Avant-garde clothes, long messy hair, jutting cheekbones, sullen model....
the usual ingredients are all there
the usual ingredients are all there
Only upon a second glance and display of prominent biceps does it become obvious that the figure modeling women's clothes is, in fact, a man. Had a male model with little muscle mass been used, I doubt we would have noticed at all. Perhaps most disturbingly, the last dress looks practically identical on both the male and female models:
pic via style.com
The visuals are a bit grotesque, but thought-provoking. After all, does the aforementioned male model really look more overtly masculine than female models like Iselin or Freja?pic via style.com
Obviously androgyny in fashion is nothing new, but what's most striking about this is the blatant homogeneity of men's and women's bodies in fashion- when female fashion models, our supposed "ideals", fill out garments in a nearly identical manner to men, is it "edgy" or are the aesthetics of women's bodies being merged with men's, losing their own identities in the process?
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