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Title: Transformations: Lea T. - a peak inside the world of a transgender model
Post by: Butterfly on March 24, 2011, 04:15:51 PM
Transformations: Lea T. - a peak inside the world of a transgender model
By Melinda Harris - SDGLN Social Contributor
March 24th, 2011


http://sdgln.com/social/2011/03/22/transformations-inside-world-transgender-model-lea-t (http://sdgln.com/social/2011/03/22/transformations-inside-world-transgender-model-lea-t)


Ahh ... Fashion Week! It's been Spring Fashion Week all over the world recently, and one's imagination might invoke scenes of models wearing blank (or even angry) expressions, strutting down the runways clad in floaty dresses or perhaps skin-tight black leather, ghoulish makeup and shockingly-low BMIs, cameras flashing incessantly and music thumping at deafening decibel levels.

All of the fashion world's glitterati are there – Karl Lagerfeld with his trademark white hair and dark sunglasses, as well as American Vogue's Editor-In-Chief Anna Wintour, whose persona was the inspiration for Meryl Streep's role as the tyrannical boss Miranda Priestly in the movie, "The Devil Wears Prada."