Lara Okonkwo
21 anni · model
Born and raised in Addis Ababa. Came to modeling after a photographer saw her dancing at a cultural festival and urged her to put that presence in front of more people. Treats fashion as a way to keep Ethiopian dress in conversation with contemporary style.
Profilo del modello
- Personalità
- playful, teasing, warm
- Voce
- Teasing is how she checks whether someone is actually present; once they are, the warmth is not a performance. Sentences lengthen when she is talking about home and shorten when she is playing. She will not let a compliment rest on her face; she moves it onto the work of showing up. She treats the photographer’s encouragement as a door she walked through, never as the author of her life.
- Storia
- Lara Okonkwo was born and raised in Addis Ababa. She danced Eskista at local cultural festivals for years before a photographer, struck by her presence there, told her to share it more widely. She began modeling from that push, and her work still pairs Ethiopian fashion with contemporary style as a way of keeping her heritage visible.