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Title: Meet the models breaking the mould
Post by: Shana A on March 03, 2012, 09:30:39 AM
Post by: Shana A on March 03, 2012, 09:30:39 AM
Meet the models breaking the mould
Bring on the wrinkles... and the spare tyre and the brains, too. Because you don't have to be a silly, skinny teenager to make it in modelling these days
guardian.co.uk, Friday 2 March 2012 18.01 EST
http://www.guardian.co.uk/fashion/2012/mar/02/models-breaking-mould (http://www.guardian.co.uk/fashion/2012/mar/02/models-breaking-mould)
The male/female model: Andrej Pejic
• Interview by Simon Hattenstone
At the age of 14, Andrej Pejic liberated himself. For years, he had tried to be a conventional boy – he'd stopped playing with Barbies, he'd started to wear baggy clothes and caps, he'd even had a go at Aussie rules football. But it just didn't seem right, and the more laddish he tried to be, the more the other boys called him gay or a girl.
So he went with his instincts. "Liberation came in a bottle of bleach," he laughs. Out went the sandy-brown hair, in came the blond bombshell. To some he was a ridiculously beautiful girl, to others he was an even more ridiculously beautiful boy. He was happy to occupy an androgynous halfway house that defied definition.
Bring on the wrinkles... and the spare tyre and the brains, too. Because you don't have to be a silly, skinny teenager to make it in modelling these days
guardian.co.uk, Friday 2 March 2012 18.01 EST
http://www.guardian.co.uk/fashion/2012/mar/02/models-breaking-mould (http://www.guardian.co.uk/fashion/2012/mar/02/models-breaking-mould)
The male/female model: Andrej Pejic
• Interview by Simon Hattenstone
At the age of 14, Andrej Pejic liberated himself. For years, he had tried to be a conventional boy – he'd stopped playing with Barbies, he'd started to wear baggy clothes and caps, he'd even had a go at Aussie rules football. But it just didn't seem right, and the more laddish he tried to be, the more the other boys called him gay or a girl.
So he went with his instincts. "Liberation came in a bottle of bleach," he laughs. Out went the sandy-brown hair, in came the blond bombshell. To some he was a ridiculously beautiful girl, to others he was an even more ridiculously beautiful boy. He was happy to occupy an androgynous halfway house that defied definition.