I've made such an intriguing Fashion discovery last week as I took a sneak peek at Katy Perry's new music video "E.T.". Indeed, there's a cute guy in the vid that acts as her lover of some shiz and he's quite cute. At first I thought he was a black guy who'd been digitally bleached with Photoshop in order to provide him with a futuristic McQueenesque look. I decided to go check infos about the aforementioned video on Wikipedia to try to find out mysterious guy's identity.
That's when I got to learn that his name is Shaun Ross and he is in fact a real albino with African-American ancestry. Born and raised in the Bronx, Ross is 20 years old and started his Fashion career in a very colorful way; he featured himself in Youtube videos where he argued with his mom and talked about Fashion and obnoxious nonsense. He was then discovered at the tender and incredibly young age of 16 and took a step into the Fashion scene.
Blessed with very pretty features and a killer body, Ross stands out and has worked his way into Fashion and is now credited as being the world's only albino male model. Ross has graced the cover of numerous Fashion magazines including i-D Magazine, Vogue, British GQ, Another Man Magazine and Paper Magazine. He has also modeled for Givenchy and Alexander McQueen and among other powerful couture houses. Back in 2009, Shaun made an appearance on the now-defunct Tyra Banks Show where he talked about his sad childhood growing up as an albino in the Bronx solely surrounded by Black or Latino people. He said he was constantly being taunted and teased and had been attributed nicknames such as "Casper", "Powder" and "Wite Out". He then recalled an event that took place at his High School where he was stabbed in the back by one of his bullies while on detention.
Even though his story is gloomy, it's a merry thing to know that he's managed to get the fuck outta tha Bronx, rock Fashion runways, pose for notorious Fashion photographers, travel the world and meet Tyra! U rock girl!
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| Michael Jackson would totally agree...! |
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| Ad for "Mad Maus" soirées in Montréal |
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| in Katy Perry's "E.T." |
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| With Montreal-based designer Denis Gagnon |
--> Some sources that I have found claim that Mr. Ross was in town last summer to host a Mad Maus party, how cool? He said he finds that Montreal could be apparented to Berlin, Germany and that Berlin is his favourite city. Shown below is a video of Shaun Ross strolling around NYC:
--> I like his hairdo à la Grace Jones and his diva attitude lol!
