“It's about chanel
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in it as well. Being self-sufficient, for me was a really important ambition to
realise and it's about instilling that confidence and conviction in them. As a
model you are constantly being put on a pedestal whereby you are judged and
often appreciated for the way your features lie, and even if other people can't
see the benefit of getting to know the human being inside, it's good for these
young models to know that that confidence is a crucial part of building their
character, and a sense of who they are.”“Confidence” is a word she uses often.
She's overflowing with it now, but it took her a long time and a lot of work to
get here, she says.In the early stages of her career, it was suggested that she
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She had moments where she couldn't fit into designers' tiny sample sized
clothes. And a few years ago, she found herself at the eye of the size-zero
storm when a national newspaper ran a full-page image of her, criticising her
body.“I think I was frozen with shock,” she says. “As a model, part of my job is
to be critiqued physically. I can handle criticism but this article was
discussing whether or not I was capable of having children, guestimating my
weight and asking whether or not I regularly menstruated. I did get upset but
for the first time I saw it from the readers' perspective and I suddenly
realised that though this debate was quite painful to me, it was necessary.“Over
the last decade models have become this sort of commodity where it's easy to
disassociate the human being from within the clothing. As the debate raged on
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But it was the way in which it was handled, I couldn't believe the level of
aggression, but I had to accept that there was a lot of anger out there. People
felt quite persecuted by limitations that they felt the industry imposed upon
them. It was a big eye-opener for me. How I reacted to hearing criticism of my
body, I thought: ‘well hang on a minute, I'm a grown up here, what must a young
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encourage diversity on the catwalk, and acknowledges that the fashion industry's
portrayal of beauty has a very real impact on how millions of women around the
world feel about their appearance.“Fashion is intoxicating and it plays a part
in all of our everyday lives,” she says. “A lot of people use it as a form of
escape, of realising a fantasy, and in some ways that becomes an unobtainable
norm. But I think we undermine the consumer by insisting on having such a strict
remit in terms of body ideal as well as appreciation of beauty. I see All Walks
as being a really positive thing, allowing both designer and model to feel less
pressure, and perhaps showcasing the designers' credentials by demonstrating
their ability.”As part of the project, All Walks is putting on an exhibition of
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during London Fashion Week. It's yet another date for O'Connor's busy LFW diary,
but that hasn't prevented her from taking on yet another project.She has teamed
up with her friend, the stylist Kate Halfpenny, to create the clothing line “She
Died of Beauty”. The duo have just launched their first pieces – a collection of
five T-shirts – and are planning on branching into more high-end wares. For now,
they insist upon crawling before they can walk, keeping the collection simple
and shooting the campaign in a photo booth, with O'Connor doing her own hair and
make-up. The project was inspired by her work with the Self-Employed Women's
Association and Traid (Textile Recycling for Aid and International Development),
and makes the argument that ethics and style needn't be mutually exclusive.“I
had this staggering realisation that I'd been working in this industry for over
a decade without ever having truly considered how those garments are made,” she
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