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| Fashion's male model of the moment, Andrej Pejic. Photograph by Rebecca Michael. |
It’s a well known fact that androgyny has been huge in women’s fashion for quite a few seasons how. In fact, like anything that creates a huge boom, it seems to be passing, and "Victoria’s Secret" body types are being seen more and more on the runway and in editorials instead of tomboys.
What’s very new and exciting though, is not androgyny in women’s fashion (because I’m sure that if you google the two together, you will get 82376582635713057102758937586245724 hits), but in men’s fashion.
I’ve been seeing many thinner, smaller boys, with long flowing hair walk down the runway, and now with the growing popularity of Croatian-born model Andrej Pejic, I think it is safe to say that men’s fashion designers are as much fans of androgyny as female fashion designers have been for a while.
I find it a very interesting phenomenon. On the one hand there is this big emergence of re-invention and looking at things from different perspectives, and on the other hand, there is a clear movement of people trying to become equal in every meaning of the word. At first, women fought very hard to be treated the same way men were, but then spent quite some time complaining about how the idea of courtship has died and men no longer see women for the fragile and delicate beings that they are, but rather as total equals, who are perfectly capable of opening their own doors.
I suppose that after listening to women not being able to decide on whether they wanted to be adored or given the same work opportunities, the men have also decided to take a stand. After all, maybe men want to feel fragile and be courted as well? Maybe they would like for a woman to hold the door for them? Most would still say no, considering men being significantly bigger and stronger than women, but fashion has always been a few steps ahead in terms of changes in society, and it seems that it is on a totally different page all together at the moment. Pejic’s measurements, for example, allow him to walk in women’s shows, which he has done on several occasions. Meanwhile, popular fashion magazine Candy has been playing with the idea of dressing boys up like girls for a while now, and, having a damn good time with it. If you don't believe, please check the pictures out after the jump!
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| James Franco, in drag, on the cover of Candy |
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| Vogue's big guns, Grace Coddington and Anna Wintour, portrayed in Candy by men |
So, to conclude, what does this mean? Will there be a moment when there will be no such thing as a stronger gender? Let’s be frank, courtship, in the traditional sense is long dead and gone, but who knows, maybe it will be resurrected by the other, “weaker” sex?
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