{"id":88511,"date":"2016-10-04T13:38:18","date_gmt":"2016-10-04T17:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/?p=88511"},"modified":"2016-10-04T14:13:09","modified_gmt":"2016-10-04T18:13:09","slug":"balenciagas-inked-up-exclusive-manami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/balenciagas-inked-up-exclusive-manami\/","title":{"rendered":"Balenciaga&#8217;s Inked Up Exclusive, Manami"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>\n.centerimg {padding:4em 10em;}\n<\/style>\n<p>Whether it&#8217;s Vetements or his latest <a href='\/\/models.com\/client\/balenciaga'>Balenciaga<\/a> show, designer <a href='\/\/models.com\/people\/demna-gvasalia'>Demna Gvasalia<\/a> often questions the paradigm of convention. That attitude was made especially clear on the Spring\/Summer runway which again featured a mix of out of the ordinary faces. Amongst the distinctive models who walked one of the most talked about shows in Paris, the strikingly intense <a href='\/\/models.com\/models\/manami-kinoshita'>Manami Kinoshita<\/a> stood out, whose defiant stare, buzzed hair and inked up body was a conspicuous (and exclusive) reappearance. So just who is she? It was <a href='\/\/models.com\/people\/Lotta-Volkova'>Lotta Volkova<\/a>, who has been styling for and influencing Gvasalia since the early days of Vetement, that initially nominated Manami a seat at the exclusive table. Manami says of that break-through discovery, \u201cLotta found me though Instagram, and direct messaged me asking if I wanted to walk her show. I said yes without any doubts or questions. That was Vetements. They booked my flight and next thing I know I was on the plane.\u201d <\/p>\n<div class=\"centerimg\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.mdel.net\/oftheminute\/images\/2016\/10\/GettyImages-612339976.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1012\" height=\"1518\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-89458\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i.mdel.net\/oftheminute\/images\/2016\/10\/GettyImages-612339976.jpg 1012w, https:\/\/i.mdel.net\/oftheminute\/images\/2016\/10\/GettyImages-612339976-683x1024.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1012px) 100vw, 1012px\" \/><br \/>\n<small>Getty Images Estrop \/ Contributor<\/small>\n<\/div>\n<p>Before that, modeling was Manami&#8217;s ambition, \u201cI used to hate going to school and studying, and I never thought I could be like an office lady, for example [laughs]. I was wondering where to go with my life, then I remembered my junior high school teacher telling me I should go to modeling school. That\u2019s when I started actually wanting to do something with my life.\u201d Tatted beauties before Manami like Catherine McNeil have already proven ink can leave an indelible impression and though she\u2019s already an underground Lotta favorite, the Japanese model is well on her way to making a more mainstream debut, saying, \u201cI\u2019m excited about everything that can happen. I just want to have fun while I model, meet as many people as possible, and it will be nice if I could be someone who can inspire other people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wondering about the meanings behind all the markings Manami has? Check them out in the gallery above. <\/p>\n<p><!--pp-thumb-start--><!--PictPress found no dir \/2016\/10\/88511--><!--pp-thumb-end--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The meaning behind the tattoos of the Lotta Volkova favorite <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":443,"featured_media":89462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[21,10214,10503,10543,8705,10607,9992,10126],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88511"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/443"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88511"}],"version-history":[{"count":46,"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89447,"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88511\/revisions\/89447"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}