recommended. im blown away by your video!!!!!!
AYEEEE! 😍😍😍😍 I’m glad it entertained! Thanks for watching! 🤎
As East European - we had in 90s a huge problem with kidnaping, forced work, forced p***titution, girls were recruited with promises of becoming next natasha vodanova, got scamed of their money, practically enslaved if not worst. Natasha herself was making like 300$ per month and was sending home money and was left with practically nothing. The way how western gaze see us as cheap girls, i read an article from 95 about how good are russian models from a scout what was researching girls in romania! we are different ethnic, language group and victims of russification and colonial agression to find out that westerners assign us our colonialist identity
Russians want nothing to do with Romania you dont cross our mind ever
There’s a lot of exploitation related to the modeling industry, and it breaks my heart. Many are sold a dream, then live a nightmare.
Fashion should look into South East Asian models next.... there's a large talent pool to be discovered with SEA girls because of diverse looks, like East Asian (China Doll kind of beauty), to ethnically ambiguous beauty (dusky skinned, tanned look, like Austronesian/Polynesian or even can pass as Native American) to sultry South Asian (India, Pakistan) type of beauty. SEA historically has been a large trading hub between South Asia and East Asia and there are so many beauties to be discovered in places like Indonesia, Malaysia and The Philippines where the are a lot of intermixing between the native Austronesians with South & East Asians and Europeans due to its' colonial history....plus SEA is also a rising economy with more than 600 millions people with strong purchasing power with middle and upper middle level income with the exception of Singapore and Brunei which are in the high income level.
YESS! The amount of undiscovered beauty on this globe if fashion only opened its eyessss!
Interesting, but wished you had talked about the ending topic a bit more. Would have loved to hear more of your opinions about that.
Oh we WILL discuss diversity on this channel in the near future lol. (I want to devote a video solely to it.) 🤎
Randomly got recommended this and I can’t stop my eyes from being glued to the screen
😭🤎🤎🤎 I’m grateful affff!
Gisele isn't even curvy, so i don't understand how she brought curves. And when i say curves, i mean "body shape" instead of "body size".
😭😭😭😭 And you’re absolutely right. This is the industry’s standards, and they’re ridiculous-she’s nothing close to a curve model. And tbh, fashion still isn’t ready for body inclusivity conversations; they’re consistently regressive.
you forgot about the men.
I want to venture more into male models on my platform but idek if people care for male models like that! 😭😭😭😭
Giselle is a colonial European anchor baby AT BEST… a mess
You talking about the sudanese models made me think of the career of Mona tougaard, she is unique
I covered her on this channel! 🥰
My absolute Gem .my first love. The Rose of the UK
Always will be! 😍
Maty Fall Dibaaaaaaa my Queeeen
I miss Senait Gidey and Ajak Deng
Im.so happy i discovered this channel
🥹 I’m grateful to have you here! Enjoy your stay!
LOL you're a whole weirdo cos Gisel is literally a white European German aryan nation type bihh...she's only nationally Brazillian NOT ethnically Brazilian...meaning whatever "CURVY TAN OLIVE SKIN TONED" aesthetic was just that an aesthetic that was carefully constructed by bts fashion industry professionals. I know this cos I used to work in the scene.
there’s no such thing as “ethnically Brazilian” since anyone can be Brazilian, it’s a new world melting pot country. It’s like saying someone is ethnically American or ethnically Canadian. Those arent ethnicities and neither is Brazilian
I love the South Sudanese domination but im also ready for other black African models who do not have this aesthetic and are not Horn of Africa either to have a time to shine.
Imaan Haamam pleaseeee next
Sometimes she really resembles Jourdan Dunn
Please do a write up of Yasmin Wijnaldum nextttt Shes so mysterious to meeee
Abeny Nial . Rejoice Chuol. Ahweng Chuol with her blazing red sclera and scarred face is my girllll. Priscilla Adit. Maaty Fall Diba isnt Sudanese but she definitely fits and benefits from the aesthetic. Yes it is a fetishism of a certain ethnic group beause they are very dark with cherubic features and that is a stronger conversation to have. I think the next wave is India; ie Avanti Nagrath- Ashley Radjame etc etc , ths will coincide with their rise in mainstream media like Simone Ashley etc
I was gonna mention the rise of Indian girlies in media-I remember one of my professors saying “fashion influences life, life influences fashion” as in the trend cycle… I would say you’re right. 😍
Whyyyy have I only just discovered your channel
Wow, even though she was a signed model to one of the top agencies in the world, she had to fly herself to Milan that’s so unprofessional
The modeling industry has its faults, that’s for sure. 🥴🥴🥴
I think she has the best set of twins on the runway.
HE'S GORG !.
TELL ME ABOUT ITTT. 😮💨
Hi, I’m Nuer a tribe in South Sudan. I will say we are beautiful group of people ❤☺️! When you see a women from my tribe (Nuer) their names tend to start with (Nya) meaning ‘girl’ the following part is the description your parents give you. For example Nyagoa broken down is “Good girl.” (Nya)=girl goa=good. Adut and Anokia are from another tribe in South Sudan (Dinka) I believe. I wouldn’t be able to elaborate their names. I’m truly excited to see the talent that comes from my country, we sitting pretty! 🤩
Chanel Ayan I believe is Sudanese.
I really enjoyed this from you. It was so entertaining.
I gotta do more commentary stuff on here! Lol, I do say a lot more on social media though. 😭
When you put notes on screen, can you please leave them up for more than a flash of a second because there is no way I’m gonna be able to read it that fast and it’s annoying to have to try and pause and go back. The reason I’m watching this is because, I wanna know what you’re saying and I’m enjoying how you’re saying it and how you’re presenting yourself. Good luck with your channel.
I GOT YOU BBY. ✍🏿✍🏿✍🏿
They wanna sell them to rich men.
This isn’t uncommon, which is sad. Gemma Ward stated many models who don’t make it out of the testing phase, and end up in debt, are pushed into prostitution.
I love you thank you so much for your videos
Thank YOU. Thanks for watching. 🤎🤎🤎
i love how you talk it’s so intriguing like how wendy williams used to talk lol idk how to explain it but i’m subscribing bc of it 😭
😭😭😭 I take any compliments on my speech as an honor. (I always hated my voice)
There was a mini dominican wave 😂
There’s was! Rose Cordero n’em. 😭
Thank you for including Bruna Tenorio......HOW she was not MASSIVE outside of my little teenage fashion obsessed brain is beyond my comprehension.
I LOVE HER FACE. Big brown eyes. 😍
@@astonemmm Her nonchalant strut in that pink mini, at Versace S/S'08.....I'm truly sick of the term "rent-free"....but.....applies
thumbnail is GORGEOUS
THANK YOUUUU! 🥰 I love graphic stuff.
please do a video on leomie anderson!
I’ve done a bio of her on my Instagram! 🥰
I currently feel the industry going back to "size 0". my theory is that this is happening due to so many celebrities and people in the public eye in general losing weight lately(ozempic??). which reflects on the modelling industry. there was definitely a lot less diversity in terms of body types this past season.
They’re regressing, and the statistics on it are googleable. Sad.
Also that is a result from economic recession where food becomes a privilege so they need to romanticize the whole situation by making skinny “that thing again”
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Love your production
Thank you! I’m just happy it came out how I imagined it! 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
You slayed this
Thanks always frennn. 🤎
This video will change so many lives!!! Your willingness to be vulnerable AF about something that eventually visits most people, was so bad ass. I send you love, support and encouragement.
Thank you! 🥹 Being mentally unwell is hard to articulate sometimes, because it’s a jumble of feelings, but I tried. 🤎🤎🤎
I find it interesting how casting agents fetishize our Blasian sisters. Maybe it’s a Kimora and Naomi thing where they’re always looking for the next generation of girls who look like them but it’s such a specific thing to try and emulate. We rarely ever see African American girls get cast these days unless they are incredibly ambiguous and have a certain hair texture/color (I see Black girls with red hair and freckles on the rise). It’s like you either have to be a mixed Black girl or purely African and there’s no space for those in between anymore, like Tyra, Beverly, or Bethann. I would like to see more diversity within the Black model pool!
There’s so much in the Black community that gets pushed aside once the ignorant find something that fits their idea of what “Black” looks like.
It is a shame because the 90s black supermodels were such a diverse looking crew. You had looks such as Tyra, Tamiko (Maybelime, etc), Beverly Peele, Veronica Web, Karen Alexander, etc. in Jamaica you had Georgina Robertson. In Europe you had Alex Wek, Oluche, Naomi, Chrystal( mixed with like a 4 b/c fro, Katoucha , etc. Now it’s like the boutique hotel effect but with one ethnic group of an entire race. The powers that be don’t do that to their own race and there is actually far less ethnic variety amongst them.
I’m so glad you made a video on this subject. I’ve noticed South Sudanese features are currently in trend, but I never had the vocabulary to describe it. Many of them have similar circumstances of refugee status or childhood poverty. Like Adut Akech and Anok Yai. Beautiful women, and also the current standard by which all other black female models seems to be set. I feel it partially has to to with the exoticization of black women promoted as seductive and alluring.
This is a very interesting take
My thoughts align with yours. 🤎 I think there’s so many facets to it, and they include the points you made here. It also ties into how some leaders in fashion think of Blackness as “tribal”. Models have spoken about it as well.
We should definitely not be looking up to all these rapping women who have BBLs and fake bodies. They set the trends and then somehow men get the blame for beauty standards, when it’s actually females competing to be the “baddest” that keeps these toxic standards alive. Time for some uncomfortable conversations and accountability.