Interview MADELEINE OSTILE nominee Fashion Awards 2019 “NEW WAVE: Creatives”

Madeleine Østlie is a Casting Director and the head of AAMO Casting and Strong Worldwide; with AAMO being co-founded along with model-activist Adwoah Aboah, and Strong set up in New York with operations that extend to several cities worldwide. With a professional background that includes the forward-thinking platform Fashion East, Østlie–a BFC New Wave creative–speaks on the narratives of which we've come a long way from, in what she describes as a "whitewashed, westernized, aspirational view" of which has provoked the consumer's response to the fashion industry in requiring more diversified imaging and messaging.