Hannelore Knuts: “Co-parenting in action to keep all of us sane -and a little bit crazy”
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Why Models (against AIDS) has become Models for a Better World
To continue our prevention efforts towards young people, Designers against AIDS (DAA) decided to found ‘Models against AIDS’ in 2011. The organisation operated under the wings of DAA and informed girls and boys who dream of becoming a model about healthy living, including safe sex advice.
After the COVID pandemic started, we decided to widen our range of issues, as mental health, gender issues and Climate Action have become more important than ever before, so we joined the project Beauty for a Better World (beautyforabetterworld.org) and started Models for a Better World- as role models, models can certainly influence their followers to put small steps towards that better world.
As we want to reach out to young people worldwide, we’d like to get as many models and agencies as possible involved to lead to world to positive change. Spokesperson for Models for a Better World is Belgian top model Hannelore Knuts.
Welcome to join the group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/21918674417
We’re very happy to announce the new Ambassador for beauty without irony: top model, health consultant and all around nice human Hannelore Knuts!
Without further ado, we let her talk about why she has taken up this role:
The beauty of emotions
If we look at the art world, we can find beauty in the not so pretty things.
Solitude and melancholy are a common inspiration for many artists who then make things people consider to be beautiful.
A tree is allowed to lose its leaves and we still love it.
We clearly have some interest towards the dark side, but prefer to leave it outside in somebody else’s hands and preferably linked to something pretty or pristine like a painting or a song.
As if the beauty is holding your hand, so we manage to take it all in without too much discomfort.
As within, so without.
We can not ignore the fact that “bad” emotions exists.
Why do we believe we have to fix what’s wrong, or worse, push it away?
Why do we spend so much time and money ignoring discomfort?
Has this strategy proven its worth so far?
Looking at the state of the world I do not need to be an expert to realize that we are failing.
Therefore I would like to try a different approach: I would like to invite us all to hold hands in beauty and walk each other through, not around, those so called difficult emotions.
There’s lots of beauty to be found.
Simple, easy, honest beauty.
And when we know that ‘the bad’ is a part that’s present in all of us, we allow ourselves to bathe in beauty.
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Giel Domen
Photo: Domen & Van de Velde
Model: Hannelore Knuts
Styling: Pablo Patane
Make-up: Liselotte van Saarloos
Hair: Joeri Rouffa
Giel Domen: “Where dreams are allowed, where fantasies exist, that’s the most perfect beauty.”
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Liselotte van Saarloos
Liselotte van Saarloos: “Feel free to play, dream, create without boundary…unapologetically. That is pure beauty to me.”
Photo: Domen & Van de Velde
Model: Hannelore Knuts
Styling: Pablo Patane
Hair: Joeri Rouffa
Make-up: Liselotte van Saarloos
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