The Real Catwalk

The Real Catwalk is an international movement empowering everybody to see the beauty in themselves and everybody around them.

It’s a celebration of diversity, welcoming all body types regardless of gender, shape, size, disability, and ethnicity.

The Real Catwalk began with the event Beauty Revised in New York. Khrystyana organised the event as a protest, to redefine the rigid and limiting mainstream standards of beauty.

The event was small and successful, leading to the first Real Catwalk. Unlike Beauty Revised, The Real Catwalk was an open event and attracted wider media attention. However all of the models in the first Real Catwalk were women (as that was simply who agreed to take part from the open invitation), which left Khrystyana hungry to expand the concept to something bigger and truly inclusive.

In the summer of 2018 the Real Catwalk returned, this time in London and with a much more diverse cast of models. This is where the ideas of the Real Catwalk were cemented and finally executed to the original vision: an event for everybody and an opportunity for people to assert their own beauty and worth, no matter what.

After returning to New York Khrystyana put on a third Real Catwalk event in the original location of Times Square. The largest one yet, it duplicated the success of London with a wonderfully diverse cast of people from across the world, representing all sorts of identities and defying the belief that beauty is anything less than all-encompassing.

2019 brought the return of both London and New York Real Catwalk events. London was up first, once again in the summer and taking place in Trafalgar Square. The event brought returning and brand new faces together for an event even bigger than the original, with a 2-part show.

Meanwhile, in December The Real Catwalk New York took place in the brand new location of Brooklyn Bridge, which brought a fresh backdrop and spectacle to an event now on its 3rd anniversary. Once again the event led to a huge turnout of people proudly demonstrating that beauty is far more encompassing and diverse than what we were raised to believe.