{"id":3147,"date":"2015-10-09T08:26:56","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T12:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/?p=3147"},"modified":"2015-10-09T08:26:56","modified_gmt":"2015-10-09T12:26:56","slug":"shattered-standards-changed-catwalk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/?p=3147","title":{"rendered":"Shattered Standards, Changed Catwalk"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kira Littlejohn ’16
\nEE\u00a0<\/em>Staff Writer<\/p>\n

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Photo courtesy of Usmagazine.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Have you seen the drastic changes in the model industry? People with disabilities are beginning to hit the runway in a revolutionary new movement. Madeline Stuart, an Australian model with down syndrome, is one of many. \u00a0She like many others are changing the world with every strut. According to an excerpt from Madeline Stuart Model, her mother informs us that she has strutted the catwalk in New York in support of autoimmune awareness and has also become the face of Glossigirl, making her the first model with disabilities to ever do this. Miss Stuart has also been nominated for the Pride of Australia Award as well as the Young Australian of the Year Award. Her mother is sure that this is helping to end discrimination against people with disabilities everywhere. Madeline herself also wants to break people\u2019s discriminations against people with disabilities and alter people\u2019s perceptions of beauty according to News.<\/span><\/p>\n

After hearing about Madeline Stuart, Alexei Thompson, senior at Trumbull High School says, \u201cI feel great about that because it\u2019s time to look at every single person and make them feel like they\u2019re beautiful even if they\u2019re disabled.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

However, Madeline Stuart \u00a0isn\u2019t the only one redefining our views on what a model should look like. As stated in Daily Mail, several models boldly advanced down the runway in wheelchairs along with the world\u2019s first male amputee model, Jack Eyers, and the first model with down syndrome to strut the New York Fashion Week\u2019s runway, Jamie Brewers. The show worked in conjunction with Fondazione Vertical which supports research to find cures for spinal injuries.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jack Eyers was ecstatic to be there. According to Cosmopolitan, he said in an interview, \u201c\u2018To be the first male amputee model on a New York Fashion Week runway feels amazing. It feels like such a big deal. I just want to show that having a disability doesn\u2019t need to hold you back.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Jack Eyers couldn\u2019t be righter. From marvelous Madeline Stuart to the breathtaking models and wondrous amputees, we see that a disability cannot hold people back. It\u2019s more about the heart than anything else. Society is shown that beauty doesn\u2019t have to be confined to a certain standard or perception. <\/span><\/p>\n

Upon hearing about models with disabilities, Miss Deborah Hamilton of Children\u2019s Learning and Therapy Center, a center that assists people with disabilities, adamantly said, \u201c\u2018Why not? Why not? People are people and if you\u2019re able or capable, do it. Isn\u2019t that the Nike slogan? Just do it?\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Isn\u2019t that the sentiment everyone should have? From America to Egypt to Japan, isn\u2019t it agreeable that \u201cpeople are people\u201d? It\u2019s lovely to know that as our standards constantly fluctuate, our definition of beauty continues to \u00a0broaden.<\/span><\/p>\n

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