{"id":287390,"date":"2017-11-17T19:22:49","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T11:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mariefranceasia.com\/south-asian-models-to-watch-287390.html"},"modified":"2017-11-22T12:24:01","modified_gmt":"2017-11-22T04:24:01","slug":"south-asian-models-to-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mariefranceasia.com\/th\/fashion-th\/asia-style-th\/south-asian-models-to-watch-287390.html","title":{"rendered":"Meet the 8 stunning South Asian models to look out for in 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fashion is certainly making slow, but heartening, progress in its embrace of diversity<\/a> - we\u2019re definitely smelling the winds of change. <\/p>

However, as much as we have been making progress in expanding our definitions of beauty, and pushing for more diversity in representation within the media, South Asian models (i.e. referring to those with origins in South Asia, which include countries like India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka<\/a> and Nepal, to name a few) have still somewhat been eclipsed through all the change.<\/p>

While a cursory search on \u201cAsian models\u201d will bring up the likes of East Asian beauties like\u00a0Liu Wen<\/a>, who have been making waves in the fashion spheres by appearing on covers of major titles and booking commercially successful stints like the VS Fashion Show, not as much is known about their duskier-toned, South Asian counterpart.<\/p>

https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BRS_9jcjLSs\/?taken-by=neelamkg<\/p>

Things are hopefully changing, however. British-born Neelam Gill<\/strong>\u00a0is making waves as the first model of Indian descent to book the highly-coveted Burberry campaign and appear in British Vogue. She is also one of the few women of South Asian heritage to be a L'oreal ambassador<\/a>, following in the footsteps of Aishwarya Rai and Frieda Pinto. Unlike previous commercially successful Indian models like Lakshmi Menon, who did not necessarily look like the classic 'Indian girl' in her words, Neelam is every bit identifiably South Asian - something Christopher Bailey, chief creative at Burberry specifically wanted for his campaign.<\/p>

As such, in celebration of beauty in its various shades<\/a>, sizes, faiths and more, it couldn\u2019t be more timely to shine a light on South Asian models making their marks in the fashion world.\u00a0Browse the 8 South Asian models we\u2019re absolutely girl crushin\u2019 on in the gallery above<\/strong>!<\/p>

Sarah Khan <\/em><\/p>

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