At just 22 years old, Alex Consani has already achieved legendary status in the fashion industry. Born in Petaluma, California in 2003, she was barely a teenager when her mother signed her up with Slay Model Management, an agency exclusively representing transgender talent. By 16, she was with IMG Models, and before long she was walking for Alexander McQueen, Versace, and Burberry, making her runway debut at Tom Ford in 2021. Since then, she’s become a fixture of fashion weeks and campaigns, starred in Charli XCX’s 360 video, and last year became the first trans woman to win Model of the Year at the British Fashion Awards. She also walked in the rebooted Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, one of the first trans models to do so. For a generation raised online, Consani is more than just a model, but a cultural figure who embodies visibility, risk, and rebellion.
That’s what makes her latest remarks so striking. In Dazed’s Autumn 2025 issue, she admitted that after speaking up about Palestine, she was told by people in the industry to stay quiet. “When I talked about the sh—t happening in Palestine, people were like, ‘Maybe don’t say that.’ Some of my friends were like, ‘I talked about it and now I haven’t been working for months.’” But Consani refused to shrink back. “For me, it’s a moral belief. I’m not scared to speak about what I believe in, especially when it comes to human lives. We were given a platform to speak, so why not take it, no?”
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Her insistence on using that platform is a bold statement about what kind of public figure she wants to be. In an industry that often rewards silence, the model is clear-eyed about the consequences. “I feel like I’m so outspoken already about being trans, so when I speak about anything else it’s like, ‘Oh, the tr—ny said this, the tr—ny said that.’” The way she frames it, everything she says is already politicized. That hasn’t stopped her, but it makes the calculus heavier. “I’ll talk about it… but it can be a bit difficult to speak about it in a way that won’t create more hate towards my identity as a trans person.”
Still, there’s a defiance in her voice that feels inseparable from her identity. “Our identities are already something that we have to fight for, and you kind of just have to say ‘f—k it’ and speak about what you believe in, because you’re not going to change who you are, right?” She knows she’s already risked so much simply by being visible; adding political solidarity to the mix feels like a natural extension rather than an additional gamble.
That’s why her words land with such weight. Consani isn’t just another model with an Instagram following—she’s someone whose career has already broken barriers, whose very presence on the runway rewrote what mainstream beauty can look like. When someone like that refuses to stay quiet about Palestine, it matters. It sends a signal to peers who might otherwise stay silent, and to fans who see in her a mirror of their own struggles. As she put it, “It’s really important to stand on what you believe personally, morally, and take that information in and do something about it in the way you feel that you can, safely.”
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