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Last shot from with beauty .rose for with the amazing and Hair by me using Thanks for having me!!! Posted • Growing up, model Quannah Chasinghorse (.rose)—whose Indigenous ancestry is both Hän Gwich’in (from Alaska and Canada) and Oglala Lakota (from South Dakota)—rarely saw her culture represented in the fashion she voraciously consumed. “I was obsessed with watching runway shows on television—Dior, Chanel, Prada—and I was always posing for pictures,” she says, but because of this lack of representation, “it was really hard for me to feel like I had the potential to be a model.”

Fast-forward a few years, though, and Chasinghorse, 19 and now living in and working from Fairbanks, Alaska, is one of modeling’s freshest new faces after first being cast in a 2020 Calvin Klein campaign that stressed the importance of voting. A few months later, she signed with IMG Models, and it’s about time. Chasinghorse is breaking barriers in an industry that has long overlooked Indigenous talent.

Armed with her traditional Hän Gwich’in tattoos, the model is at once redefining beauty, honoring a Native practice dating back more than 10,000 years, and challenging the notion that all models should be a blank canvas.

At the link in our bio, read how the model has signaled an exciting new era for Indigenous representation in fashion. Photographed by , styled by , Vogue, October 2021

Another shot from with beauty .rose for with the amazing and Hair by me using Thanks for having me!!! Posted • Growing up, model Quannah Chasinghorse (.rose)—whose Indigenous ancestry is both Hän Gwich’in (from Alaska and Canada) and Oglala Lakota (from South Dakota)—rarely saw her culture represented in the fashion she voraciously consumed. “I was obsessed with watching runway shows on television—Dior, Chanel, Prada—and I was always posing for pictures,” she says, but because of this lack of representation, “it was really hard for me to feel like I had the potential to be a model.”

Fast-forward a few years, though, and Chasinghorse, 19 and now living in and working from Fairbanks, Alaska, is one of modeling’s freshest new faces after first being cast in a 2020 Calvin Klein campaign that stressed the importance of voting. A few months later, she signed with IMG Models, and it’s about time. Chasinghorse is breaking barriers in an industry that has long overlooked Indigenous talent.

Armed with her traditional Hän Gwich’in tattoos, the model is at once redefining beauty, honoring a Native practice dating back more than 10,000 years, and challenging the notion that all models should be a blank canvas.

At the link in our bio, read how the model has signaled an exciting new era for Indigenous representation in fashion. Photographed by , styled by , Vogue, October 2021