Androgynous model poses for lingerie photo shoot to show beauty is in the eye …
December 9, 2015 by admin
Filed under Lingerie Events
An androgynous model who has wowed catwalks has donned some seriously luxurious lingerie to prove that different can be sexy too.
Rain Dove Dubilewski says the likes of the Victoria’s Secret catalogues are reserved for a very specific type of beauty and sexuality.
So she’s conducted a controversial project where she’s superimposed real lingerie models’ heads onto her own body to show there can be physical attractiveness in many forms.
Dubilewski, who is signed with Major Models, is often mistaken in her daily life as male or transgender, even though she is neither.
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Wearing her hair close-cropped, and with strong features that are often considered ‘masculine’, she says people like her simply don’t fit the feminine archetype.
Rain said: “Every year I see Victoria’s Secret promote their show as featuring the ‘most beautiful women in the world’.
“During my career path I’ve experienced first-hand what people deem as beautiful. It’s not me. It’s not most people. It’s limited and small. It needs to change.”
Rain Dove was recently in two viral campaigns for Play Out Genderless underwear line, which went viral and spread to over 30 countries.
She was in the Ace Rivington menswear campaign as the first female topless face of a men’s line. She is one of the only models to walk both men’s and women’s New York Fashion Week.
The brunette, who started her career as a model when she was cast in a men’s underwear show, went on: “I’ve been told I’d make a great parts model.
“Designers and advertisers like the idea of my breasts, waist line, long legs and long neck,” she continued. But have literally made gagging noises at my facial features.”
Posing in the same way as the Victoria’s Secret Angels in the Christmas catalogue, Rain Dove has superimposed their faces over hers.
She believes this shows sexy is subjective in an effort to encourage major companies like Victoria’s Secret to redefine what they deem to be the most beautiful women in the world.
“The face of beauty literally needs to change. Which means the way we think of beauty needs to as well.
“That starts with us. Individually. Not hiding ourselves and standing up to say ‘I exist. That alone is beautiful’.”
Rain Dove also works as a humanitarian. She has suffered homelessness and hunger herself and often speaks up and volunteers for organisations dedicated to each, as well as LGBT and environmental rights.
Her degree is in Genetic Engineering and Civil Law from UC Berkeley. She was also a conservation corp firefighter in Colorado prior to her career in fashion.
