Jamaica Puts a Different Face on the Runways

Here’s an interesting article from the New York Times on how Jamaicans are changing the face of the modeling runway.

“His machete blade a blur, Tevin Steele whacks the top off a fresh green coconut. Deftly knifing a window through the tender pith, he inserts a straw and hands the fruit across the counter at Dinga-Fling, his roadside stall outside this drowsy coastal town. Selling coconuts is his livelihood, and Mr. Steele, 21, says it is a good one, though neither as promising, lucrative or downright implausible as his other.

It was just over a year ago that Mr. Steele was scouted at his stall by a modeling agent, who detected in his whippet frame and chiseled cheeks the same potential that soon led him to sign an exclusive contract to walk in a fall 2017 runway show for Saint Laurent.

Roughly 5,000 miles, and a universe, lie between Port Antonio and Paris”.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/29/fashion/fashion-models-jamaica-.html