Alex Consani makes history by becoming first out transgender woman nominated for Model of the Year at 2024 Fashion Awards

Popular model Alex Consani celebrated a major milestone on Tuesday.

The 21-year-old catwalk star is the first openly transgender woman to be nominated for one of the top awards ahead of the 2024 Fashion Awards.

Consani was nominated in the Model of the Year category, along with other rising stars and veterans including Alva Claire, Amelia Gray Hamlin, Anok Yai, Liu Wen and Mona Tougaard.

The awards are presented by the British Fashion Council. In a press release, the council said the nominees in the Model of the Year category “recognize the global impact of a model who has dominated the industry over the past 12 months, with influence that extends beyond the catwalk.”

Although Consani is still in the early stages of her career, she has been modeling since 2015 and at age 13, she became the youngest transgender model to sign a contract with a modeling agency, according to The Independent.

The British Fashion Council said in a press release that Model of the Year nominees “recognize the global impact of a model who has dominated the industry over the past 12 months, with an influence that extends beyond the catwalk”; pictured in Paris in September 2023

In 2019, she joined the controversial IMG Models.

Although she said she had a positive upbringing in Marin County in California’s Bay Area, Consani told The Independent that it wasn’t until a visit to New York City to look at colleges that she felt like she had truly found a “community” for transgender people.

The blonde beauty gave her career a new dimension in 2020 when she broke through as a TikTok star under the username ‘captincroook.’

So far, her comically absurd videos have earned her an impressive three million followers on the social media platform.

While Consani is the first woman nominated for Model of the Year who identifies as trans, she is technically the second transgender person overall.

In 2023, Kai-Isaiah Jamal, who came out as trans in 2014, was nominated for this honor.

Since then, they have rejected existence in the gender binary structure, the London Evening Standard.

Consani is also one of two openly LGBTQ+ models nominated in this category, as Mona Tougaard previously revealed that she is “part of the LGBTQ+ community” during a 2023 interview with Vogue Scandinavia.

Consani has been a model since 2015 and at the age of 13 became the youngest transgender model to sign a contract with a modeling agency, according to The Independent; seen in Cap d’Antibes, France in May 2023

She is the second transgender person to be nominated for Model of the Year, since Kai-Isaiah Jamal, who was nominated in 2023, came out as transgender in 2014.

Consani is not only a sought-after model, but also a TikTok star. She posts hilariously absurd videos under the username ‘captincroook’ and currently has three million followers

According to Consani, her whirlwind career recently included walking in approximately 20 shows for the fall/winter 2024 fashion season. Teen Vogue.

That season she was approached by some of today’s most prominent fashion houses and haute couture brands, including Marc Jacobs, Ferragamo, Mugler, Helmut Lang, Simone Rocha and Thom Browne.

Other notable fashion houses she has walked for in the past include Alexander McQueen and Versace.

In March of this year, she made her red carpet debut at the 2024 Academy Awards, confirming her expansion beyond the fashion industry.