Winnie Harlow

Winnie Harlow

Harlow in 2015
Born Chantelle Brown-Young
(1994-07-27) July 27, 1994
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Nationality Canadian
Other names Chantelle Winnie
Ethnicity Jamaican[1]
Occupation Model
Website www.chantellewinnie.com

Modeling information

Height 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Hair color Black
Manager d'management group[2]

Winnie Harlow (born Chantelle Brown-Young; July 27, 1994) is a Canadian fashion model, spokesperson and activist. Harlow was a former contestant on the twenty-first cycle of the US reality television series America's Next Top Model. She is the current brand ambassador for the Barcelona-based casual clothing brand Desigual, along with Brazilian supermodel Adriana Lima. Harlow is known for her prominent form of the skin condition vitiligo, using her career as a platform to spread messages of body positivity as well as raising awareness about vitiligo and equality.

Early life

Harlow was born on July 27, 1994, in Toronto, Ontario, to Lisa Brown and Windsor Young.[1] She is of Jamaican ancestry, and has two sisters.[3] She was diagnosed with the chronic skin condition vitiligo, characterized by portions of the skin losing their pigment, at the age of four. Harlow was a victim of verbal abuse by other children and was reportedly called a "cow, zebra and all manner of other disparaging slurs" throughout her childhood.[1] The verbal harassment led to her numerous changing of schools and finally dropping out of high school, after which she contemplated suicide.[1][4] However, Harlow reports that she has since accepted her appearance and ignores the negative opinions of others.[1]

Career

Modeling

Harlow's first success as a model came in 2013 when YouTube personality Shannon Boodram saw her pictures on Facebook and asked to shoot Harlow for her YouTube music video "Natural Me".[4]

In 2014, Harlow participated in the twenty-first cycle of America's Next Top Model, where she was revealed to have been discovered by the reality television show's creator and host Tyra Banks whilst she was on Instagram.[5] Harlow was originally eliminated from the cycle on the fourth episode.[6] However, the cycle allowed eliminated contestants to continue to participate in photo shoots and gain public votes so that the eliminated contestant with the highest public vote average would be allowed to return and continue competing. She and fellow eliminated contestant Ben Schreen returned on the ninth episode as the former contestants with the highest public vote average.[7] Of the two, Harlow was revealed on the tenth episode to have achieved the highest public vote average out of the eliminated participants.[7] She was permanently eliminated from the twenty-first cycle on the thirteenth episode, ultimately placing sixth.[7]

Following her permanent elimination from the series, Harlow modeled for the Spanish casual clothing brand Desigual and became their official brand representative;[8][9] she said in an interview with the New York Post, "Desigual stands for being unusual and unique and atypical, so they figured I'd be the perfect person for that. They had a new line that had a lot of dots. And some of my skin patterns are dots. In the campaign video, there’s a part where the dot on a scarf lines up perfectly with a dot I have on my waist, and I thought that was the coolest thing ever."[10]

Later that year, Harlow walked and closed for the clothing brand Ashish's Spring/Summer of 2015 fashion show during London Fashion Week.[10] She modeled for fashion magazines such as i-D and Dazed.[11] And modeled for the fashion website SHOWStudio. Harlow also appeared in the music video "Guts Over Fear" by Eminem featuring Sia, from Eminem's compilation album SHADYXV, released on August 25, 2014.

In 2015, Harlow modeled for the Italian clothing brand Diesel for its Spring/Summer campaign.[12] The ads were shot by British fashion photographer Nick Knight and featured Harlow together with seven other models.[8] She modeled for two foreign editions of the women's magazine Glamour in a five-page spread[13][14] and was featured in the August/September issue of Complex magazine.[15] She was also featured in the August 2015 issue of Cosmopolitan.[16] She was featured on the website of Vogue Italia in an interview and accompanying photo shoot.[17] In August 2015, Harlow shot for the cover and an accompanying editorial spread in the September issue of Ebony magazine, where she appeared alongside several other models, including Diandra Forrest, Marquita Pring, Milan Dixon, Samantha Archibald and former America's Next Top Model contestant Fatima Siad.[18]

In 2016, Harlow was featured in a Sprite commercial.[19] Filmed in December 2015, Harlow also appeared in the new visual album Lemonade, by Beyonce, released on April 23, 2016.

As a spokesperson

In 2011, Harlow posted a YouTube video, "Vitiligo: A Skin Condition, not a Life Changer", where she shared her story and answered questions about what it’s like to have vitiligo.[8] In November 2014, Harlow was enlisted to deliver a TED Talk presentation recalling her experience with vitiligo and her perspective on fashion, image, and understanding beauty.[4] In 2015, Harlow spoke at the 'Dove Self-Esteem Project Panel' at the 2015 Women in the World Foundation Annual Summit. She also released a personal essay about bullying, abuse, and her vitiligo. She was presented with the 'Role Model' award at the Portuguese GQ Men of The Year Event.

Filmography

Television

Year Title Notes
2014 Access Hollywood Episode: "June 26, 2014"
America's Next Top Model Cycle 21; 6th of 14 (originally 13th)
2015 Prominent! Episode: "February 13, 2015"
Primetime: What Would You Do Episode: "Friday, June 12th"

Music videos

Song Year Artist Director Reference(s)
"The One" 2014 JMSN JMSN [20]
"Guts Over Fear" Eminem ft. Sia Syndrome [21]
Lemonade 2016 Beyonce Jonas Åkerlund, Beyoncé Knowles Carter
Kahlil Joseph, Melina Matsoukas, Dikayl Rimmasch
Mark Romanek, Todd Tourso		 [22]

Awards and nominations

Year Organisation Award Work Result
2015 Gala Spa Awards 2015 Beauty Idol Herself Won[23]
2015 Portuguese GQ Men of The Year Event. Role Model Herself Won[24]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Rodney, Dave (February 25, 2014). "From Suicide Thoughts to America's Next Top Model Finalist". jamaica-gleaner.com. Gleaner Company. Retrieved April 4, 2015.
  2. ↑ http://www.dmanagementgroup.com/scroll.asp?tipo=now&qualemod=387
  3. ↑ Barlow, Eve (2015-02-15). "Chantelle Winnie: ‘I’m proud of my skin’". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2016-04-23.
  4. 1 2 3 Barlow, Eve. "Chantelle Winnie: ‘I’m proud of my skin’". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 August 2015.
  5. ↑ Fleming, Kirsten (September 9, 2014). "Model with rare skin disease changing the face of fashion". nypost.com. New York Post. Retrieved April 4, 2015.
  6. ↑ Kwiatkowski, Elizabeth (September 9, 2014). "'America's Next Top Model' cuts Chantelle Brown-Young from the competition". RealityTVWorld.com. Reality TV World. Retrieved June 23, 2015.
  7. 1 2 3 Kwiatkowski, Elizabeth (October 29, 2014). "'America's Next Top Model' eliminates Mirjana Puhar, welcomes back Chantelle Brown-Young". RealityTVWorld.com. Reality TV World. Retrieved June 23, 2015.
  8. 1 2 3 "Winnie Harlow: Canadian Model With Rare Skin Condition Lands 2 Major Campaigns". Complex. Retrieved 11 August 2015.
  9. ↑ "Canadian Model With Skin Disorder Gets Another Sweet Gig". The Huffington Post. Retrieved 2015-08-11.
  10. 1 2 Theo (September 17, 2014). "Model Suffering from Vitiligo Scores Desigual Campaign". fashionmodelirectory.com. Fashion Model Directory. Retrieved April 4, 2015.
  11. ↑ Models (May 2014). "Winnie Harlow". models.com. Models. Retrieved June 23, 2015.
  12. ↑ Goedluck, Lakeisha (February 1, 2015). "Winnie Harlow stars in Diesel’s new campaign". dazeddigital.com. Dazed. Retrieved April 4, 2015.
  13. ↑ http://www.glamour.es/videos/moda/videos/chantelle-winnie-harlow-el-valor-de-ser-diferente/2679
  14. ↑ http://superselected.com/editorials-chantelle-winnie-glamour-italia-june-2015-images-by-giovanni-gastel/
  15. ↑ http://uk.complex.com/style/2015/08/winnie-harlow-interview-complex-august-september-2015?utm_campaign=styleig%2Bsocialflow%2B08%2B2015&utm_source=instagram&utm_medium=social
  16. ↑ http://www.cosmopolitan.com/style-beauty/fashion/a43312/winnie-chantelle-vitiligo-essay/
  17. ↑ http://www.vogue.it/en/vogue-black/the-black-blog/2015/07/chantelle-winnie#ad-image
  18. ↑ "Ebony Magazine September 2015 Pays Homage To Female Black Models". Donbleek.com. Ebony. 24 August 2015. Retrieved 29 August 2015.
  19. ↑ Chantelle Winnie: Sprite Obey Your Thirst™
  20. ↑ Spice TV (January 29, 2014). "VITILIGO MODEL CHANTELLE BROWN YOUNG STARS IN MUSIC VIDEO FOR JMSN". myspice.tv. Spice. Retrieved June 23, 2015.
  21. ↑ Leight, Elias (November 24, 2014). "Watch Eminem Get in the Ring for 'Guts Over Fear' Video". Billboard. Retrieved June 23, 2015.
  22. ↑ "How Winnie Harlow Went from America's Next Top Model to Beyoncé's "Lemonade"". April 26, 2016.
  23. ↑ "Stunning vitiligo model Winnie Harlow continues to change face of fashion with ‘Beauty Idol’ award". metro.co.uk. Metro. March 23, 2015. Retrieved June 23, 2015.
  24. ↑ "GQ Men of the Year 2015". metro.co.uk. Metro. October 19, 2015. Retrieved May 1, 2016.

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