Entry #4 Sometimes the Best Models are the Strangest

No matter who you are, when someone says the word "beautiful", a certain face comes to your mind. Maybe it's your partner, a friend, a girl you saw across campus, a model, or a generic stereotype. Yet how often do we challenge that word? What does it mean to be beautiful? According to Google

The first google image for "beautiful woman"

Images, a beautiful woman is thin, has a narrow, small nose, thick, plump lips, a slim face, angled eyebrows, big eyes, long eyelashes, pale irises, long hair and a body with lots of curves. Many won't argue with this generic beautiful woman, but a new trend has started among woman along with a wave of new age feminists. Many argue that all women are beautiful and finally the stereotype for beauty is changing. We're seeing plus sized woman, woman of color, all sorts of woman being put as beautiful. Our world is changing, but so is fashion. Today, I'd like to talk about a few strange, yet equally beautiful models you may not have heard of. Why? Because our world is strange, and we represent our world through our clothes.

To start off with our galleria of strange models, I'd like to introduce you to Kyary Pamyu Pamyu. Kyary Pamyu Pamyu (real name: Kiriko Takemura) is a model who began her debut in Japan 2010. Being Japanese, you can tell things are going to get weird. She began her career as a fashion designer

but debuted as a musician in 2011. Since she debuted, she has released full three albums, and is the most well known Japanese musician/fashion designer to date. What

leads to her popularity though? Is it her cuteness, her never seen designs, or just how freaking weird she is? For those who want a glimpse of her weirdness, below is her debut song. I warned you, the video is weird, doesn't make sense, and looks like it came out of a Hello Kitty fangirl's fever dream.

Strange as her debut video was, she actually is a talented artist and has made many successful songs. Her music videos are always fun and artsy looking with a few really weird ones. Her clothes are also beautiful and there's no doubt that the woman is a genius. The fashion she specializes in is known as "decora" and "kawaisa". I'm not exactly sure what that means, but I do know one thing, her clothes are amazing. Have a look for yourself.

Of course, where there's one strange model, there will be another one. Music fans, you may know of Die Antewoord, and you know of the beauty that is Yolandi Visser.

 Yolandi is a South African vocalist in a rap/rave group called Die Antewoord. If you want to get a sense of her fashion style, I would recommend watching the video before.
Warning: the video below is graphic and contains violence, nudity and fowl language.

Yolandi's style, unlike the last model, varies from grown up barbie doll, to a possessed being. Yolandi made her debut as a vocalist in her band, and since the band started, has become famous internationally along with her peers. She became so famous that she and her fellow band members starred in the 2015 movie, Chappie.

Yolandi's fashion is evident even in the movie and the bring colors she
brings give the movie life. Chappie is a dark film and is a constant emotional rollercoaster, without Yolandi, there would have been no help for Chappie. It was thanks to her self-named character that the movie brought a warm tone even during the saddest parts.

Creepy doll or the barbie no one wanted, Yolandi is a fashion inspiration with all her strangeness. But why is it that the strange is so fascinating? After all, it's always the new things that become the newest trends. 30 years ago, would a woman have dared worn a crop top? Now crop tops are the new skinny jeans. Fashion is brought about by someone being adventurous enough to be strange and different. We can't help  but be drawn to these people. The new always fascinates us, especially things we don't understand. Maybe that's what compelled me to write about this.