Cameron Russell is at the top of her modelling game, with loyal clients that include JCrew and H&M. But she’s thoroughly focused on Interrupt, the magazine she created following her wildly successful TEDTalk.<\/p>\n
She chatted about the project on the TEDBlog. Here are our highlights:<\/p>\n
Welcome to Space-Made\u2014the art lab where Cameron Russell and her collaborators create Interrupt, a magazine that lets marginalized communities tell their own stories. It\u2019s a concept that the supermodel felt compelled to launch after her TED Talk, \u201cLooks aren\u2019t everything. Believe me, I\u2019m a model,\u201d went viral.<\/p>\n
In the talk, Russell shared her surprise at how often young girls want to know how they too could be models. \u201cWhy?\u201d Russell asked on-stage, \u201cYou can be anything. You could be the President of the United States, or the inventor of the next Internet, or a ninja cardio-thoracic surgeon poet, which would be awesome, because you\u2019d be the first one.\u201d In her talk, Russell stressed that modeling is not a sustainable career path. \u201cYou don\u2019t have any creative control,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
As Russell hopped off the stage, she started cooking up an idea: to create her own magazine.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m totally fascinated by undervalued leaders and experts,\u201d says Russell, \u201cWhy does our media ignore them, why does our electoral system ignore them? I wanted to build a sustainable platform for them\u2014be it a magazine, a media outlet or a physical space, a network. I think there are a lot of different iterations.\u201d<\/p>\n
In addition to running this ambitious, big-vision magazine, Russell is still modeling. \u201cIn the last two years I\u2019ve been more successful as a model than I ever have been,\u201d says Russell. \u201cEleven years of it later, I\u2019m still trying to find how it\u2019s useful.\u201d<\/p>\n
When she started modeling, Russell assumed that the job would phase out after college\u2014she thought it would be something with a definitive expiration date. But while it\u2019s never what she imagined doing for her career, she maintains that it has been useful for giving her access to experiences, and that it has financially helped her get an education and start projects like Interrupt. In the end, she\u2019s embraced it as a part of her identity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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