Superstar actor and model Angelica Ross has been featured in the latest ad campaign from luxury brand Louis Vuitton.

Louis Vuitton | Pre-Fall 2020 pic.twitter.com/6j2xcQitGb

— Angelica Ross (@angelicaross) January 22, 2020

The Pose star shared photos of the 70s-inspired campaign to her Instagram and Twitter pages, even highlighting that she asked the brand if she could wear her natural hair during the shoot.

I asked @LouisVuitton if I could rock my natural hair in an Afro and they came back with an enthusiastic YES ????✊???? RBF on ???? pic.twitter.com/sbOpPkTDkT

— Angelica Ross (@angelicaross) January 22, 2020

The campaign consists of a series of old-style movie posters featuring several notable celebrities such as Jaden Smith, Robyn, Sophie Turner, Emma Roberts, Laura Harrier and Chloë Grace Moretz.

Ross, who also serves as CEO of TransTech Social Enterprises, is part of a new wave of transgender models breaking barriers in the notoriously closed-off fashion industry.

In an interview with Out Magazine last year, Louis Vuitton fashion house creative director Nicolas Ghesquière said he wanted to cast as many transgender models in their campaigns as possible.

“If I had more time, I would do more and more. Maybe in the future I will. But the way that I do it is with the respect, the attraction and the inspiration to showcase people like Sophie, Krow, or others I work with who express this way of being. They’re people I want to stand by,” he said.

The ad campaign was shot by photographer Collier Schorr, and in a statement, the fashion house said: "Fashion is a novel and the Pre-Fall 2020 collection embarks on a narrative journey where the garments tell their own tales.”

In an interview with Vogue, Ghesquière explained the inspiration behind the campaign.

“William Peter Blatty, who wrote The Exorcist, gave us the rights to print the cover of the book [on pieces in the collection]. It started there. It’s such a great symbol for me to use a fiction and incorporate it into an outfit. I thought, what’s the reverse? To use the fiction as the illustration of the fashion. It’s a kind of a mirror effect in this action of representing them all in these different characters,” he said.

On Twitter, fellow Pose co-star Indya Moore shared the photos and said they were excited to see the new gear in stores.

"Feast your eyes: Legendary Casting of Dark skin black trans women talent by @LouisVuitton x Nicolas G. @AngelicaRoss Slays In High Fashion & High Afro giving us what we literally have been looking for !! I cannot wait to see this in stores!!!!!!!!" Moore wrote.

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