Model and artist, Orla Carolin. Image by Mollie Dendle.
LUX contributing editor and Storm model, Sydney Lima continues her online exclusive series, interviewing her peers about modelling life and business.
Sydney Lima
THIS MONTH: Orla Carolin has been signed to London?s Storm Model agency for less than a year and has already been making waves on both the fashion and art circuits. Born and based in South-East London, the 18-year-old works as both a model and fine artist as one of the founding members of South London Art and Music Collective NINE8. So far, she has shot editorials for Wonderland, Pylot and graced the cover of cult magazine ‘Zodiac‘.
Sydney Lima: What first made you want to get into modelling"

Orla Carolin: I?d be lying if I said modelling was something I was pursuing when I first started – it more got sprung upon me – but i?m grateful it did! SL: What do you enjoy about modelling"

OC: You just witness a lot from other people?s creative processes and by watching the way they present their artistic vision/identity, you learn a lot about your own.
SL: Is there anything you don’t like about modelling"

OC: Like any industry there?s definitely room for development. In modelling the representation of people of colour needs to be improved. When I first started modelling I was shocked in the realisation that whilst on the surface of the fashion world, progression has been made, the type of people who are in power to make...