Shaun Ross is the first albino male model which the fashion industry seems to have recently welcomed. Would Shaun have been recognised 10 years ago? This new look brings something new for the fashion industry that would have been rejected or ignored before. Now they are praising this look although it albinos would have been discriminated against. It would seem the fashion industry has become more understanding and open-minded embracing androgynous and albino models.
Ross to her show along with his fellow albinistic African-American model Diandra Forrest. During this very show, Ross was officially announced as “the first male albino (professional) model in the world”. Both models shared their dreams and aspirations regarding the model industry.
Being relatively new to the model industry, Ross has already started ambitiously pursuing acting career. He played a role in a short film by Yoann Lemoine which won a first-place prize in a contest sponsored by Italian Vogue. Ross also has worked with other directors, such as Julien Seri, Jason Last, and Ella Manor in both film and television. The model suprised his fans and admirers with his apperance in Katy Perry’s video “E.T.”
4. Thando Hopa.
[“I now realize that I have a platform to inspire young girls, and as someone who never had a role model who looked like me when I was growing up, I now hope to be able to show that albinism can be beautiful and is just another kind of normal,” says Hopa.] We think they are Beautiful, simply beautiful!
3. Diandra Forrest.
Her name is Diandra Forrest – one of few models with albinism, the hereditary condition in which the skin, hair and eyes produce little or no melanin, resulting in a lack of pigmentation.
And it turns out she also just appeared in a photo shoot for TheOnes2Watch. She shared the lens with model Betty Adewole.
The two wear fashions from the designers at MACHINE-A, a boutique and showroom in London’s Soho. Also featured in in Kanye West’s new video for his latest single “Power,”
When Diandra Forrest, who grew up in the Bronx, New York, was a child and began public school, she was teased and harassed so much that her parents put her into a special school. She also has a brother who is Albino.
Well, those who teased her must feel pretty silly right about now because that child that they ridiculed for being “different” grew up to be a beautiful young woman, who is primed to become a force in the fashion world and the modeling world, make unimaginable amounts of money, travel the globe and live a lavish, pampered lifestyle that most of us can only imagine. She was discovered by a modeling agent while walking down a street.
This is one of those success stories of accomplishment, inner strength, irony and defying the odds that makes a person smile and it reminds us that anything wonderful can happen to anybody.
2. Connie Chiu.
Connie Chiu (born 1969) was the world’s first albinistic fashion model.
Chiu was born in British Hong Kong to a Chinese family. Like many people with albinism, she has to protect her photosensitive eyes and skin from the sunlight. As a result, her family moved to Sweden when she was seven.
Connie Chiu was first introduced to modeling when her sister asked her to become a model at one of her final shows. At age 25, Chiu began modeling for fashion photographers such as Terry Richardson, Paul Burley, Heidi Niemala and Morten Smidt. Chiu later studied journalism.
Chiu starred in the music video for the single “Stalker” by Recoil, the solo project of Depeche Mode member Alan Wilder.
1. Stephen Thompson.
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