11 stunning models who challenged society’s beauty standards in 2014

The fashion industry is notoriously homogenous — at New York Fashion Week in February, more than three-quarters of the models were white. But fashion’s diversity problem extends beyond just race. The runways focus on one strict standard of beauty, marginalizing models left and right because of unique characteristics.

But each year, more models break through to represent those who fall outside fashion’s provincial standards of beauty.