Transgender Model and Fashion

Imagine conquering the runway during a global pandemic while preparing for your wedding – sounds like a script for the silver screen. 

Well, for our remarkable guest, Livia Wolfe, it's just another day in the life. 

Join Shelbe Chang and Michelle Herman as we traverse the highs and lows of fashion modeling with a determined spirit who's not only rocking bridal gowns on the LA Fashion Week runway but also aced nutrition in college, proving extreme dieting has no place in her success story.

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Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:00

when COVID happened. So they were them, and at the time lots of other designers, including some in Japan, invited me to Tokyo and I'm like, yes, that's awesome, but COVID kept taking them. So I was supposed to do New York, los Angeles, chicago, tokyo at that point and I'll fall through. And so I kept up with that. I kept in touch with everyone, I kept doing my workouts, I kept on starving a little bit eating lots of stuff.

Speaker 1: 0:33

I don't starve at all, and please don't do that for anything. Don't try this on. Yeah, I got an A in nutrition in college. It's totally not good for you, I promise.

Speaker 2: 0:44

Yeah, you look great. I remember I saw one of your photo. You were in a wedding kind of sort of dress.

Speaker 3: 0:52

Oh yeah.

Speaker 1: 0:53

Is that?

Speaker 2: 0:53

part of the modeling gig.

Speaker 1: 0:55

Yeah yeah, that was Los Angeles Fashion Week just at the end of March, and so I got to go to LA After New York. New York was February and then March we went to Los Angeles and did the runway there and did some photo shoots the day after in Beverly Hills, which was really fun. I guess we're four different outfits and a bunch of accessories from three different companies and, yeah, the wedding dress is from a Quartico clothing company. I love it.

Speaker 2: 1:25

You look very sexy in it.

Speaker 1: 1:26

Thank you, and I'm getting. I don't know if you know, but I'm getting married by the end of, well before October, wow, really. So congratulations, thank you. I think that's why they put me in a wedding dress. They're like yeah, we're going to put you in a wedding dress.

Speaker 2: 1:41

You need to prevent a manifest right. Yes, exactly.

Speaker 3: 1:45

Exactly so how did you get involved with the trans clothing company, that's any aspiring model or actress or just influencer of any kind.

Speaker 1: 1:54

Really, I think you should spend a lot of time with Instagram. People are more serious about work related things there compared to Facebook instance, and I have gotten so much work. Do you have an agent right now that can do those casting?

Speaker 2: 2:08

I'm not signed anywhere, I don't have a contract.

Speaker 1: 2:10

But electrifying, I'm not a person, I'm not a person, I'm not a person, I don't have a contract, but electro models has helped me a lot, just really since Los Angeles, and they hooked me up with some designers that I'll be walking for at Miami Swim Week in July, and then New York again and Los Angeles and San Francisco, so I'll be doing multiple designers at each of those fashion weeks.

Speaker 2: 2:41

So if our audience or listener are, can start week and they find you Like the best place yeah, the best place to find me right now.

Speaker 1: 2:51

You know I have a calm and just livey wolf calm, but don't go there yet. Go there soon. It's, it's under construction Again. I don't get to sleep.

Speaker 2: 3:00

So we have a website design. Yeah, so she can help anyone please?

Speaker 1: 3:08

I'm begging so website is not, then I need like tabs for each of the things I do. Many tabs many times.

Speaker 2: 3:16

Yeah so not website, but where should we?

Speaker 1: 3:19

but, yeah, my, my main presence, where you can get to everything in one location, is on Linktree, and I think most of us have probably heard of that, and I think we'll put up my link tree link at the End of this video and click on it. Okay, and it's pretty simple, it's just link tree. You know, with my name, libby Wolf, and it has. It has links to, for instance, articles that have come out, including me and Forbes magazine. Yeah, that was a big one, I'm like yeah.

Speaker 3: 3:56

She has a very long link tree and so we encourage you to go look at it from the interviews and the her tone are storing various places and the Forbes with other trans models, which is very amazing and exciting to see.

Speaker 1: 4:08

Yeah, and that and please add at this interview to your link tree to yeah, I absolutely will, of course, thank you, yeah, and with TCC trans clothing company, it's it's. It's an important company, regardless, because you know everyone involved is either trans or non-binary gender not conforming. Yeah, it's, it's beautiful. So, and we made it all the way to New York Fashion Week at Sony Hall, which to me was just a dream come true, really of course.

Speaker 3: 4:41

Yeah, I love, I love that it's Of course. The name is trans clothing company. There's not anything treated, just it's there, it's bold, it's in front of you and here we are and we're not going anywhere.

Speaker 1: 4:54

Exactly, it's in your face to let everyone know. Exactly trans, specific the things are designed to, to fit us, um, of course, which we I know we have lots of trouble with. Yes, right upper body for the most part, anyway, fitting certain things, but, yeah, I really love it. The designer, her name, actually their name, they're non-binary is Melissa K Atkinson.

Speaker 2: 5:19

Okay. Do they have a online stores or wait for people can find it, do you?

Speaker 1: 5:24

know. Yeah, you can. Uh, you can just look up trans clothing company. I think it's net or dot shop. I apologize, no, you can just open it.

Speaker 2: 5:35

Yeah, we're fine, all right. Yeah, maybe it's that cold.