I’M KIND OF SLUTTY, so when I’m wearing clothes, I’m not wearing that much,” says the model Alex Consani, stuffing a bunch of miniskirts into a tiny carry-on. In a couple of hours, the 20-year-old is heading to Couture Week in Paris, and though she doesn’t know what time she boards, or what airport she’s flying out of, or whether she’s even walking in any of the shows yet, she doesn’t seem stressed out. It’s tempting to try to mother her. Her Brooklyn apartment is decorated with little more than a fake house plant taken off the curb (“It had cat litter in it,” she says, “so I put it in the shower and scrubbed it with my bodywash”) and a Wii console. Of course, she has America’s Next Top Model the video game, which she describes as “sick, sick.”
Consani looks like what you’d expect a model to look like: bleach blonde, willowy thin, a little over six feet tall—“I’m a taaaaalllllll biiiiiiitch. I’m a real she-male bitch!” she tells me— with a face just unique enough to stand out from the rest of the blonde, skinny, angular girls on the runway. She also happens to be probably the busiest trans model working at this exact moment, having, in barely three years, walked for Alexander McQueen, Versace, Burberry, Chloé, Thom Browne, Ludovic de Saint Sernin, Marc Jacobs, and Givenchy.
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