What's fashion's next ethnic model obsession?

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  • Опубликовано: 12 янв 2025

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  • @NyachanGach-x1e
    @NyachanGach-x1e 5 месяцев назад +75

    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! 🤩

    • @tula1433
      @tula1433 5 месяцев назад +1

      Chanel Ayan I believe is Sudanese.

  • @aria2aria2
    @aria2aria2 5 месяцев назад +112

    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.

    • @Justaflower575
      @Justaflower575 5 месяцев назад +8

      This is a very interesting take

    • @astonemmm
      @astonemmm  5 месяцев назад +14

      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.

    • @tula1433
      @tula1433 5 месяцев назад +1

      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.

  • @sxt4447
    @sxt4447 5 месяцев назад +95

    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!

    • @astonemmm
      @astonemmm  5 месяцев назад +18

      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.

    • @carrington2949
      @carrington2949 5 месяцев назад +10

      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.

    • @sxt4447
      @sxt4447 5 месяцев назад +1

      @@carrington2949 Don’t forget Yasmeen too! It’s was so diverse and every girl had such a unique look. I want it to come back 😭

  • @Garyforshort
    @Garyforshort 5 месяцев назад +65

    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.

    • @astonemmm
      @astonemmm  5 месяцев назад +22

      They’re regressing, and the statistics on it are googleable. Sad.

    • @RosanaDavila
      @RosanaDavila 5 месяцев назад +11

      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”

  • @Belihoney
    @Belihoney 5 месяцев назад +44

    This is why it makes me cringe when I see black women online lament about black models at the moment being East African. Like the have no idea that this is how the industry runs and on top that Jamaican models had a moment too (that is closer to the African American look). It makes us look so … yeah not good.

    • @astonemmm
      @astonemmm  5 месяцев назад +18

      I’m rooting for everybody Black. 🤎 You’re right though-this industry moves funny. I PEEP. 👀

  • @LoniLoni11
    @LoniLoni11 5 месяцев назад +74

    Adut Akech is only 24?!?!? Oh my god! When did she actually start Modelling? 16?! I’ve definitely know her name since at least 2017.

    • @uschilou
      @uschilou 5 месяцев назад +24

      Isn't that wild? So many of the big 2000s models started so young, like 14/15. I remember years later thinking they looked amazing for their age then learning they were only like 24 although they'd been working for what seemed like ages.

    • @astonemmm
      @astonemmm  5 месяцев назад +32

      EARLY. They start them young. I have my thoughts about that as well, however- 😭

  • @lavedadavis818
    @lavedadavis818 5 месяцев назад +46

    I wish you had a chance to have met and chatted with Andre Talley. He would have enjoyed your fashion brain and enthusiasm for beautiful black models. You two in the same room, that would have been epic!!!! Carry on, sir. Carry on!!!

    • @astonemmm
      @astonemmm  5 месяцев назад +10

      🥹 This is so sweet. ALT is one of those people I wish I would’ve met as well. Especially insight as a young Black man finding my place in fashion, as he did so gracefully.

    • @sxt4447
      @sxt4447 5 месяцев назад +8

      @@astonemmm He was friends with my mom and she is mentioned in his memoir ❤ He would’ve loved these videos

  • @Sweetthang9
    @Sweetthang9 5 месяцев назад +24

    Thank you for including Bruna Tenorio......HOW she was not MASSIVE outside of my little teenage fashion obsessed brain is beyond my comprehension.

    • @astonemmm
      @astonemmm  5 месяцев назад +4

      I LOVE HER FACE. Big brown eyes. 😍

    • @Sweetthang9
      @Sweetthang9 5 месяцев назад +4

      @@astonemmm Her nonchalant strut in that pink mini, at Versace S/S'08.....I'm truly sick of the term "rent-free"....but.....applies

  • @Model_Roe
    @Model_Roe 5 месяцев назад +42

    This is a great video! Honestly it seems like fashion has pretty much ravaged every so called "exotic" and "ethnic" look from all corners of the earth to the point where nothing is really exotic anymore lol the Eastern European fad is something to be studied more in depth because to me that was the beginning of one of the most racist periods in fashion and this was back in the 00s Gemma Ward was like the Model evevrybody and their mama was dying to put on their cover and although she was not from Eastern Europe she was the face of that pale frail blonde blue eyed delicate doll look that was so popular in that time to the point where Black Supermodels like Iman and Naomi Campbell and Bethann Hardison had to come out and publicly drag and condemn the fashion industry to filth of their lack of inclusion or visibility of non white Models times have changed since then but it seems like fashion bigwigs are trying to wash their hands clean at that time blaming Prada when it obvious they were all complicity in the racism of that time because plenty of non white Models spoke about their experiences in the 00s and how it was almost impossible to get work because of how anti black and brown the industry was back then

    • @astonemmm
      @astonemmm  5 месяцев назад +8

      Yeah, the 00s WERE A TIMEEEEE.

    • @Model_Roe
      @Model_Roe 5 месяцев назад

      @@astonemmm bruh 😂 it was like Jim Crow all over again sad talk about no coloreds allowed and to this day the fashion industry has not repented for that time because they know they were wrong

    • @uschilou
      @uschilou 5 месяцев назад +7

      Ugh, yes! And what was the absolute obsession they had with Karlie Kloss? Alek Wek was everything to me as a kid just because she had so much presence.

    • @Model_Roe
      @Model_Roe 5 месяцев назад +5

      @@uschilou To this day I never got the appeal of Karlie Kloss much less making her a Victoria Secret Angel which made absolutely no sense to me I mean she seems like a nice person but outside of being a skinny tall white girl she was nothing special face wise very mid and I agree with you I love Alek Wek she was and remains my queen but when we talk about racism in the fashion industry thats a perfect example where you can have very mid looking white women make it to the top and a Black Model or a non white Model has to be extraordinarily beautiful eg Anok Yai Imaam Hammam Adut Akech to get the same type of attention and praise

  • @anissaali680
    @anissaali680 5 месяцев назад +9

    You talking about the sudanese models made me think of the career of Mona tougaard, she is unique

    • @astonemmm
      @astonemmm  5 месяцев назад

      I covered her on this channel! 🥰

  • @darlingkome
    @darlingkome 5 месяцев назад +33

    And just like that… YOURE BACK😍
    The south Sudanese wave is DEFINITELY a thing rn, i wonder what the next one will be…

    • @DearBill
      @DearBill 5 месяцев назад +5

      Indian , Nepali , Sri Lankan , Bangladeshi for sure.
      I don’t wish Middle Easterner / Maghrebi will be the next trendy ethnicity.

    • @astonemmm
      @astonemmm  5 месяцев назад +9

      BACKK! 🥰 and so do I-they need to increase the breadth though… a wave has to include allllll the girls and boys, not what they find “palatable” or in atm.

    • @inesf9508
      @inesf9508 5 месяцев назад +1

      @@DearBill your obsession with us is so funny we really live rent free in your head lmao seethe and cope 🤍

    • @The1fromBK
      @The1fromBK 5 месяцев назад +4

      Alec Wek predated the current "South Sudanese" wave, when she was everywhere in the late 90s. Surprised she wasn't mentioned.

    • @darlingkome
      @darlingkome 5 месяцев назад +2

      @@The1fromBK she was DEFINITELY that girl, she actually was mentioned in the vid, the text just appeared very quickly

  • @kus4ng
    @kus4ng 5 месяцев назад +6

    Randomly got recommended this and I can’t stop my eyes from being glued to the screen

    • @astonemmm
      @astonemmm  5 месяцев назад

      😭🤎🤎🤎 I’m grateful affff!

  • @darlingeffects
    @darlingeffects Месяц назад

    amazingly informative and high quality content, you are so underrated 👏

  • @bruh-uo7yk
    @bruh-uo7yk 5 месяцев назад +2

    this just came up my recommended. im blown away by your video!!!!!!

    • @astonemmm
      @astonemmm  5 месяцев назад

      AYEEEE! 😍😍😍😍 I’m glad it entertained! Thanks for watching! 🤎

  • @leela8641
    @leela8641 5 месяцев назад +8

    thumbnail is GORGEOUS

    • @astonemmm
      @astonemmm  5 месяцев назад

      THANK YOUUUU! 🥰 I love graphic stuff.

  • @guyafrica7894
    @guyafrica7894 5 месяцев назад +7

    I'm new subscriber and I'm so living your commentary and criticism too. Love it!

    • @astonemmm
      @astonemmm  5 месяцев назад +1

      Thanks for joining the squad. 🤎 Enjoy yourself, put your feet up! There’s cold seltzer in the fridge and Doritos in the cabinet! 😭🤎

  • @chaeffected2711
    @chaeffected2711 5 месяцев назад +4

    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 😭

    • @astonemmm
      @astonemmm  5 месяцев назад +1

      😭😭😭 I take any compliments on my speech as an honor. (I always hated my voice)

  • @goddessnadiya
    @goddessnadiya 5 месяцев назад +9

    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.

    • @astonemmm
      @astonemmm  5 месяцев назад +4

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  • @genevaxo
    @genevaxo 5 месяцев назад +10

    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".

    • @astonemmm
      @astonemmm  5 месяцев назад +8

      😭😭😭😭 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.

  • @prestonchaunsumlit6055
    @prestonchaunsumlit6055 5 месяцев назад +111

    Yes. The Prada effect was moreso on the casting direcror Daniel Peddle with Sasha P. But on a wider economic scope: the Eastern Bloc also offered an unlimited cheaper workforce. You touched on it towards the end: there were mini ethnic trends like the Korean and Chinese waves...but those countries are richer, and after a few notable East Asian models international successs: they make more money domestically, devoid of a Western lens...one could say there was a mini South Asian wave too...and with that....many of the new South Sudanese new faces end up back at the refugee camps after 1 season. The Western lens of exoticism also has to do with economic incentives on how we (westeners) see race, forced onto a global market. This centralisation will change, is changing, whether that will bring in more diverse body types remains to be seen, a lot of the world outside the West with spending power likes thin. China for example is doing "heroin chic after rehab": think Tom Ford Gucci...insanely thin but "fresh".

    • @Model_Roe
      @Model_Roe 5 месяцев назад +6

      @@prestonchaunsumlit6055 on average Eastern European East Asian and South Sudanese women are thinner that's just facts genetically you take a average South Sudanese or even Russian girl and they physically are naturally built to become a Supermodel I do think that's a lot to do with it plus as you said because a lot of these girls are coming from poverty so they are hungrier than the average western girl and are willing to work harder for probably lower rates all that combined plus as you said the struggle stories which fashion loves contributed to these so called "exotic" waves

    • @prestonchaunsumlit6055
      @prestonchaunsumlit6055 5 месяцев назад +8

      @@Model_Roe and when it comes to body positivity...its a very Western (ahem white Western) idea of white "feminism". These South Sudanese girls are even THINNER than the Slavic white women...and no one is complaining. It is interesting how geopolitics and economic sanctions and even ideas of "race" and identity is reflected in Fashion Models. I agree, the poverty aspect, literally a workforce that is hungrier* makes a great model, but also vulnerable to exploitation and disposabilty. No wonder the Chinese and Indian ones , though thin as hell, are all over 30, are educated and working domestically in their countries making more money because of a larger respective markets. It is echoing BRICS.

    • @Model_Roe
      @Model_Roe 5 месяцев назад +9

      @@prestonchaunsumlit6055 fashion loves struggle stories and they love girls from developing countries that come with that narrative perfect examples of this are Adut Akech Anok Yai and from the 00s era Natalia Vodianova idk what it is if a poverty struggle story makes it seem that much more luxurious but those are the girls they tend to love and celebrate I think this is why fashion does not really like nepo babies even though they get a lot of work because of their large social media followings they directly contradict this narrative of a poor refugee girl from South Sudan or from communist Russia its a weird kind of perverted way to look at beauty tbh

  • @bruhvibes5941
    @bruhvibes5941 5 месяцев назад +12

    There was a mini dominican wave 😂

    • @astonemmm
      @astonemmm  5 месяцев назад +6

      There’s was! Rose Cordero n’em. 😭

  • @uschilou
    @uschilou 5 месяцев назад +5

    Ahhhhh yes, love seeing you pop up!

    • @astonemmm
      @astonemmm  5 месяцев назад +1

      *pops* 😭🥰 Hey! Def gonna see yall more.

  • @donavanpowell2576
    @donavanpowell2576 5 месяцев назад +4

    Love this. Thanks Aston

    • @astonemmm
      @astonemmm  5 месяцев назад

      Thank you always! 😍

  • @africanTHEfire
    @africanTHEfire 5 месяцев назад +4

    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

    • @astonemmm
      @astonemmm  5 месяцев назад

      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. 😍

  • @xynerash
    @xynerash 5 месяцев назад +2

    i was waiting for a new video from you, i love your videos so much

    • @astonemmm
      @astonemmm  5 месяцев назад

      😨🥰🥰🥰🥰 These comments. Thank you!

  • @glopes956
    @glopes956 5 месяцев назад +3

    Love your production

    • @astonemmm
      @astonemmm  5 месяцев назад

      Thank you! I’m just happy it came out how I imagined it! 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

  • @SoaringSpear
    @SoaringSpear 5 месяцев назад +2

    You slayed this

    • @astonemmm
      @astonemmm  5 месяцев назад +1

      Thanks always frennn. 🤎

  • @joe2k20
    @joe2k20 5 месяцев назад +43

    what the fuck where have you been lol i miss you

    • @astonemmm
      @astonemmm  5 месяцев назад +10

      HEYYY! 🥹 (this made me tear up thx)
      I been building my social media presence! It’s hard to juggle all three. BUT I’M BACK UP IN HERE.🤎

    • @joe2k20
      @joe2k20 5 месяцев назад +5

      Lmao no problem I'm just glad you're back 😘 🤗

    • @francescaestelle2886
      @francescaestelle2886 5 месяцев назад +2

      YOU FINALLY POSTED!!! THANK YOU 🙏🏾🙏🏾

  • @lotusblossom444
    @lotusblossom444 5 месяцев назад +1

    bby i love you and your content. keep it up. 💗💗💗

    • @astonemmm
      @astonemmm  5 месяцев назад

      🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰 WILL DO. Thank you, so much.

  • @africanTHEfire
    @africanTHEfire 5 месяцев назад +1

    Whyyyy have I only just discovered your channel

  • @BreakMyPlate
    @BreakMyPlate 5 месяцев назад +1

    Interesting, but wished you had talked about the ending topic a bit more. Would have loved to hear more of your opinions about that.

    • @astonemmm
      @astonemmm  5 месяцев назад +2

      Oh we WILL discuss diversity on this channel in the near future lol. (I want to devote a video solely to it.) 🤎

  • @FNFNFN99KKK
    @FNFNFN99KKK 5 месяцев назад +9

    They wanna sell them to rich men.

    • @astonemmm
      @astonemmm  5 месяцев назад +11

      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.

  • @Thestylemonk
    @Thestylemonk 5 месяцев назад +2

    so great

    • @astonemmm
      @astonemmm  5 месяцев назад

      🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹 Thank you. Enjoyed making this one!

  • @nuriwerd
    @nuriwerd 5 месяцев назад +3

    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.

    • @astonemmm
      @astonemmm  5 месяцев назад +2

      YESS! The amount of undiscovered beauty on this globe if fashion only opened its eyessss!

  • @ib_doings
    @ib_doings 5 месяцев назад +1

    I love you, but we need longer content , plsssssssss 🎈❤️.
    And oh , Natasha is a WALKER MY GOD !

    • @astonemmm
      @astonemmm  5 месяцев назад +1

      😭😭😭😭 Heard.

    • @ib_doings
      @ib_doings 5 месяцев назад

      @@astonemmm ❤️❤️❤️

  • @bzztthundaa
    @bzztthundaa 5 месяцев назад +1

  • @newbengraham4775
    @newbengraham4775 5 месяцев назад +1

    you forgot about the men.

    • @astonemmm
      @astonemmm  5 месяцев назад +4

      I want to venture more into male models on my platform but idek if people care for male models like that! 😭😭😭😭

  • @DearBill
    @DearBill 5 месяцев назад +12

    I wish Desi will be included in fashion industry very soon.
    Sri Lankan , Bangladeshi, Indian , Burmese and Nepali have a real beauty.
    Their brown skin is fashionable and bright , contrary to Maghrebi and Persian , MENA have specific features cannot fit for Haute Couture and fashion shows.

    • @espeon871
      @espeon871 5 месяцев назад +12

      Theres a lot of beautiful MENA models since the start, desi girls are gorgeous esp as a burmese person i love the brown girls getting their flowers but MENA girls have been there like all the other girls. Yasmeen Ghauri is an icon.

    • @DearBill
      @DearBill 5 месяцев назад +1

      @@espeon871 Yasmeen Ghauri is from Pakistan but her father is born in Hyderabad , before 1947 Partition.
      Even if Yasmeen is internationally recognized, i don’t like her beauty.

    • @astonemmm
      @astonemmm  5 месяцев назад +5

      I’d love to see more Desi girls as well! A fan of Radhika Nair. 😍😍😍😍🥰

    • @inesf9508
      @inesf9508 5 месяцев назад +13

      you really couldn't compliment one group without bringing down another huh ... anyway there's a lot of MENA models and they all look different and beautiful, meanwhile Desis all look the same

    • @DearBill
      @DearBill 5 месяцев назад

      @@inesf9508 sorry Ines.
      Arab (Persian Turkish Maghrebi too) are definitely classless, tacky with super cheap manners and fat hips.
      You just cannot improve yourself.