BY YARINA YAO
When tech meets the fashion world, fashion designers, fashion medias or fashion marketers are no longer belong only to just fashion. Now even supermodels are tech related, too. Can you imagine a beautiful model with hot body that actually knows coding? What if those angels start to enter the nerd world? Let's find out which model has already took the first step.
1. Coco Rocha
1. Coco Rocha
At this year’s South by Southwest, Coco Rocha was introduced by the executive creative director and co-founder of Refinery29, Piera Gelardi, as the world’s first digital supermodel. Coco started the trend to post food and pajama looks on Instagram.She also created an app book called “Study of Pose”. It shows the entire pose in 360 degrees. “Why aren’t we watching the tech awards just as we are watching the Oscars? Why can’t Elon Musk be as cool as Alexander Wang, or Bill Gates as cool as Karl Lagerfeld?” Coco Rocha said at the event. Google brand marketing manager Kate Parker and fashion technologist Madison Maxey also joined the panel.
2. Karlie Kloss
2. Karlie Kloss
Karlie Kloss is well-known for her Victoria’s Secret performance with Taylor Swift or the cool photo shoots for Vogue magazine. She also created a scholarship project for girls who want to code. Not posing and winking at cameras, but coding. Kloss’s official statement reads: “I think it's crucial that young women learn to code as early as possible to ensure that we have a voice and a stake in what the world looks like." Let’s do our best to turn the next generation of tech from bro-culture to gender-equal.
3. Kendal Jenner
3. Kendal Jenner
Recently Vogue sent Kendal Jenner and other super models to Silicon Valley to meet the moguls at the tech companies including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Snapchat. Kendall Jenner has over 50 million followers on Instagram and this number grows every day. Kendall's makeup artist, Victor Henao, who works with her on Estée Lauder campaigns and gets her ready for events, told us that checking social media is one of Kendall's favorite thing to do when she's getting made up. So this tech shoot was a great experience for her. Meanwhile, a game app called Kendall and Kylie has been downloaded 42 million times after launching in 2014. Kendall Jenner is definitely involved in fashion and tech, and enjoying both so much.
4. Miranda Kerr
4. Miranda Kerr
One of the most famous Victoria’s Secret Angels, Miranda Kerr, officially posted on Instagram photos from her trip to Washington,D.C.with her billionaire boyfriend. The lucky boy’s name is Evan Spiegel. Don’t worry if you didn’t hear his name. Do you use Snapchat every day? Yes! He is the co-founder of Snapchat! Kerr and Spiegel met at a work-related Louis Vuitton dinner party in New York in 2014 and began dating in June of 2015. Recently, Snapchat totally updated the font from a typical computer look to a fashion magazine look. Is it possible that Evan asked Miranda for recommendations?
5. Lyndsey Scott
5. Lyndsey Scott
Lyndsey is famous for being one of the hot models at the sexy Victoria Secret shows. But people barely know that she is also an app developer with a degree in Computer Science, because she is not geek look at all. Who could imagine the beautiful and hot girl has a professional profile on Stack Overflow( a Q&A social media for programmers), Check her coding resources here: http://www.lyndseyscott.com/coding-resources/
Now you know, even a working fashion model, working for walking on the runway or posing for photo shoots, could be involved into tech world, too. Design must has more potential to develop technology techniques. How will #techfashion go in the future? We will see.
Now you know, even a working fashion model, working for walking on the runway or posing for photo shoots, could be involved into tech world, too. Design must has more potential to develop technology techniques. How will #techfashion go in the future? We will see.