Riccardo Tisci uses transsexual model for Givenchy
Daily News | Emily O'Brien | May 7, 2010

http://www.myfashionlife.com/archives/2010/05/07/riccardo-tisci-uses-transsexual-model-for-givenchy/

Riccardo Tisci loves a bit of androgony and male-female mix as much as the next Givenchy fan, but he'll be blurring the lines between gender a little further next season by using a transsexual model in Givenchy's AW10 ad campaign.

But Lea T – a Brazilian with a bonestructure to die for, formerly known as Leo – isn't any old transsexual, she's a long-time friend and personal assistant of the designer and, coincidently, a former fit model for his own line.

Oh. Givenchy. I once liked its hosiery ads. If they hire me as a model, I will do it free.

http://i771.photobucket.com/albums/xx358/barbie_korea21/Hosiery%20models/givenchy8_barbie.jpg

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Givenchy Puts Transsexual Model In Fall Ad Campaign (PHOTOS)

First Posted: 05- 7-10 08:01 AM   |   Updated: 05- 7-10 08:37 AM

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/07/givenchy-puts-transsexual_n_567428.html

Givenchy's Riccardo Tisci has cast a transsexual model in the fashion house's fall-winter ad campaign, WWD reports. Lea T., formerly known as Leo, is also Tisci's longtime personal assistant and former fit model.

Tisci said, "She's always been very feminine: superfragile, very aristocratic." He added that including a transgendered person in his campaign illustrates the "masculine-feminine dichotomy" he is now known for.

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Riccardo Tisci Cast His Transgender Assistant for Givenchy's Fall Ads

    * 5/7/10 at 11:05 AM

http://nymag.com/daily/fashion/2010/05/riccardo_tisci_cast_his_transg.html

Fashion is so often criticized for its non-inclusive nature, especially when it comes to models. They are so often one type: white and impossibly skinny. Though plus-size and non-white models may be getting more exposure lately, Givenchy designer Riccardo Tisci calls attention to another group of society oft overlooked by fashion with his fall campaign, in which he cast his longtime transgender personal assistant Lea T. Lea T. used to be "Leo" and is transitioning careers into veterinary medicine.

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by WWD Staff

Posted Friday May 7, 2010

http://www.wwd.com/media-news/fashion-memopad/tiscis-trans-europe-express-fashionair-paused-3063927

TRANS EUROPE EXPRESS: Givenchy designer Riccardo Tisci has taken the whole idea of "coed fashion shoot" to another level: The designer is using a transexual among the cast for the house's fall-winter ad campaign, and it's someone he knows well: his longtime personal assistant and, interestingly enough, former fit model for his own line. Lea T., a Brazilian with delicate features previously known as Leo, appears alongside an ethnically diverse range of faces in the spots, slated to break in the July issue of L'Uomo Vogue. "She's always been very feminine: superfragile, very aristocratic," Tisci enthused of the former Mr. T. "She's part of the family," he said, noting that Lea is transitioning into a new career, veterinary medicine,

Nah - that's nothing.

Back in the mid 1970's when Tula (aka Caroline Cossey) was modeling and appearing in James Bond films THAT was real Transsexual modeling. It's a very old image - but even today she looks stunning. For about a year just about every male in London oggled and lusted after her as her posters were all over the tube trains. Inevitably, at the time few knew the truth - and to those of us who did she was a real beacon on hope!

 10 May 2010 at 11:25 Givenchy by Riccardo Tisci
Givenchy's surprising choice of model!

http://www.graziadaily.co.uk/fashion/archive/2010/05/10/givenchys-surprising-choice-of-model.htm

Fashwan's most very elegant and romantic label, Givenchy by Riccardo Tisci's new ads are not only GWORGASS with a capital G, but involve an intiguing twistette, modelwise. Apparently, along with models Mariacarla Boscono, Joan Smalls, Ming Xi, Catherine McNeil, and Malgosia Bela, Mr Tisci has cast his close friend, PA and sometime fit model Lea T.

Oh yes, and Lea used to be a Leo (!) Can you tell which one it is?* We think she looks loverly AND might we add, indistinguishable from the other girlies, so gamine and young and twiggish they are, in the ads shot by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott