2011-10-26 Fashion model straddles gender divide✍

One of the most in-demand models of women’s clothing isn’t a woman.

女裝秀最炙手可熱的模特不是位女性。

“Gender doesn’t make me who I am,” Bosnia-born and Australia-raised Andrej Pejic told CityNews during Toronto's Fashion Week.

"性別並不會定義我是誰"波斯尼亞出生澳洲長大的Andrej Pejic在多倫多時裝周接受CityNews的採訪說到。

“I think there’s always been male and female, and there’s always been in-between. It’s just that the in-between doesn’t have a place.

"我一直活在兩性之間,而且中性也一直都存在著。只是在中間的人缺少了立足之地。"

“If gender wasn’t so important, if it didn’t affect the way people treated you, or the opportunities you have in life, like nationality didn’t or anything else, it wouldn’t be such a big deal, that in-between,” he said.

"如果性別沒那麼重要,沒影響人們對待你的方式。或者你把握生活中出現的機會,像國籍沒不代表什麼,這就不該是個大問題。這就是in-between(兩者之間)。他說

New York Magazine described Pejic as the “prettiest boy in the world.” The model has been booked for some of the most prestigious gigs in the fashion industry, posing for French Vogue and walking the catwalk for fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier in both the men’s and women’s collections. He also strutted his stuff for the Canadian label Pink Tartan during Toronto’s Fashion Week last week.

紐約雜誌讚譽Pejic為"上最美的男孩"。成為時尚界爭相邀請的對象,法國版Vogue,設計師Jean Paul Gaultier男女時裝秀。在上周的多倫多時裝週裡,他為加拿大品牌Pink Tartan走秀。

Dressing in women’s or men’s clothes doesn’t matter to Pejic.

Pejic並不在乎穿著男裝或女裝

“For me, I don’t put on costumes. However, if I were extremely muscled and hairy, I probably wouldn’t feel very comfortable with myself. I’m quite lucky that how I feel inside pretty much matches what I look like. There are a lot of people who don’t get that luxury,” he said.

 

"我真的這麼覺得,我並不是在演戲。而且,如果我的外表是陽剛、毛髮濃密,我應該會受不了。很幸運我的外表符合我心中對美的定義。這是很多人希望卻沒能如願的。"他說

“One of the flaws of the society is we like to define someone on their race or on their gender or on their appearance — all things that really aren’t the biggest part of a person’s whole being.

這個社會有個很大缺陷就是,我們喜歡用他人的種族、性別或外貌來定義對方。-這些都只是人的一部分而不是全部。

“I don’t get offended by being called ‘her.’ I don’t get offended by being called ‘him.’ But usually, for consistency, they use ‘he.’”

用"她"或"他"來稱呼我,我都不覺得被冒犯。但為了一致性,他們通常都用"他"。

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