Bold Crossings of the Gender Line

[Butterfly]

Bold Crossings of the Gender Line
The New York Times
By WILLIAM VAN METER
Published: December 8, 2010


http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/09/fashion/09TRANS.html 🔗 Link: nytimes.com/2010/12/09/fashion/09TRANS.html


IT'S certainly a statement on our times that, in the same month, James Franco graces the covers of GQ and Candy. In GQ, he appears in a moody head shot. In Candy, a style magazine dedicated to what it calls the "transversal" — that is, transsexuality, transvestism, cross-dressing, androgyny and any combination thereof — Mr. Franco, shot by Terry Richardson, vamps in trowel-applied makeup, heavy jewelry and a woman's dominatrix-style power suit.

Candy, it turns out, is but one of the more visible bits of evidence that 2010 will be remembered as the year of the transsexual. Yes, Mr. Franco is just dressing up and doesn't feel he was born the wrong sex. But it is a grand gesture of solidarity with gender nonconformists and certainly hasn't affected attendance at "127 Hours."

[tatiana]

You beat me to posting it. lol.

I found the pictures of Lea T interesting:
http://forums.thefashionspot.com/f52/lea-t-102725.html 🔗 Link: forums.thefashionspot.com/f52/lea-t-102725.html

Guessing many of her runway shots & magazine shots are heavily photoshopped.