Melanie Gaydos, Mol Wh Rare Medil Disorr, Tak on the Fashn Indtry

Contents:

• WHO IS MELANIE GAYDOS? HOW SHE'S BREAKG BARRIERS IN THE FASHN INDTRY
• MOL MELANIE GAYDOS HAS A RARE GEIC DISORR—AND SHE'S TAKG OVER THE FASHN WORLD
• HOW METALHEAD MOL MELANIE GAYDOS IS FIGHTG TO REFE BETY
• MELANIE GAYDOS: PARTIALLY BLD ART GRADUATE BORN WH RARE NDN LNCH SUCCSFUL MOLLG REER NEW YORK
• HOW MOL MELANIE GAYDOS IS REFG BETY WH THE FASHN INDTRY
• MELANIE GAYDOS: RARE DISEASE, CAREER, BOYIEND & NET WORTH
• MELANIE GAYDOS, MOL WH RARE MEDIL DISORR, TAK ON THE FASHN INDTRY
• MELANIE GAYDOS
• MELANIE GAYDOS

WHO IS MELANIE GAYDOS? HOW SHE'S BREAKG BARRIERS IN THE FASHN INDTRY

LiftyleLisa KlappeMelanie Gaydos is a 28-year-old mol livg Seattle who is changg the dtry standards the fashn was born wh Ectormal dysplasia (ED), the blanket term for a group of closely related ndns wh over 150 different syndrom intified. Afterward, Gaydos began posg for photographers she found on Craigslist, and has sce moled for i-D, Galore, and Love magaz. Gaydos has sgle-handly acplished all of this bad-assery wh no molg agency ntract and no, Gaydos' Journey Has Not Been Whout StggleThe mol endured bullyg elementary school and is even open about once havg suicidal thoughts.

And Her Days Are Lookg Incredibly BrightGaydos is a by recently wrapped up a mic vio LA for an artist that nnot be revealed at the time of publitn, will travel to New York this weekend for three days to meet wh old clients, and will then hop on a plane to shoot for Berl Fashn Week. I'm tired jt om wrg that, but Gaydos' voice gave away her excement on the phone.

She's got dreams of not only molg for the Alexanr McQueen fashn hoe one day (he was one of the spiratns for her to start her reer), but also to ntue changg mastream bety Gaydos ghed over the phone about how much she loved workg wh photographer, Tim Walker, and all of the projects she has g up, one of the most important jobs for her is simply shakg thgs up the fashn mol scribed how she feels about people gravatg to her. Melanie Gaydos don't look like other mols. Gaydos, 28, liv Seattle now but grew up on the East Coast.

MOL MELANIE GAYDOS HAS A RARE GEIC DISORR—AND SHE'S TAKG OVER THE FASHN WORLD

"Unlike the typil mol orig story, Gaydos wasn't "disvered" by anyone. While she still fds gigs on Craigslist, Gaydos has moled for major avant gar publitns like i-D, Galore, and Love magaz.

Gaydos seems extremely unperturbed—and remarkably, she's been like that sce she was a kid. Gaydos also name drops albo mol Shn Ross and Wnie Harlow, a former Ameri's Next Top Mol nttant turned super star who happens to have a sk-pigmentatn disorr.

""Every year seems to broan and bee a ltle more open-md, " Gaydos says of the dtry. "Next up, Gaydos is flyg to Berl for fashn week, then wrappg up a film shoot Paris. "It mt seem so silly to Gaydos that other women worry about their thigh gaps, or the way their hair curls, or the soft roll of fat around their belli: "Everybody has their own securi...

HOW METALHEAD MOL MELANIE GAYDOS IS FIGHTG TO REFE BETY

Melanie Gaydos, an experienced young mol wh a strikg, unique look, was posg outsi a "very ld" abandoned sanatorium at her very first big shoot: a mic vio for German dtrial-metal juggernt Rammste, directed by famed Spanish fashn photographer Eugen Recuen. Gaydos was a big fan of both, havg disvered Rammste and Recuen almost simultaneoly when she was 11 or 12.

Heavy-metal mic like Rammste's and visual art like Recuen's "dark but super-refed and betiful" photography helped Gaydos fd herself as a kid growg up "super-suburban" Tmbell, Connecticut. In "Abercrombie Land, " as she lls , where everyone was preppy and, at least outwardly, perfect, Gaydos didn't f . Gaydos as "Death" Sylwia Makris' "Tarot" photo seri, 2018.

MELANIE GAYDOS: PARTIALLY BLD ART GRADUATE BORN WH RARE NDN LNCH SUCCSFUL MOLLG REER NEW YORK

Gaydos wasn't always ma to feel that way growg up. This fiant, n-do attu really began to take shape durg Gaydos' middle-school years.

For Gaydos, the mic "was really theraptic, " she says, "bee I had a bad childhood and I really wasn't accepted society general, and I never unrstood why. Gaydos wearg Ashley Rose Couture, 2017.

HOW MOL MELANIE GAYDOS IS REFG BETY WH THE FASHN INDTRY

In "Abercrombie Land, " Gaydos exprsed herself large part through her fashn choic. " Pk raver pants might be banned om her wardrobe, but today Gaydos is rockg a long, black puffer at led ostentatly wh pk fx fur.

MELANIE GAYDOS: RARE DISEASE, CAREER, BOYIEND & NET WORTH

In high school, she had found a group of iends and a rebell inty; at Pratt, before she started molg, Gaydos found herself isolated and unhappy.

"I thk, some way, I was only tryg to be accepted by others, " Gaydos adds. At the rultg Rammste vio shoot — for the song "Me Herz Brennt" — Gaydos found the creative llaboratn she craved. Acrdg to Gaydos, workg wh Rammste right out of the gat jumpstarted her molg reer the band's homeland, and is why, to this day, she mostly works out of Berl, returng to the U.

But Gaydos has also done plenty of molg other European untri, cludg Poland, where, last year, she shot Behemoth's "God = Dog" vio and the black-metal band's I Loved You at Your Darkt rerd packagg. Polish photographer Sylwia Makris — who had worked wh Gaydos for her "Old Masters" project, which recreated old masters' patgs and ught the eye of Behemoth ma man Adam Nergal Darski — was the mol's nnectn to the project.

MELANIE GAYDOS, MOL WH RARE MEDIL DISORR, TAK ON THE FASHN INDTRY

"Me" is a word that often up regard to Gaydos.

(Gaydos lls Rose "a visnary.

") In 2018, tattoo artist Kat Von D celebrated the 10th anniversary of her makp le Kat Von D Bety wh a "M" mpaign, which featured Gaydos as one of s 10 m and clud the release of a limed-edn eyhadow palette wh a rosy cream eyhadow named after her.

MELANIE GAYDOS

As proud as Gaydos is of all the llaboratns wh and adjacent to the rock world, she's leery of beg pigeonholed as an "alternative" mol. I am hired bee I f a certa fantasy, " Gaydos acknowledg.

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For better or worse, horror and heavy metal are obv and potentially profable arenas for Gaydos to specialize , but her life th far has not been easy, and she's not about to pass up a fight now. Gaydos se thgs gettg better. "I tly thk that when you jt are yourself, you n really be an example for other people who are stgglg, " Gaydos says wh a se.

For ee real time breakg news alerts sent straight to your box sign up to our breakg news emailsSign up to our ee breakg news emailsMelanie Gaydos is one of a growg number of mols challengg and transformg the fashn was born wh ectormal dysplasia, a ndn that mak her por, teeth, nails and small bon form abnormally. Throughout her life, Gaydos says she has been treated as if she was ill or ntag, wh may people feelg timated by her apperance. Melanie Gaydos (Getty Imag)"I also found I was more fortable wh myself how I am, whout any enhancements.

"Gaydos, an art graduate based New York Cy, has worked wh photographers cludg the world renowned Spanish photographer Eugen Recuen and unts Miley Cys as a 27-year-old’s reer took off after she rpond to an advert on Craigslist lookg for “unique people” for fashn photographers to shoot while she was still a said a boyiend persuad her to start mollg “jt for fun”, spe hatg havg her picture taken, before beg chosen to appear a vio for the German metal band Rammste, which was also directed by ial rpons to her pictur onle and on social media were surprise and shock. Mostly people were speechls, " she succs the mollg world heralds change wh the dtry, but Gaydos warned that while the fashn dtry is beg more clive, is still a slow procs.