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Cecilio Asunción, the founding director of Slay Model Management - the world’s first trans-exclusive model agency, is at the forefront of this change. Asunción launched the agency in 2016, shortly after the release of his reality TV show Strut, an insight into the fashion industry through the lens of trans models, with Whoopi Goldberg as an executive producer. “Starting out doing something that nobody else has done before has its challenges but when you’re passionate about it, it’s worth it,” Asunción tells Vogue Scandinavia.
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Cecilio Asuncion, the director of “What’s the T,” a documentary that explored the lives of five transgender women, opened Slay Model Management in Los Angeles last year. Along with walking for New York Fashion Week and Los Angeles Fashion Week, his models have also modeled for Airbnb, Spiegel, even a Brazilian vodka company.
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While Asuncion says there’s still a lot of work to be done, he is optimistic that models from the trans community will have a brighter future as things continue to change and evolve for the better, particularly with the rise of more unconventional modelling agencies like his own.
