Maple & Mango: Androgyny

Get ready for some mind blowing pictures.

I was going over Lookbook last night when I stumbled upon a picture who I thought was I girl. When I saw his name, my jaw dropped and realized, he is a guy. People, meet Michael Tintiuc, a 19 year old model from Moldova. Moldova --- where? Yeah, thought so. I've seen a blog of a girl from Moldova but I didn't know that a model is from there. I'm not saying that people from Moldova don't have the right to be in the fashion industry but it's just that, it's not your usual country to associate with fashion. Alright, 'nuff said.

Nagulat kayo no? Siya na ang maganda! Parang ayokong tumabi sa kanya dahil mas maganda pa siya sa akin. This guy has a lookbook page and a blog of his own. He has walked the runway for Gareth Pugh and Rick Owens. Well, peg naman talaga niya ang fashion aesthetics ng mga designers na yun. With this, I realized that the fashion is indeed ever changing and becoming more and more, shall I say, unconventional? Androgyny is becoming very much of a trend and models who look like the opposite sex tend to sell more. Gets? Girls who look like boys and boys who look like girls. Here are more proof.

Meet Andrej Pejic (read as Andrey Pej-ik). He was born in Yugoslavia but because of the war, he and his family moved to Australia. Now at first glance, who would have thought that this is a freaking guy???!!! Ang ganda niya, yun lang. Because he is so gorgeous, he still looks like a woman even if he wears men's clothes.

Bumenta siya ng sobra when he closed the show of Jean Paul Gaultier wearing the designer's wedding dress. Imagine, a guy wearing a wedding dress?!

I am not sure if he is gay or not (there's nothing wrong if he is) but I noticed that he's been wearing more women's clothes in pictures. So I guess it's up to people on how they want to see him/ her.

Well, here's another proof. Meet Erika Linder, another gender-bender model. This Swedish model is so unbelievable. She can show her soft side when modeling women's wear and can be true hottie when she needs to model men's wear. People say she looks like River Phoenix and Leonardo DiCaprio (Titanic and Romeo + Juliet time).