Andrej Pejic - Unisex Top Model

2012 ADEEN!

The ADEEN crew shows us how they maintain that "Saturday morning cartoon feeling" in this new visual conceptualized by Anais Larocca, one of the brains behind the Jay Z/Duracell commercial. This wild, mile-a-minute display of animated expression includes, a paint-gun fight, images of Dragonball Z and Pokemon, a fridge stocked full of candy, and a grinning Duran bathing in a Fruit Loop filled tub. Never one to hold back on the eye candy, ADEEN goes above and beyond to proclaim to the world - Just Have Fun.

ADEEN is a New York City based brand from 21 year old lower east side native Rembrandt Duran. His goal is to bring "fun" back into the world of fashion.

The brand thus far focusing mainly on accessories, most notably their signature snapback hats, will release its first soft goods this Spring, a peek of which can be seen in the video.

"Hopefully through the video we can give you, the viewer, either an introduction into the world of ADEEN, or a reminder and a look to where the brand is heading. There is plenty more to come and we will continue to do poppin things!" ~ Remy

Cast includes Andrej Pejic, Ricci Steez, Lafayette Bless, Eric Narvaez, Nunnie and Amanda Lynn Krieger. Directed by Anais LaRocca and Pablo Pelcan with music by Anamanaguchi.

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2012-11-17 Andrej Pejic: "Man bekommt eine dicke Haut"

Designer wie Jean Paul Gaultier lieben ihn, Pärchen machen ihm unmoralische Angebote. Andere nennen ihn einen „Außerirdischen“ und kritisieren, dass Designer Damenmode schneidern, die ihm passt – Model Andrej Pejic (21) lässt jedenfalls niemanden kalt.

In Ihrer Heimatstadt Melbourne haben Sie gerade beim Pferderennen mit Ihrem Hut für Aufregung gesorgt. Wie das?

Andrej Pejic: Es war ein bisschen lächerlich. Die Firma, die mich eingeladen hat, hatte die Idee, dass ich den Hut ehren sollte, den Prinzessin Beatrice zur Royal Wedding trug und den Philip Treacy designt hat. Ich sollte einen ähnlichen tragen, aber die Organisatoren haben davon gehört und hatten Angst, es würde Treacy verärgern...

Tragen Sie öffentlich immer Damenkleider?

Meistens. Manches ist eher maskuline Damenmode, manches eher feminin, mädchenhafte Sachen mag ich nicht sehr. (Lacht.) Ich mag es, zu mischen.

Wann haben Sie zum ersten Mal Damensachen getragen?

Das ist eine meiner ersten Erinnerungen. Ich war zwei oder drei und hab Sachen aus dem Schrank meiner Mutter geholt. Ich hatte schon sehr früh diese Crossgender-Gefühle. Als Kind spielte ich mit Barbies, war mit den Mädchen zusammen. Dann kam eine Zeit, wo ich damit aufgehört habe. Die Gesellschaft erklärt dir, es ist nicht mehr süß, du bist kein Kind mehr, du musst dich entsprechend deines Geschlechts verhalten. Also habe ich versucht, mehr wie ein Bub zu sein. Aber es ist ziemlich schief gegangen. Also habe ich wieder angefangen.

Ist das für Sie ein Anliegen – dass man aufhört, Kindern zu sagen, wie sie sich einer Rolle entsprechend zu verhalten haben?

Es wäre schön. Frauen machen heute die gleichen Dinge wie Männer. Deshalb finde ich, dass es auch in anderen Dingen mehr Gleichberechtigung geben sollte, auch in der Mode. Und Eltern sollten ihre Kinder sich entwickeln lassen. Ich glaube nicht, dass man sie formen muss. Wenn ein Bub gern Kleider trägt, fürchten die Leute, dass er schwul oder wie ein Mädchen wird und verbieten es. Aber das funktioniert so nicht, im Grunde sind all diese Dinge schon vor der Geburt angelegt. Es ist nichts, das man ändern kann. Die Leute sollten sich weniger Sorgen machen.

Ihre ersten Jahre haben Sie zudem im Krieg verbracht. Haben Sie Erinnerungen daran?

Ich wurde zwei Monate vor dem Krieg in Bosnien geboren, dann sind wir nach Serbien gezogen. Ich bin in einem Flüchtlingscamp aufgewachsen und erinnere mich an die Nato-Bomben. Es war nicht gerade eine Kindheit voller materieller Dinge, aber eine glückliche. Ich habe keine traumatischen Erfahrungen.

Mit acht sind Sie dann nach Australien gezogen. Model zu sein war aber nicht Ihr Traum.

Nein, in der Schule war ich ziemlich akademisch. Ich bin mit einer alleinerziehenden Mutter aufgewachsen, die sehr gebildet ist. Der Gedanke war, dass Bildung der einzige Weg ist, wie wir unsere sozioökonomischen Grenzen überwinden könnten. Aber sogar meine Mutter hat festgestellt, dass das Modeln eine Chance war, die ich nicht gehen lassen konnte. Die Uni kann warten.

Was hätten Sie denn studiert?

Jus, das möchte ich immer noch. Vielleicht würde ich mich auf Menschenrechte spezialisieren. Das Modeln ist perfekt, wenn man jung ist. Man lernt viele Orte kennen, coole Leute, und man kann seinen Charakter bilden. Es ist, wie wenn man zur Armee geht. Man wird sehr schnell erwachsen. Man muss lernen, mit Kritik umzugehen, sich um sich selbst zu kümmern. Und man lernt, sein Ego in Zaum zu halten.

Apropos Kritik: Wurden Sie verletzt?

Ich habe gehört, ich sei ein Alien... Am Anfang war es schwierig, weil keiner wusste, was er mit mir tun sollte. Es gab viele Zweifel und gemischte Botschaften. Das war schwer in einem so jungen Alter, in dem man nur versucht, selbst herauszufinden, wer man ist, und gleichzeitig alle zufriedenzustellen. Aber man entwickelt eine dicke Haut. Und ich hatte das Glück, sehr schnell gefeiert zu werden. Die meisten Kids in meiner Situation enden obdachlos, auf der Straße oder in der Prostitution.

Und wo sehen Sie sich in 20 Jahren?

Auf einer kleinen Farm in Osteuropa, denke ich. Mit ein bisschen Geld und Hühnern. Ein abgeschiedenes Leben ohne Elektrizität. Und mit neun Katzen.

("Die Presse", Print-Ausgabe, 18.11.2012)



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2012-11 Open Ordinary House - Austrian Design Pop Up Store

Andrej Pejic at the Ordinary House in Pandorf  -from @wolfileitner


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2012-11-17 “Lights On” Event und Pop up Store

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Topmodel Andrej Pejic eröffnete den Pop-Up Store (facebook.com/DesignerOutletParndorf)

at Crown Oaks Day Melbourne

Andrej出現在00:54 (大約3秒)。真的是超短暫的......

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Andrej Pejic and Erica Moloney at Oaks Day Melbourne Cup Carnival

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Andrej Pejic in in Australia thanks to Swisse Vitamins - who invited him to attend Oaks Day (part of the Melbourne Cup Carnival). Andrej had a great time in the Swisse Marquee, chatting to guests and having a few bets on the horses. Looking smashing as always…

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Stunning Andrej Pejic arrives in the Swisse Marquee

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Andrej Pejic and his mum at Swisse enjoying Oaks Day
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Andrej Pejic at Crown Oaks Day’s Melbourne Cup Carnival
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And we’re off to the races, places, ready, set, the gate is down.

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Andrej Pejic and Peter Barro At Emirates


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Andrej Pejic and Kim Cattrall in Herald Sun 10.11.2012

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Andrej Pejic in an Australian newspaper

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2012-11-8 Mad hatter blocks femiman's headpiece

Andrej Pejic wears his back-up Kerrie Stanley hat after Irish milliner Philip Treacy and the VRC objected to him wearing a Princess Beatrice tribute hat. Photo: Suzanne Carbone

Pejic, a hit in New York and international catwalks for his feminine beauty, wore a substitute hot-pink hat that Stanley made and was unaware that Treacy and the VRC did not want the tribute hat being worn. Being someone who likes a joke, here's his reason for not wearing the hat:

"I see it as a symbol of a vagina, so I'm saving it for my wedding day."

He added that several sheikhs had asked for his hand in marriage.

That hat: Princess Beatrice of York at the royal wedding last year. Photo: Getty Images

The apparent banning of the hat and the censorship of another milliner's work is puzzling given Stanley's tribute hat did not mock the Beatrice hat, which the princess wore to the royal wedding of her cousin, Prince William and Kate Middleton last year and has been likened to everything from a pretzel to a uterus and an antenna. The hat was even Photoshopped on to the head of the Queen, Osama bin Laden and Donald Trump.

Stanley said her version was "sculptural" and honoured the brilliant work of Treacy. "I'd hate to think that he would be upset with me," she said.

Stanley, a talented and respected milliner, was commissioned by Swisse some time ago to make the hat and fashion designer Arthur Galan was asked to make a tribute outfit, a light pink suit. Pejic wore the trousers but couldn't wear the jacket because he spilt a drink on it, replacing it with another jacket.

Stanley was pleased that Pejic still wore one of her designs, dismissing the controversy by saying: "He's still wearing a beautiful hat." After being told the tribute hat could not be worn, she dismantled it and used the parts for other hats.

Pejic's manager from Chadwick Models, Matthew Anderson, said about the hat switch: "We wanted to keep the peace."

Treacy's close friend Christine Barro, the fashionista who runs Christine's salon in Flinders Lane, agreed that the hat shouldn't have been worn, saying it was in "awfully bad taste" and an insult to Treacy, the royals and Pejic.

"When I read about the tribute hat, I was a bit speechless – I didn't know what to say. I thought 'How weird is that?' I was sort of in shock."

Barro said Pejic was a "gorgeous boy" who should express himself in other ways. "Wouldn't it be nice if he's his own style."

Yesterday, Treacy judged finals of Myer's Fashions on the Field with Jennifer Hawkins, Sass & Bide designers Heidi Middleton and Sarah-Jane Clarke, Chiara Passerini, the wife of cyclist Cadel Evans, and Fashions on the Field ambassador Alison Saville.

When asked about the Beatrice hat last week, Treacy said: "I just thought I was making a hat with a bow on it."


from :http://www.watoday.com.au/lifestyle/fashion/mad-hatter-blocks-femimans-headpiece-20121108-290fh.html#ixzz2BdCqrxS9

2012-11-9 Andrej Pejic's headwear tribute falls flat

The VRC has confirmed that it requested Swisse guest Andrej Pejic not wear his Princess Beatrice-inspired head piece to Oaks Day for fear of offending guest hat designer Philip Treacy.

Chadwick Models director Matthew Anderson said on the eve of Oaks Day he was informed that the VRC was concerned about the international modelling sensation's selection of headwear.

Androgynous model Pejic had been tipped to hit the track in an outfit that would "pay tribute" to the much-maligned headwear Princess Beatrice wore to last year's royal wedding.

Treacy was responsible for the controversial hat, referred to by some as "the pretzel".

"We wanted him to wear the hat, it was a tribute to a milliner that Andrej has great respect for," Mr Anderson said.

VRC CEO Dale Monteith said when the VRC was made aware that Pejic was considering attending in a tribute outfit, they asked that he find an alternative.

It was thought that this may have offended special guests at Flemington this week.

Treacy, who is the VRC International Style Ambassador for this year's Melbourne Cup Carnival, said he was flattered Pejic had wanted to pay tribute.

"I'm one of his biggest fans," Treacy said.


Pejic's headwear was the subject of careful debate. Picture: Tim Carrafa Source: Herald Sun


from http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/special-reports/andrej-pejics-headwear-tribute-falls-flat/story-fn6pls5z-1226513304118

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2012-11-3 Andrej Pejic the Giant - the boy in girls' clothing

That's how Melbourne's other boy from Broadmeadows refers to his androgyny, as in "I don't see why I have any less right to a job because of my situation" or "I think people from all sorts of sexual orientations find my whole situation interesting".

Pejic is six-foot-one of gender-bending feline features, alabaster skin and lithe limbs; a look that's made him the hottest runway export from Oz since Gemma Ward or Miranda Kerr, yet in demand on the catwalk in both men's and women's clothing.

Like Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino from Jersey Shore, Pejic's "situation" is his money-maker. Since making New York his base 18 months ago, he's become a red-hot favourite of haute-couture royalty Marc Jacobs, John Galliano and Jean Paul Gaultier, donning everything from men's suits to bridal gowns and push-up bras.

Last year, he met the Queen dressed in heels and a vintage Versace pencil skirt while an issue of Dossier magazine featuring him topless on the cover was banned by leading US bookshops Borders and Barnes & Noble without an opaque sleeve in case readers confused him for a woman.

Gaultier said of the 21-year-old in March when he fronted the designer's Kokorico men's fragrance ad campaign:

"He is quite beautiful and incredible. Everybody can recognise his beauty ... he's like a modern woman-boy of today. He's not like the old type of, let's say, maybe like a drag queen or a transvestite, not at all. He's Andrej."

Pejic says being the target of such praise is beyond his wildest dreams.

"It's amazing that someone so legendary picks you out as a muse or whatever," he says down the phone from New York. "It's a huge honour and kind of like a validation that I can be successful and this can work.

"I never had a plan and thinking about things like modelling or fame wouldn't have been sensible. Growing up with a single mother, early on I was told education was the only way to transcend your socio-economic status, so I never even considered (modelling). It's kind of crazy it's happened to me."

So with controversy and plaudits aplenty, where to next for the model dubbed the "femi-man"?

PEJIC has taken some time off from the top-end European catwalk circuit, but hasn't been idle.

As well as appearances at fashion weeks in Turkey and Singapore, he's been filming his own reality show for NBC. He's shot the pilot and says the show's in "very early development".

This week, Hurricane Sandy pending, he's due back home for the races, being flown in from NY by vitamin giant Swisse to be a guest in its Birdcage marquee on Thursday's Oaks Day, traditionally known as Ladies Day.

Pejic's tipped to hit the track in an outfit that'll "pay tribute" to the much-maligned outfit Princess Beatrice wore to last year's royal wedding.

A self-confessed mummy's boy, he loves coming back to Melbourne. "I miss how nice people are and laidback and friendly," he says.

"I love the nature and the cultural scene. I don't (follow) a football team though ... I'm not really into sports."

Bosnian-born Pejic began experimenting with his look, dyeing his hair pink and wearing make-up, at 14. "At high school, I got a lot of praise for (my appearance), and people said I should do modelling," he says.

Three years later he'd be discovered, not while flipping burgers at McDonald's, not while cleaning toilets in a strip club and not while working in a corn field - all "urban myths" peddled by Pejic to amuse himself, laughs his manager Matthew Anderson, director of Chadwick Models in Melbourne.

Truth is, it happened the old-fashioned way - teenager sends in pictures to agency, they like what they see and sign him up.

"I was shown the pics and said, 'She's beautiful', and then I was like, 'Oh, it's a boy'," Anderson recalls.

"We called Andrej in and as soon as he walked in I knew I was looking at somebody special, an extraordinarily beautiful human being, and very symmetrical.

"But I also didn't have a clue what I was doing to do with him. My initial thought was send him to Europe."

But with the economy in the grip of the GFC at the time, models were being sent home and agencies told the market was dead. Pejic bided his time, finished school and did some work locally before heading overseas and finding fame with fashion's uber-names.

"Andrej presented to stylists and magazine editors something different and something that was fashion in its purest art form," Anderson explains.

"In the beginning, people became agitated at Andrej wearing women's fashion and were angry, saying 'Why is a boy doing this?' But the detractors were totally missing the point.

"What Andrej represented wasn't actually boys shouldn't be wearing women clothes or women need to have a boy's body, it was just art ... We're not talking about high-street retailers selling clothes to middle Australia or middle America, we're talking about Jean Paul Gaultier.

"What Andrej bought was something shocking and artistic and pushed boundaries. We hadn't had that for a long time. People go, 'What's the world coming to?' but you look back to Boy George in the '80s and David Bowie in the '70s, and it's all cyclic."

At last year's New York Fashion Week, Pejic strutted in five shows for men and four for women but says he feels more aligned with modelling female fashion these days. "There's more money, a bigger industry, and my look is more suited," he says.

He has no qualms sharing change rooms with females - "I get asked about that a lot, but it's a strange thing to ask a model because we get changed in front of lots and lots of people and all together," he says - though he's certain his female colleagues have bitched about having a boy on their turf.

"It's competitive. I feel that some of them (females) may have thought I didn't have a right to some of these jobs. In a way you feel like an immigrant coming into a country and people are like, 'They're taking our jobs', but I think what's important is that the clothes look good on me and I have a face for it, so I don't see why I have any less right to any job."

However, he's conscious of fashion's fickle nature and his look having an expiry date.

"The whole point is to go beyond, become something more than just a look, to build a name for yourself and extend your career and that's what I'm trying to do now - build a brand, get a name.

"I was very specific (in looks) in the beginning, and they used to say the market was very limited. But it's gotten a lot better (earning wise) and getting very good now, but I still don't make the money that celebrities do."

He goes on to say that life as a model isn't as glamorous as people may think.

"It involves working a lot and travel. Many perceive travel as glam, but you're just there for five days and you see the hotel room and the studio. There are amazing things to say about it still. I've been to every city I've wanted to go to, and there's the parties. But there's a tough side that involves a lot of work and a lot of stress."

On a practical level, Pejic's shoe size equates to a woman's 11, which is big for a female, so he regularly has to force his feet into ill-fitting heels to walk in shows.

And then there's the issue of maintaining one's model measurements. Pejic is 34-26-35 - that is, a 34-inch chest, 26-inch waist and 35-inch hips.

He stays in shape with regular gym sessions. He does mainly cardio, careful not bulk up with weights. "Eating-wise, I try to not deny myself any type of food, but I keep the quantity pretty low. I have rules about no sweets or fried things. Two no-nos."

Pejic also likes to party. A typical night out on the tiles in New York involves dinner before visiting a few bars and ending up in Manhattan's hip Meatpacking District.

Plus, he's newly single - "I'm always looking for love," he says - but declines to discuss his ex. In fact, Pejic is pretty cagey about his love life, and much has been made of his sexuality. His response? "For me, love has no boundaries. I think that's how it should be for everybody."

In January, he Tweeted: "Oh if I had a penny for every straight couple that's asked me to join them in a threesome ... I would make a donation to the Catholic Church." He cracks up when I remind him of this. "Oh, that's just my humour," he insists. So were you joking or not?

"No. I do (get approached). A lot. I think people find me very interesting in kind of a sexual way. I have to say I'm not a very sexual person myself. I'm romantic and all that, but I think people from all sorts of sexual orientations find my whole situation interesting."


He says he'd like to have a family one day, "although I'm more maternal than paternal. I definitely want kids. I like the idea of adopting. Definitely, but not soon."

Pejic turned 21 this August, celebrating on the Greek party island of Mykonos before a get-together with family and high-school chums in Melbourne, and then another party in New York with industry types - stylists, designers, models.

He lives by himself in New York, currently renting an apartment on the Upper East Side, shunning the typical model share houses. He reads to relax, citing Dostoyevsky, D.H. Lawrence, Tolstoy and Dickens among his favourite authors.

"I'm trying to get through all the classics because I think literature used to be so much better than it is now. I'm intending to read Fifty Shades of Grey at some stage, though."

JADRANKA Pejic always thought her youngest son, Andrej, would follow in her footsteps and become a lawyer, or a doctor. It was her older boy, Igor, a civil engineer who's now training to be a paramedic, she thought might find fame.

"Igor was the one who did some modelling and showed interest in fashion but it's happened the opposite," says Jadranka, who's now a teacher. "Andrej was always academic."

Pejic was born in Tuzla, Bosnia, several months before the start of the Bosnian war, a conflict that put his Serbian mother and Croatian father on opposing sides.

Pejic explains: "During the war, it became difficult for them to stay in one place together being a mixed-race couple and then after the war, (my father) became quite nationalist and their marriage disintegrated. I never really grew up with him. I don't have a really strong connection with him."

His father, an economist, parted ways with the family when Pejic fled to a Serbian refugee camp with his mother, brother and grandmother. They later migrated to Australia when he was eight.

Consequently, he feels strongly about the issue of boat people seeking asylum in Australia - "I want to live in a world where we don't have borders, where people are allowed to live wherever they want. I'm definitely opposed to (sending boats back)," he says - but remembers his own childhood affectionately.

"I know it was a struggle for my mum but I feel like I was shielded from a lot of the s--t that was going on. It was a carefree, loving childhood just with not a lot of material things, and no father."

In his adopted homeland, Pejic learned to speak English and attended Broadmeadows West Primary School. Jadranka, who still lives in the blue-collar northern suburb, says while he excelled academically, in Year 4 or 5 he started to withdraw "and didn't express himself properly when he realised he was a bit different".

She credits his move to Parkville's University High School with Pejic eventually coming out of his shell.

"The quiet kid started to put on make-up, have a different hairstyle, pink hair, wear the skinny jeans," she says. "It was probably environment, alternative students, alternative compared with the place you live unfortunately.

"He found an environment where he could express himself and had friends who supported him. Family, in the beginning, we were shocked. Sometimes I complain, 'Why pink hair?', and he says, 'This is the first time I'm doing what I really want', and I said, 'Well, why not? Go ahead.' He even got support from his grandma."

Jadranka misses her boy, but mother and son are close. They speak at least once a week and also stay in touch via social media.

Pejic might be a global citizen now but Jadranka says he's still "first a very nice person, with a very nice nature". And Anderson praises his charge for always being true to himself.

"People sort of say, 'Is Andrej part of a trend?' No, he is the trend," Anderson says.

"But he's not a gimmick, he's just being himself and understands who he is. Sure, he has a lot of fun being himself and is happy to push the limits and do outrageous things on occasion because I think that satisfies a desire in him to be expressive."

It's true that the ever-intriguing boy from Broady remains constant, next looking to mix up his look and trade in his blond locks, just as he did as a teenager.

"I think it's important for anyone just not models to keep changing your look and keep it interesting, otherwise they'll lose interest in you," he says.

Doubtful, Andrej.


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