LOOKIN' LIKE I CAUGHT A SLICK

Bald headed. Gap toothed. Rebellious beyond repair. Meet Slick Woods – the model grabbing the world by its balls and making it swing in whichever direction she wishes. She has etched out her own lane with her strikingly unique features and is speeding through it, living her best life.

Long gone are the days when models were mere Barbie dolls, pulled by the strings of designers, up and down the catwalk never to be seen until the following season. Today they have a voice and purpose because they refuse to be in the shadows. Models all over the world are being activating and pioneers in a movement that they wouldn’t have dared to participate in before. Now they’re using their platform to speak the fuck up for what they believe in and are doing so unapologetically.

Simone Thompson AKA Slick Woods is notorious for her uncensored attitude and comfortability in her own skin. Afraid to fuck up her cheques because her outgoing and overtly rebellious and controversial persona? Not Slick. She’s ready to inflict her bold opinions and unapologetic “wokeness” on the world. She’s that bitch that not anyone can sit with.

Slicks entrance into the world of modelling isn’t like most. Coming from a trap house Minneapolis, the 21-year old was addicted drugs. By the tender age of 4, her mother was incarcerated for manslaughter and is said to be due for release later on this year. “You going to be just like your mother.” If Slick had a pound for every time she’d heard this line, she’d be richer that she is now and for a brief moment before her saving grace, Slick was heading that way. She found herself behind bars for numerous credit card scams and as a result of her criminal doings, she has not been able to see her mum for over three years.

Model, Ash Stymest – her knight in shining armour – was Slick’s entry into the fashion world. He discovered her at a bus stop and was taken aback by her ever so striking features. It wasn’t long before she was signed to a modelling agency. Since then her almost scary yet hypnotic looks have earned her spots on the runways of Miu Miu, Yeezy, Fendi and Calvin Klein.

In latest news, Slick has become a part of Rihanna’s Fenty Girl Gang alongside Duckie Thot, another model killing the fashion game with her dark and luminous skin. Fenty in itself has marked a tremendous milestone for black women as on its release, 40 shades were made available with a variety for black women. It doesn’t come as a surprise that Rihanna handpicked Slick to be a part of such an amazing and historical campaign where she represents a new figure of uncompromising femininity - a tempestuous concoction of sensual meets savage meets unorthodox.

Her salient looks aren’t the only contributing factor to her edge, it’s her absence of fucks to give, her naughty and playful attitude and it’s her resilience despite such a turbulent past that sets her aside from the masses. She’s kept her shit together and is now using her story and peculiarity to change the face of fashion. She’s tugging at norms and questioning and flipping them in their heads. She’s thrown a spanner in the works of what is ordinary and has built herself into a force to be reckoned with.

Here at Atypical we live for the distinct human. We cherish them for the difference and how they use this to play their part in an uncompromising world that tells us to be one way on a daily basis. Its figures like offer a fresh perspective on life. We celebrate Slick not just for her looks, but for her.

Long live Slick.