{"id":45125,"date":"2022-10-06T17:29:51","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T16:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ket.brussels\/?p=45125"},"modified":"2022-10-06T17:29:53","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T16:29:53","slug":"lets-meet-lassyri-in-monochrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ket.brussels\/en\/2022\/10\/06\/lets-meet-lassyri-in-monochrome\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s meet Lassyri in monochrome"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Lassyri is a genderfluid content creator on Youtube<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>. Next to queer topics, the influencer likes to share comedy, fashion or music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We met with Lassyri to discuss what\u2019s new for them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tell us a bit about yourself. What has been your journey?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, if you live in Brussels then you\u2019ve probably seen an off-white haired black person in colorful stylish genderfluid outfits pass by. Now you can finally put a name on that individual and they are called LASSYRI. I think that a lot of people up to now don\u2019t really know what I do cause I\u2019ve been a bit everywhere doing a bit of everything but not long enough for anyone to properly capture the full picture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m originally from Congo but I\u2019ve been coming back and forth from Nigeria, The Netherlands, and Canada to Belgium from I was 7 till the age of 18, when I decided to live here in Brussels to study film. In Canada, I started an interesting little YouTube career where I reached the milestone of being in the top 20 Comedic YouTubers for a whole week. So I figured why not study film!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I did that for 2 years and a half until I realized that I wanted to be a lot more in front of the screen instead of behind. I started signing up as an extra for different types of films and tv shows until I got invited by a casting agency which was where I started building up the status of \u2018Actor\u2019. I haven\u2019t done any major roles, only very small ones in Flemish series like De Buurtpolitie, Thuis, Ghost Rockers, but mainly focused on commercials that were always easy fun money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because photography and film kinda go hand in hand I ended up starting an amateur event photographer career for an organization called Ethno Tendance which organized all kinds of workshops and events around ethnic topics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s where I also evolved from amateur photographer to the well-deserved title of professional photographer when I went from fashion week photographer, to their Head Of Photography.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I learned so much during this period about phototherapy and fashion. It was there that my love for fashion started to grow. I was exposed to so much diversity there but I still felt like something was visually missing me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When it came to fashion photography and the brands I was seeing collaborating with influencers, I couldn\u2019t see any of the models with whom I could relate or see myself in. That\u2019s when in 2018 my visual perception changed and the birth of my genderfluid fashion started. I stopped taking pictures of other people and turned the lens towards myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I started showcasing my fashion style in my signature colorful minimal monochrome esthetic through Instagram. Next, I wanted to see someone like me in those Instagram influencer collaboration posts because product campaigns\/ads seemed to be lacking diversity in my opinion, so I started contacting different brands that I wanted to collaborate with. By then I had created my visual formula when it came to creating collaborative content. I already had a clear understanding of what my visual style was, and what I would do is I would take every brand that I would work with into my visual world using the brand\u2019s colors which is why I think made my influencer content stand out from others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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