In an article from Time, Casey Legler works as a male model—as a female.
Much in the inverse-vein of Andrej Pejic, she is a gorgeously masculine female that landed this past summer a contract to model men’s clothes exclusively. However, in an equally gorgeous simplicity, she skirts around academic-speak of identity and norms.
“I understand signifiers. We’re social creatures and we have a physical language of communicating with each other,” she says. “But it would be a really beautiful thing if we could all just wear what we wanted, without it meaning something.”
Standing at 6’2″, Legler—a French native—started work as a swimmer, where she qualified for the Olympic Games in Atlanta. Her dive into androgyny began there, where she and her male teammates shaved their heads, eventually leading her to explore her own body through various media.
“I have a body of work. I don’t think that anyone looking at that body of work and then seeing me as a model would see it as any kind of a stretch,” Legler said in the article. “It implies something interesting. I am not the artmaker in those cases. I get to participate with other artmakers as part of their palette.”
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