Athletes’ Stock Rises In Fashion Industry
Forget plus size models. Female athletes, according to a story today in the New York Times, are pushing the boundaries of what the public perceives as ‘classic beauty.’ Guy Trebay pegs his argument on a long roster of muscular, yet cosmetic endorsement-ready sports stars–from Maria Sharapova and Mia Hamm to the Williams sisters. But a new face, that of women’s basketball player Brittney Griner, is apparently giving the cause even more steam.
“She is part of a slowly unfolding civilized response in the country to the slightly androgynous female,” a scholar tells the paper. “I can imagine a market for that,” Paul Rowland–a revered scout at the modeling agency, Women–adds of his potentially signing a gender-bending, yet conventionally “good-looking” female athlete such as Griner.
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