SHEILA (she/they)
Sheila is completing a bachelor’s degree in international relations and international law. A fervent and s*x-positive intersectional feminist (queer, POC), she promotes and educates her circle about body diversity and gender equality in her career and on her online platforms. Of Cambodian descent, Sheila wishes to contribute to diversifying the standards of the fashion industry by bringing her own personal touch as a queer, fat, tattooed and pierced Asian woman.
Which detail of your practice is most important to you?
Inclusion and representation are details that are dear to me in my academic, professional and modeling practice. Feeling under-represented myself in the media and publicity, the lack of diversity enormously affected me and pushed me to aspire to white, thin and feminine eurocentric ideals of beauty and performance. By contributing to the diversification of the fashion industry, I hope to allow young people to recognize themselves in the images that are offered to them and relieve them of a eurocentric social pressure.
Photos by and for Kelly Jacob for Urbania, BelleSa, Omy, From Rachel, La Pimbêche