Photos: 'Imperfect' models in Italy redefine beauty
Models pose during a photo shoot for "L'Imperfetta (The Imperfect) model agency" in Rome, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023. L'Imperfetta is a model agency that represents 'extraordinarily imperfect' women and men of all sizes, heights, ages, genders, backgrounds, and disabilities, people who are difficult to classify into the industry's pre-established standards of beauty. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
A model poses during a photo shoot for "L'Imperfetta (The Imperfect) model agency" in Rome, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023. L'Imperfetta is a model agency that represents 'extraordinarily imperfect' women and men of all sizes, heights, ages, genders, backgrounds, and disabilities, people who are difficult to classify into the industry's pre-established standards of beauty. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
Models pose during a photo shoot for "L'Imperfetta (The Imperfect) model agency" in Rome, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023. L'Imperfetta is a model agency that represents 'extraordinarily imperfect' women and men of all sizes, heights, ages, genders, backgrounds, and disabilities, people who are difficult to classify into the industry's pre-established standards of beauty. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
Claudia La Rosa poses during a photo shoot for "L'Imperfetta (The Imperfect) model agency" in Rome, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023. Claudia La Rosa who has a Nevus of Ota is one of the models featured by L'Imperfetta, a model agency that represents 'extraordinarily imperfect' women and men of all sizes, heights, ages, genders, backgrounds, and disabilities, people who are difficult to classify into the industry's pre-established standards of beauty. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
Carlotta Giancane, left, poses with models at the end of a photo shoot for "L'imperfetta" (The Imperfect) model agency in Rome, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023. Giancane is the founder of L'Imperfetta, a model agency that represents 'extraordinarily imperfect' women and men of all sizes, heights, ages, genders, backgrounds, and disabilities, people who are difficult to classify into the industry's pre-established standards of beauty. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
Claudia La Rosa poses during a photo shoot for "L'Imperfetta (The Imperfect) model agency" in Rome, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023. Claudia La Rosa who has a Nevus of Ota is one of the models featured by L'Imperfetta, a model agency that represents 'extraordinarily imperfect' women and men of all sizes, heights, ages, genders, backgrounds, and disabilities, people who are difficult to classify into the industry's pre-established standards of beauty. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
Models pose during a photo shoot for "L'Imperfetta (The Imperfect) model agency" in Rome, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023. L'Imperfetta is a model agency that represents 'extraordinarily imperfect' women and men of all sizes, heights, ages, genders, backgrounds, and disabilities, people who are difficult to classify into the industry's pre-established standards of beauty. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
Lucia Della Ratta, poses during a photo shoot for "L'Imperfetta (The Imperfect) model agency" in Rome, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023. Lucia has hidden her albinism for most of her life, coloring her pale hair darker shades and using tanning lotions on her skin, said during an interview with the Associated Press "I felt beautiful for the first time. L'Imperfetta is a model agency that represents 'extraordinarily imperfect' women and men of all sizes, heights, ages, genders, backgrounds, and disabilities, people who are difficult to classify into the industry's pre-established standards of beauty. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
Models pose during a photo shoot for "L'Imperfetta (The Imperfect) model agency" in Rome, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023. L'Imperfetta is a model agency that represents 'extraordinarily imperfect' women and men of all sizes, heights, ages, genders, backgrounds, and disabilities, people who are difficult to classify into the industry's pre-established standards of beauty. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
Lucia Della Ratta gets makeup during a photo shoot for "L'Imperfetta (The Imperfect) model agency" in Rome, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023. Lucia has hidden her albinism for most of her life, coloring her pale hair darker shades and using tanning lotions on her skin, said during an interview with the Associated Press "I felt beautiful for the first time. L'Imperfetta is a model agency that represents 'extraordinarily imperfect' women and men of all sizes, heights, ages, genders, backgrounds, and disabilities, people who are difficult to classify into the industry's pre-established standards of beauty. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
Desiree D'Angelo sits during a pause of a photo shoot for "L'Imperfetta" (The Imperfect) model agency in Rome, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023. Desiree, who has had alopecia since she was ten, during an interview with the Associated Press said: "I like my body, I like my peculiarity, in the end, I have accepted it, I felt beautiful for the first time" L'Imperfetta is a model agency that represents 'extraordinarily imperfect' women and men of all sizes, heights, ages, genders, backgrounds, and disabilities, people who are difficult to classify into the industry's pre-established standards of beauty. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
Lucia Della Ratta gets makeup during a photoshoot for the "L'Imperfetta (The Imperfect) model agency" in Rome, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023. Lucia has hidden her albinism for most of her life, coloring her pale hair darker shades and using tanning lotions on her skin, said during an interview with the Associated Press "I felt beautiful for the first time. L'Imperfetta is a model agency that represents 'extraordinarily imperfect' women and men of all sizes, heights, ages, genders, backgrounds, and disabilities, people who are difficult to classify into the industry's pre-established standards of beauty. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
Photos of models are attached on a wall during a photo shoot for "L'Imperfetta (The Imperfect) model agency" in Rome, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023. L'Imperfetta is a model agency that represents 'extraordinarily imperfect' women and men of all sizes, heights, ages, genders, backgrounds, and disabilities, people who are difficult to classify into the industry's pre-established standards of beauty. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
Sonia Sparta gets makeup during a photo shoot for the "L'imperfetta (imperfect) model agency" in Rome, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023. Sonia, who has a rare skin disorder called hyperpigmentation that has caused her to have dark spots on her face and body is one of the models for L'Imperfetta (The Imperfect) model agency that represents 'extraordinarily imperfect' women and men of all sizes, heights, ages, genders, backgrounds, and disabilities, people who are difficult to classify into the industry's pre-established standards of beauty. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
Sonia Sparta poses during a photo shoot for "L'imperfetta (The Imperfect) model agency" in Rome, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023. Sonia, who has a rare skin disorder called hyperpigmentation, which produces dark spots on her face and body, is one of the models for L'Imperfetta (The Imperfect) model agency that represents 'extraordinarily imperfect' women and men of all sizes, heights, ages, genders, backgrounds, and disabilities, people who are difficult to classify into the industry's pre-established standards of beauty. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
Carlotta Giancane, center, poses with models at the end of a photo shoot for "L'imperfetta (The Imperfect) model agency" in Rome, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023. Giancane is the founder of L'Imperfetta, a model agency that represents 'extraordinarily imperfect' women and men of all sizes, heights, ages, genders, backgrounds, and disabilities, people who are difficult to classify into the industry's pre-established standards of beauty. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
Sonia Sparta stands during a photo shoot for "L'imperfetta (The Imperfect) model agency" in Rome, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023. Sonia, who has a rare skin disorder called hyperpigmentation, which produces dark spots on her face and body, is one of the models for L'Imperfetta (The imperfect) model agency that represents 'extraordinarily imperfect' women and men of all sizes, heights, ages, genders, backgrounds, and disabilities, people who are difficult to classify into the industry's pre-established standards of beauty. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
The Imperfetta (Imperfect) modeling agency has a casting book full of models of all sizes and ages, spanning the gender spectrum, some with disabilities or medical conditions like alopecia or vitiligo, visible scarring or who have lost limbs.