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With Fashion Week getting under way in New York, model Andrej Pejic is the man - or women - of the hour.
That's because The Bosnian-born 20-year-old is the only top-tier fashion model who can walk down the runway as either a man or a woman.
Gender-bending model a runway sensation - Celebrity Circuit - CBS News
Seeded on Sun Feb 12, 2012 9:53 PM EST
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When I first saw the headline, I thought, "Well, they've been trying to make female models look like men for decades. Now they can bypass women completely." Then I took a look at Andrj. He looks anorexic too, so even men can't be as lacking in womanly curves as they want. Here's a page full of his photos.
His androgynous beauty has turned him into a trendsetter in an industry that's always seeking to push the envelope.
Pejic graced the covers of 14 magazines last year alone, including an ad campaign for a Dutch push-up bra. In 2011, he was the face for a fashion line by designer Marc Jacobs. He has walked the runways for heavyweight designers, including John Galliano and Jean Paul Gaultier.
French designer Gaultier was so enamored with Pejic that he used his gender-bending look as a source of inspiration for his 2011 men's and women's wear shows, both of which Pejic modeled in.
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#1 - Sun Feb 12, 2012 9:59 PM ESTHad I not seen the full-monty image, I would have never believed this dude was a dude! He seems to have a little something for everybody. Well...maybe not little...
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#2 - Sun Feb 12, 2012 10:30 PM ESTWithout the make-up (and the clothes, of course) he looks like a man. With the make-up and clothes, he usually looks like a woman, but... there's still that male look that peeks through somewhat.
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#3 - Mon Feb 13, 2012 12:30 AM ESTAhhh, come on. Its not a big deal, or at least no worse than the fashion industries numerous issues with the worsening standards of beauty girls are holding themselves to everyday. He's @!$%#ing beautiful, you've got to admit it. There are a lot of issues swimming about saying that he's the start of the collpased of female modelling and that the look they've pushed for, skinny, flat chested and tall, has finally gone too far and they're just going directly to men now but that is the result of people allowing that standard to continue to pass as the ultimate goal for women to achieve in beauty.
Until we stop and rethink female beauty, in all our curves and flaws and naturalness, then I see nothing wrong with allowing a very beautiful man do what female models do. He meets the standards we as a society have created for "feminine" perfection therefore more power to him
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#4 - Mon Feb 13, 2012 11:53 AM ESTWe haven't set those standards. They've been imposed upon us by the beauty and fashion industry which profits enormously for setting unrealistic standards for women.
For instance, no woman can look like the models in women's magazines, not even the models featured. They're all airbrushed. When women try to achieve this airbrushed standard, they have to spend major dollars on makeup, skin treatments, etc.
While the corporations grow rich off of this duplicity, women end up anorexic, fighting body dysmorphia, etc.
The fashion industry is a major player in this harm to women. They don't want to make clothes for real women's bodies. They want to force women to change their bodies to wear their clothes. There have been models who've died right on the catwalks because they've starved themselves in order to get the job.
Now we have an added layer: we're not only supposed to stop having femnine curves, etc to make them rich, we're now supposed to emulate men posturing as women -- emaciated men at that. If the clothes are made so as to fit a male body, then they need to sell them to men to wear.
Women need to stop being so passive about the harm all of this does. We have the right to have our natural bodies and beauty celebrated instead of condemned.
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Women need to stop being so passive about the harm all of this does. We have the right to have our natural bodies and beauty celebrated instead of condemned.
I certainly agree however I'm less able to view women as a whole as the victim and not in many cases the enabler for this kind of thing to happen and be acceptable. You can make the argument that we're all brainwashed to view what the fashion industy, and only the fashion industry, views as beautiful. However the vast majority of western women, at least the adults, not only condone but encourage the fashion industries through our refusal to buy anything but high street, fad diets and the ever more difficult task to attempt to sculpt our bodies to this ridiculous standard set for us.
Until we all grow up and start being comfrotable with ourselves and feed and cloth our bodies to be healthy and not fashionable or unrealistically thin than this will continue to be what the world perceives as the target for "beauty" and with each generation this view will become more and more solidified and even harder to change.
Im probably being far too harsh on my own sex here, Im just as guilty of this too, but we, women, are the ones who fund this industry and approve of its machinations. Until we demand a new standard, this will be the status quo and I dont think we have the right to criticise the use of men such as this model when we've done nothing but encourage the look from the inception of the "cat-walk" .
The fact is, that yes, there are women that live their lives in awful torment trying to become this ridiculous caricature of what a woman should be, and they should be helped. But in most cases, we simply feed the machine that restricts us.
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