Booked and Busy: Alex Consani
One fashion season. Impossibly booked. Alex Consani is one of the top models in the industry right now, and her Fall/Winter '25 season was chock-full of the most high-profile runways out there.
Alex Consani for Marc Jacobs FW25. Photo available via Marc Jacobs. ©All rights belong to their respective owners. No copyright infringement intended.
The fever pitch of “The Big Four” major fashion weeks brings what seems like an endless number of collections, designs, and collaborations to keep up with. Social media manages to bring this sea of content to our fingertips, leaving little of the runway experience to our imaginations. Few individuals know this interconnection more than Alex Consani. She was everywhere this season: Hermès, McQueen, Duran Lantink, Coperni, Versace, Fendi, Moschino, and that’s not even naming them all. Blink and you’ll miss her walk before she’s on to her next. This FW25 season’s success is coming off her winning the 2024 Fashion Awards’ Model of the Year last year, where she became the first trans model to receive the honor. Back in October of last year, she was one of the two trans women to walk the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show in its history. Though she herself is helping to pave the way for trans models, she acknowledged in her Model of the Year acceptance speech those who did the same for her, “But I can’t accept this award without thanking those who came before me, specifically the Black trans women who really fought for the space I’m in today… Dominique Jackson, Connie Fleming, Aaron Rose Phillips, and countless more who fought for the space that allowed me to flourish today.”
Alex backstage with her 2024 Model of the Year award. Photos available via Getty Images. ©All rights belong to their respective owners. No copyright infringement intended.
With nearly 5 million followers on TikTok and over 2 million on Instagram, Alex Consani’s online popularity has gone hand in hand with her prowess on the runway. Outside of the fashion industry, she is beloved by fans for her online presence and humor. Her antics carry over into behind-the-scenes interviews, continually both entertaining and capturing viewers who watch clips of her only moments later in a dominating strut down the catwalk. A model’s image is their livelihood, not often do we see models willingly showcasing quirks like Alex does. Alex’s social media engagement, on the other hand, has become inseparable from that image. Her social media presence can be seen as the opening of a channel between models and their widespread audiences; she’s found a way to appeal to top fashion houses and Gen Z social media followers alike, creating her now signature blend of poise and personality. A drawback of such a blend, of such online icon status, is the expectation she will act as people see online. Social media has long been blurring the line between reality and digital spaces, and often people like Alex come to exist in that blur. The price of acting as that channel between the fashion runway and social media viewers at home leads to an expectation of a performance at any time. Social media grants that sort of accessibility, but for Alex, that can come at the expense of her work. How she copes with those expectations to perform or provide content is a powerful element of her persona and something that comes from Alex herself: the giving and receiving of respect. As a trans model in spaces that have historically been more than unwelcoming, she values a work approach in which she doesn’t fear missing an opportunity if it compromises her in some way. She tells Interview Magazine, “I think that allowing people to have space to do what they want morally is what fashion needs to create a truly diverse space. If people are really representing themselves and their communities, it’s important to hear when they don’t feel comfortable.” Vulnerability is closely intertwined with authenticity, and getting to know Alex beyond the runway or screen invites a deeper appreciation for her passion and role as a young trans model breaking down barriers.
A series of runway shots in Alex’s celebratory end of season post on her Instagram. Photo available via IG @alexconsani. ©All rights belong to their respective owners. No copyright infringement intended.
Alex has been dominating in two spheres that operate largely on public perception. Both modeling and social media are at the mercy of how things look, how they appear to an audience. Such audiences are capricious, seemingly deciding at the drop of a hat who or what is in their good graces. Alex’s success, and her way of grounding herself, comes in knowing her life extends beyond this plane of offer and reception. Her ability to differentiate between her job as a model and her life as a person provides for that authenticity which draws people to her. She is on her way to continued stardom and is only 21 years old. Her energy and versatility will carry her as far as she wants to go. How she can represent something as critical as trans representation in the fashion industry while bringing joy is powerful and needed. She carries weight on her shoulders, but her willingness to embrace her position in the industry while acknowledging the groups ever-underrepresented is history-making and an act of strength, with the potential to make way for other models who deserve the same recognition. There is more to Alex than we see if we look only to her professional or social side. Through it all, we see talent and a will to live boldly and authentically, all while walking the most visible runway shows in the world.
