2014-1-23 New York - ASHLEY SMITH x RVCA

 1/23/2014 - New York - ASHLEY SMITH x RVCA – Collaboration Launch Dinner Hosted by RVCA Founder PM Tenore and model Ashley Smith held at Acme, NYC. 

Photo Credit: David X Prutting/BFAnyc/Sipa USA

by Max Doyle

http://instagram.com/maxdoylephotography

2014-1 at David Lachapelle’s party.

http://instagram.com/maopr

http://instagram.com/maopr

Transforming the Fashion Industry

2013 has been a year of social change for the world in many ways. Gay marriage is legal in France and the United Kingdom, and controversial entertainer Miley Cyrus was a finalist in Time Magazine’s Person Of The Year poll. As a community, fashion has always played a role in pushing the boundaries of the social norm, yet as an industry, it has been reluctant to change itself. Whether some of these recent social shifts can be attributed to the fashion world’s in- fluences or vice versa, we can’t help but notice how one the world’s most progressive industries has finally witnessed some change as well.

 

More fashion industry barriers have been broken down this year than almost any before.

 

More then ever before we’re seeing models in every shape, size, color, and most notably, gender, in the glossy pages of our favorite publications and on the runways for our favorite designers. Fashion seems to have entered a new cycle in which people like Andrej Pejic and Carmen Carrera models once outsiders to the selective set now not only being welcomed by the industry, but celebrated.

Back in November, a petition by Change.org went viral on the Internet requesting for Elite model and former RuPaul’s Drag Race contestant, Carmen Carrera, to become the first transgendered Victoria’s Secret Angel. While the petition received the normal backlash from conservatives, the amount of support for Carrera was something unprecedented. With over 40,000 backers already on the model’s side to gain one of the most coveted titles in the fashion industry to date, Carmen has become another figure in the fight for global brands, and the world in general, to recognize and embrace the new face of fashion.

 

In a recent article published in the Daily Beast, the model stated the following about becoming the first transgendered Angel: “I mean, in all honesty, let’s keep it real. I know how these things work in the industry. I mean I understand the casting process and I understand that it’s difficult to get into a show like this,” she said. “But at the same time, I definitely feel that I meet all the requirements.” Having already had a major spread in W Magazine alongside industry heavy hitters like Linda Evangelista this year, the model’s climb to the top is evident and serves as a true testament as to how the industry is changing for the better.

 

While Carmen is one of the few warriors on the front line in the fight, she surely isn’t alone. Andrej Pejic, the Australian-bred supermodel who’s set a new industry bar by working as both a man and woman for some the world’s biggest designers, has been one of the most prominent faces in the media since she was 17-years-old. Her ability to portray both gender roles with seamless grace has led the model to become the poster child for the new movement in the fashion industry where a person’s gender stops at their birth certificate. We spoke with Andrej at the Galore Magazine holiday party and she had much to say about the subject.

“Strictly speaking in the fashion industry, I think there is a whole movement of tapping into beauty beyond the boundaries of gender. There is a huge rise of transgender models. A huge rise of androgynous boys and girls”, she said. “In the beginning when I set out, we all thought it was a fad. But I think it has become a good part of fashion. Its interesting to see what’s going to happen next. Its proved that it can survive beyond a fifteen minute trend.”

 

While the use of this niche group is becoming more common, you have to wonder why, in such an open industry, it’s still such a taboo subject. “I think that fashion is interesting because it is run by open minded, homosexual people but it tries to give off a heterosexual image” Andrej said. “These campaigns are so different from the people who make them. There is an apprehension of what will the consumer think, how to relate to the consumer if we put a trans woman in the campaign. Its more to do with the people who run fashion rather than the consumers, but that thinking is changing and so is society. Its proving to be more accepting of what we thought would never be accepted.”

 

Regardless of whether or not the transgendered community is here to stay, the fight for equality continues everyday through people like Andrej and Carmen. If there’s anything we can learn from both the civil and women’s rights movements, it is that you can only hold people down for so long, and once they’ve won, there’s no going back. As people open up to a more progressive way of thinking and become more understanding of difference, we will hopefully enter a new age of unity around the world where everyone is considered the same, regardless of their gender or sexual identity. After all, it’s 2014, and intolerance was so last year.

2014-1-20 德國潮牌MCM炫風登台！快閃店時髦空降台北微風廣場

Out Magazine's Fourth Annual 100 Most Eligible Bachelors

繼續投票!

guys please keep voting!!!!

 

前進12! 繼續投票,各位。拜託

我知道很煩人,但還是得說:繼續投票! 我希望能看到名次繼續前進。

繼續投票,各位。 別讓名次停在這裡。

 

繼續投票,有機會進10名!

快進10了,繼續投票,各位!

 

Yeah! 第9名

第8名

 

名次掉下來了!!!

好啦,從10號一夜大逆轉後,就一直停在這了。 嗯......雖然不想這麼說,但可能就是這樣了吧。

2014-1 Sophie Sumner birthday party

Sophie Sumner, Andrej Pejic, Kyle Bryan at Loz Felix, NY.http://instagram.com/on_abbotkinney

----

近期只會更新今年的工作或活動之類的。

也可能無法像之前那樣頻繁更新,等一些事情處理完,有更多時間再繼續。

2014-1 MCM SS 2014 Campaign

Strikingly rebellious & eloquently glamorous, MCM’s SS14 s/hero exudes a wildly androgynous aesthetic, elucidating MCM’s nature-couture ‘Flower Boys in Paradise’ campaign in style.

Born in Bosnia & raised in Australia, top-model Andrej Pejic is a 22 year old fashion model who rose to stardom through his iconic chameleon appearance. Commencing in Melbourne, MCM’s SS14 paradisiacal-pioneer debuted with top-tier agencies where he debuted his genderless styles on the catwalks of Europe’s ‘City of Lights’, London, and America’s ‘Big Apple’ rapidly ascending to success.

In a bevy of highlight debuts, Pejic has made impressive strides from Vogue France to the billboards of Times Square, and was ranked as one of model.com’s top 50 Male Models, and likewise FHM Magazine’s 100 Sexiest Women in the World highlight his talent for style versatility in gender-blind facades, achieving the ratings as one of the most promising up-and-coming top-models to watch.

 

MCM Spring/Summer 2014 - Behind-the-Scenes Making-of Video

MCM Spring/Summer 2014 Campaign “Flower Boys in Paradise”.

Andrej Pejic 'Being Androgynous Is Like Having A Threesome'

Selected Helmut Lang pieces from private archieves.

02 Semotan jork 1920 hq from brand unit OG on Vimeo.

Andrej Pejic, Ines Rau and friends in Paris

Andrej Pejic, Ines Rau, and Rose McGowan in Paris.

Andrej Pejic by Elfie Semotan.

130627 01 Semotan Jork 1920 hq from brand unit OG on Vimeo.

2013-7 andrej pejic ,niki mnray rowan papier & lucas gooss

2013-1-29 Exclusive Photos: Andrej Pejic’s Paris Fashion Week Diary

"Me and model Lindsey Wixson in our robes after getting our makeup done backstage."

"My look for a well-deserved Parisian night out."

"Was dying over my look, Indian couture is where it be."

"One last quick pic of me and my best friend and model, Inès Loan Rau, leaving the Jean Paul building after the show, serving for the press. As we left, Inès quipped 'Oh, don't be ridiculous. Everybody wants this.'"

"Jean Paul Gaultier is a legend and I had the pleasure of exclusively walking for his brand in both his men's and women's shows. That's my model card for the women's Jean Paul Gaultier Couture, showing my look and identity. Everyone has one near their rack. My other look was canceled at the last second because the dress was not finished in time, but hey, that's couture."

"My looks for the men's Jean Paul Gaultier presentation. "She went back to being a man!" ... for two hours. Very Paris Is Burning."

"Just touched down in Paris for Fashion Week Day 1 and already whisked to a shoot. I'm getting ready backstage at a shoot feeling like Madonna when she just arrived to New York."

"Me getting my weave on."

"It is beginning to snow, but it is time to go out with my friends Inès Loan Rau and the amazing makeup artist, Niki Manray." 

"Walking home after a night and morning out in Paris, giving sex on legs in the snow."