Alternative model

Alternative models are often niche-specific, with a personal style that represents subcultures like goth, steampunk, and fetishism.

An alternative model may, for example, be tattooed, pierced, or have other body modifications, have distinctively subcultural hair such as being shaved, dyed a distinctively unnatural color, or styled into a mohawk or dreadlocks.

Alternative modeling can be clothed or unclothed.

Alternative modeling was given substantial mainstream media coverage in the 2000s and 2010s, partly through the creation and popularization of community-based alternative modeling paysites, like GodsGirls and SuicideGirls.

Alternative models are often employed to promote niche products, either in shops or online, particular subcultural clothing shops and websites.