Why you shouldn’t call Celeste Barber an influencer
She has millions of Instagram followers and raised more than $52 million for bushfire victims but Celeste Barber completely rejects the title “influencer”. This is why.
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Celeste Barber rejects the title “influencer” despite having more than 6.9 million followers on Instagram and raising more than $52 million for bushfire victims.
“No I’m not an influencer, no freaking way. Not at all, I’m an actor-writer-comedian, not an influencer, anti influencer,” she says.
The Virgin Australia Melbourne Fashion Festival is hoping her catwalk debut tomorrow night will influence women to go shopping and support Australian fashion designers.
“I’m super excited, its all very fancy. It’s a very long runway so there’s enough room to get changed half way down and then half way back,” she says.
Barber, famous for her parodies of models and celebrities in fashion poses, is undecided about how she will tackle the runway tomorrow night.
“I’m not too sure, I’m waiting to see how the mood strikes and what type of music. I might boss it around and completely slay the runway,” she says.
“People just tell me to be myself which is nice, I’m just going to have fun with it because that’s what it’s about.”
The social media star has friends in high places on the international fashion stage, creating a series of tongue-in-cheek videos with Tom Ford in 2018.
“He’s very excited for me. When I was working with him he just wanted me to do whatever it was that I do because he thought that was the best thing in the world so that’s what I’m doing.”
Barber is also set to speak at the Australian Fashion Summit on Friday discussing Who Really Has Influence Today.
“I’m going to be talking a lot about inclusivity and how it’s nice to see different people in fashion now.”
“I live by ‘little less conversation, little more action’. I was kind of getting over everyone saying we should do this and we should do that. That’s why I like VAMFF, they’re doing it, they’re putting someone like me on the catwalk and including everyone and putting their money where their mouth is.”
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Barber has copped some flak over where the donated money is going and her role in the Bushfire Relief concert but she has vowed she wouldn’t change a thing.
“I would do that bushfire stuff over again and again, I would absolutely do the exact same thing over again. People have been so positive about it which I really appreciate and it’s so nice that so much money was raised,” she says.
“I would make out with Tom Ford for longer, that’s the only thing I would change about my career.”