“I've been thinking about the idea of utopia,” Paloma Elsesser says. “Not what it looks like, but what it feels like.” The model and designer is Zooming with me from her apartment in Manhattan's Chinatown, her warmth radiating through the computer screen, and she's envisioning what could come out of fashion's reckoning with its legacy of bias and racism.
Paloma Elsesser will introduce herself to you as a plus-size model. "That's my profession—how I support myself—but I don't want that to always be part of my description. My story is different," she tells us in her (seriously cute) New York City apartment. It's true: She's the exact opposite of a stereotypical model.
On paper, the idea of fashion insiders hitting up the local pumpkin patch seems utterly absurd, but on a chilly weekend in October, Paloma Elsesser and her friends find themselves amid an expanse of Dutchess County farmland nestled deep in the Hudson Valley of upstate New York, the stuff of grade school field trips and pastoral postcards. The birthday celebrations for Elsesser’s friend Camille Okhio, a Nigerian American writer and fine- and decorative-arts historian, are in full swing.
Paloma Elsesser is the third of Vogue's four January 2021 cover stars. The curve model posed in gorgeous gowns for the cover story, which was shot by famed ...
It's easy to lose yourself in the fashion industry if you don't have a sense of who you are. But Paloma Elsesser knows who she is.
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