Voting is open following the announcement of the second Modelled by Role Models campaign finalists. After launching the first edition of the digital campaign in 2015 to celebrate inspirational women around the world, Panache Lingerie invited customers to nominate their own role models to feature as part of the 2016 Modelled by Role Models campaign launching in September.
Panache have received thousands of nominations and selected 15 extraordinary women to go through the next stage. Voting finishes on April 29th 2016 and the winners will receive a year’s supply of Panache lingerie, a starring role in the Modelled by Role Models photo shoot in London and a set of prints of the best images taken for the campaign.
Click to learn about the 15 finalists:
- Sarah Williams – Author, blogger specializing in sharing voices of inspiring women, motivational speaker and marathon runner.
- Ewa Zakrzewska – Plus size model and activist who campaigns for body confidence amongst her peers.
- Charlie Porter – Born with Spina Bifida, Charlie defies prognosis and made a full recovery, pushing her aim to lead a normal life, as well setting up a charity for children with disabilities.
- Lauren Morton – Over the past two years she’s rowed the Atlantic twice, run seven marathons in seven different countries in seven days, and spent six weeks in a South American desert island.
- Emily Findlay – Neuroblastoma cancer survivor who has raised hundreds of thousands of pounds in Scotland for cancer research.
- Jayne Hurditch – Mum of two to severely disabled daughter Molly as well as Amy who sadly passed away from meningococcal meningitis aged 8. In Amy’s memory, Jayne and her family set up Amy’s House a charity for children with disabilities.
- Katarzyna Nicewicz – 25-year-old Katarzyna has been working with homeless people in Poland’s capital Warsaw for a number of years, and at the age of 21 she founded the Polish homeless charity Daj herbatę (share a tea).
- Anja Loven – A Danish aid worker who left her job in retail in 2011 to spend three months as a relief worker in Africa. In 2013 Anja sold everything she owned in Denmark to move to Nigeria and set up the African Children’s Aid Education and Development Foundation.
- Katarzyna Kulpa – Katarzyna was Poland’s first lingerie blogger, winning Blogger of the Year award in 2009.
- Elly Mayday – Canadian plus size model who promotes body positivity. Elly is a survivor of ovarian cancer.
- Eliza Rebeiro – Eliza is an anti-knife and gang crime campaigner who founded the Lives Not Knives organization when she was just 14.
- Nicola Griffin – Nicky became a model just three years ago at the age of 53, and now represents brands that sell hair products and swimwear aimed at the more mature woman.
- Vashti Seth – Bristol‐based mum of two Vashti Seth was left £2,000 and with this she set up the charity Deki in 2008, after she was inspired by a Tibetan refugee called Deki Dolkha.
- Sylwia Blach – Sylwia is a blogger, author and software programmer, and an ambassador for disabled people in Poland.
- Courtney Bescoby – Volunteer and animal fosterer who volunteered in Zanzibar. Courtney found the work so rewarding that it helped her battle with depression.
