You’ve worked with the likes of Steven Meisel and have been featured in numerous fashion titles so early in your career, tell us about those moments and the sentiment they hold. Otherwise, I would just rather work with up-and-coming designers who are representing inclusivity from the beginning. The fashion world is corrupt, and if I’m going to do anything involved in the modelling world – all the jobs and clients I work for – it has to be involved in deconstructing their brand to be more inclusive. I wanted each moment I was a part of to give light to a space that was not filled yet, and give light to a certain way of living and being, and a certain way of thinking – it had to be on a politically correct terrain. My intentions to join the fashion world as a model were to become a representation of myself, people who look like me, and who live like me. I started being recognized as a model in 2014, but I started to model way before I came out as transgender, and this was because of safety reasons, to protect myself. You started your modelling career in 2014, do you remember what your expectations of the industry were before you started? Have your thoughts on the fashion industry changed at all? Bloom has always relied on her father’s advice, recalling that, “he would always preach about how it’s important to be your most natural self, and that being this way is beautiful, so it’s something I’ve always had on my mind.” Bloom points out that her modelling career is not just about creating beautiful imagery, but it’s about being an “activist, freedom fighter, and who wants to build fashion stories around that. While the internet has become the starting point of where members of the LGBTQ community cross paths to share ideas, seek comfort and rally together, but it has also become a black hole of impostor syndrome. “I think it’s important that I use it as a business outlet, and not something personal,” Bloom says of creating boundaries between herself and her social media, where she has 180K followers on Instagram. It’s on an international stage that Bloom’s film has gained clout, proving that trans stories are beyond the narratives of big capital cities. Bloom is a bit of an unconscious-bucket-lister from what I gather - she’s the first trans woman of colour to appear in Vogue India and be in a leading role at Cannes. She plays the part of Wye in Danielle Lessovitz’s debut film, Port Authority. You’ll need to fight and work harder than others.” A trained dancer, model, actress and activist, to this day - there’s no ‘turning’ in Bloom’s career. Her angle is that she’s naturally multifaceted, but also because her father’s advice has always been, “Just know that you’re black, you’re trans, and you’re poor.
This year she made her debut at the Cannes Film Festival, the oracle of the film industry.Īt the two-week-long film festival there’s a category called Un Certain Regard, which simply translates to ‘from another angle’, which perfectly sums up Bloom.
But, what does Bloom have to smile about at only twenty-five years old? Her many talents, of course.
Leyna Bloom is smiling - just take a look for yourself at her Instagram, there’s a wide grin, in every couple of photos, with teeth. Dancer, Model, Activist and Actor, Bloom has defied the odds to storm the industry in style, demanding trans representation in all corners of the arts. The American dream and rising starlet of the silver screen, Leyna Bloom is a formidable quadruple threat.
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