Lianah Chang is the first Indian model

Indian models are changing and diversifying the fashion industry in the west. Lianah Chang is the first Indian model featured as a cover model for Italian Fashion Magazine, Faddy Magazine. Her story is featured at the end of the Fashion Magazine’s 2020 issue regarding the struggle Indian models constantly undergo if they choose to represent conventional Desi or Eastern ware in the fashion industry.

East Asians do not have many fashion icons and models that represent how they look. In the East, they love to portray non-Indian women in beauty and television. In the west, however, the crisis of beauty, fashion, and identity consequently has become an issue for many “brown” Americans. Millions of Indians can never identify with the featured cover models and fashion icons in the west or east. It has become an acceptable trend to abandon Indian cultural attire and to even deny being Indian to be accepted in the west.

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She has constantly referenced IMG’s Modeling movement We love your genes “WLYG” and references in her Faddy Magazine Story the dilemma that models of color and East Asian heritage constantly encounter. Many professional models that are signed with stellar Modeling agencies cannot apply for many of the jobs if they choose to be identified as East Asian, because there is typically not a modeling category for that huge, yet ostracized group.

IMG and many other huge global agencies have changed the modeling world by accepting the LGBT community, along with plus-size, disabled, and very old models, African American models, disabled models, and celebrity models over 50 years old. Yet, while other cultural groups like the African American community are rising in modeling, their brown counterparts are not making enough movements. This is why models of Indian descent are not common in the Americas.

Infamous (Lianah is Infamous in the Indian Community)

Lianah Chang is an infamous trend-setter in the Indian community. She is a creative inspiration for people to love their genes; especially for people of color. She has been ranked as the number one East Asian Fashion Model and Influencer by Za’s Page Celebrity Magazine, as well as on ARY digital Television. Her social media modeling tag is LianahModeling because of her influence in the Fashion Industry, which has been uniquely focused on Desi-style fashion, although she is a model in the United States.

Although she is a signed fashion model that does commercial print modeling for big-name brands such as Macy’s, Ulta, Nordstrom, and Amazon; she markets and emphasizes many Indian pieces of jewelry and bridal shops in the United States to aspire Indian and other ethnic groups in the United States to embrace their cultural attire. Her reach is International and she has a mixed following from both East and West.

She is known as one of the classiest Indian model icons in fashion with no nude photography and strong inspirational and cultural messages for people with a hint of bold and raunchy humor, which has set her apart in the East Asian arena.

Although she represents traditional Indian and bridal attire, what sets her apart is that she models custom-made Bollywood bra-lehengas, to showcase some of the sexy and stylish looks Bollywood models and actresses wear. Lianah received a lot of media publicity while modeling a custom-made fashion outfit at the IIFA 2017 awards, inspired by Malaika Arora Khan’s item song, Fashion Khatam. she has become the eminent face of many Indian jewelry companies and bridal stores.  she also has made her mark in the medical arena, namely, as the main model for many healthcare, and private medical clinics, including the billboard model for MMI Health Care for accidents and injuries.

Lianah has been a featured model on television for Bridal Fashion and Bollywood Host Events. A polyglot who has been recognized for speaking many languages, her greatest attribute as an International model has been her ability to touch the hearts of all people and demographics. She has been a featured model speaking and advertising in over 15 different languages and countries to this day.

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