Model Envy: Barbara Ferreira

While many idolize the models we see on the runway and at the Met Gala, like Kendall Jenner, Gigi Hadid, Karlie Kloss, Taylor Marie Hill, Jourdan Dunn, the list keeps going, I'm all for finding the ones that are not shown in the spotlight. Maybe new model Barbara Ferreira has not found her spotlight in the fashion world yet, but she sure has found it on the internet.
With today's social media obsessed society (including me), many of the greats are found through the internet. All of those American Apparel models (whom I dearly love) have unique profiles online (like Joanna Kuchta (twitter: @pixiejoanna)), and Barbara is (well at least was) one of them. But she's different than the rest. She brings this daring presence through her countless selfies through Twitter (@boredbarbara) and Instagram (@barbienox) and her huge amount of body positivity that comes along with her beautiful curves that need to be more widely represented in fashion and modeling. The fashion world may not necessarily love her style, but Wilhelmina Models in New York did when they hired her a few months ago. Along with her infamous pout and bold brows, she brings so much more to the seemingly shallow modeling world. Her unique personality and audacious mentality can make her anyone's (including mine!) role model, but that's not all of it. She also has impeccable style, in the mom jeans and Adidas Stan Smiths type of way, which I'm all for. And on top of all of this, she was featured in Nylon Magazine's May issue, which is my favorite magazine, and Petra Collins, my favorite photographer, took a few shots of her for her series about feminism and body positivity. Barbara is the perfect person at least in my world, but she's becoming many "cool teens'" favorites as well. Instead of praising Kendall and Gigi (who have made so many racist comments and gestures to even count), I would start praising the underdogs that are making their way to the top, like Barbara. See her full portfolio here!

by Petra Collins

her infamous Instagram selfies