EVELYN VI NGUYEN Emerging Fashion Model When did you first get into modeling? I have always loved being in front of a camera ever since I was little, but I didn’t start seriously modeling until 2018 even though modeling had always been a dream of mine. I actually had been taking photos here and there just on my iPhone and posting to Instagram when a more prominent New Mexico photographer noticed me and told me I had potential to model and that’s how I got started really modeling.
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Who or What inspired you to be a model? Like I said, I have wanted to model since I was little. I remember seeing models on tv and on billboards and wishing I could be walking on a runway on television like. Now my motivation is to still be the model that I used to see on television and in stores, but to be able
to motivate the little girls who look like me since there are not many Asian models to look up to, and I never really saw models on tv who looked like me, which actually discouraged me in some ways. What style of model do you consider your work to be? I would consider myself to be a print model and a runway model. I do a lot of print work and for my height it makes sense. I am only 5’4 which means I don’t exactly meet the height requirements for “high fashion” to walk runway, but that doesn’t mean I don’t walk runway here in New Mexico. I shoot print a lot more frequently than I walk runway, but I have still walked in many shows and continue to book more shows. Photo by Siv Limary
