Guys in dresses and girls in tuxedos
By Deblina Chakravorty, TNN | Dec 18, 2012, 12.00 AM IST
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/fashion/trends/Guys-in-dresses-and-girls-in-tuxedos/articleshow/17651340.cmsIt's a brave world of fashion where men are modelling for womenswear and vice versa.
The latest trends to capture the attention of the fashion industry worldwide are square jaws and boyish builds. It's the women who are wearing the pants on global runways. In a gender-bender coup of sorts, Dutch model Saskia de Brauw (31), has been chosen as the new face of a Parisian fashion major's latest collection of menswear. In a series of black and white images, the female model looks like a pre-pubescent pageboy.
But, Saskia is not the first girl to model for a menswear line. Before her, 35-year-old Casey Legler from New York was signed on by a modelling agency as a 'male' model. Strong jawbones, lanky builds, cropped hairstyles and six-feet-plus heights seem to work in favour of these women who seemed to have embraced their new roles with classy nonchalance.
