Marc Jacobs Finds the Model Of His Dreams

Models don’t look like everyday women:  even those pesky breasts gets in the way of being walking coat hangers.  Marc Jacobs, not satisfied with merely using women who look like adolescent boys, is now using the model of the industry’s dreams – an adolescent boy who looks like the standard of the perfect woman model.   New York Daily News has already begun the terrible portmanteaus to describe Andrej Pejic, a 19 year old Serbian-Australian model, who wears his blond hair long and his lips pouty.  Perhaps Jacobs was inspired after being featured in the insipid New York Times article on 2010 being the year of the transsexual (funny, my calendar reads it was the year of the tiger).   For the record, no one is “going trans” here, it’s just good old-fashioned ‘genderbending’ and androgyny that cycles around repeatedly in fashion.  Jacobs probably wanted to up his edgy after getting Michelle Obama’s seal of approval on his fall collection.

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