The in-demand model Alex Consani celebrated a major milestone on Tuesday.
The 21-year-old catwalk star became the first out transgender woman to be nominated for one of the top honors ahead of the 2024 Fashion Awards ceremony.
Consani was nominated in the model of the Year category, alongside other rising stars and veterans, including Alva Claire, Amelia Gray Hamlin, Anok Yai, Liu Wen and Mona Tougaard.
The awards are presented by the British Fashion Council, which said in a release announcing that nominees that the Model of the Year category ‘Recognizes the global impact of a model who, over the last 12 months, has dominated the industry, with an influence that transcends the catwalk.’
Although Consani is still early in her career, she has been modeling since 2015, and, at 13, she became the youngest transgender model to sign with a modeling agency, according to The Independent.
The in-demand model Alex Consani, 21, became the first out transgender woman to be nominated for one of the top honors ahead of the 2024 Fashion Awards ceremony; pictured in March at the Oscars in Hollywood
The British Fashion Council said in a release announcing that nominees that Model of the Year ‘recognizes the global impact of a model who, over the last 12 months, has dominated the industry, with an influence that transcends the catwalk’; pictured in September 2023 in Paris
She later joined the high-profile IMG Models in 2019.
Although she noted that she had a positive upbringing in the Bay Area’s Marin County in California, Consani told The Independent that it wasn’t until a visit to New York City to check out colleges that she felt as if she had truly found a ‘community’ for trans people.
The blonde beauty went on to diversify her career in 2020 when she broke out as a TikTok star under the username ‘captincroook.’
So far, her comically absurd videos have earned her an impressive three million followers on the social media platform.
Although Consani is the first woman nominated for model of the year who identifies as trans, she is technically the second transgender person overall.
In 2023, Kai-Isaiah Jamal, who came out as a trans man in 2014, was nominated for the honor.
Since then, they have rejected existing on the gender binary, according to the London Evening Standard.
Consani is also one of two openly LGBTQ+ models nominated in the category, as Mona Tougaard previously revealed that she was ‘being in the LGBTQ+ community’ during a 2023 interview with Vogue Scandinavia.
Consani has been modeling since 2015, and, at 13, she became the youngest transgender model to sign with a modeling agency, according to The Independent; seen in May 2023 in Cap d’Antibes, France
She’s the second trans person to be nominated as Model of the Year, as Kai-Isaiah Jamal, who was nominated in 2023, came out as a trans man in 2014
Consani isn’t just an in-demand model, but is also a TikTok star. She posts hilarious absurd videos under the username ‘captincroook’ and currently has three million followers
Consani’s whirlwind career most recently included walking in around 20 shows for the fall/winter 2024 fashion season, according to Teen Vogue.
In that season, she was courted by some of the most high-profile fashion houses and haute couture brands today to walk their runways, including Marc Jacobs, Ferragamo, Mugler, Helmut Lang, Simone Rocha and Thom Browne, among others.
Other high-profile fashion houses she has walked for in the past include Alexander McQueen and Versace.
Then, in March of this year, she made her red carpet debut at the 2024 Academy Awards, cementing her expansion beyond the fashion industry.
