HAUS OF ANDREJ PEJIC

12.21

2011

Andrej Pejic for Follow Magazine Brazil #5 by Tiago Molinos (Source: Andrej Pejic Portfolio)

09.03

2011

Who’s That Girl?

By Marcela Jacobina

Follow Magazine #5

The top androgynous model in the world, Andrej Pejic has a beauty that made him to be the bride of the haute couture for Gaultier, the cool guy of the campaign by Marc Jacobs. Born in 1991 in Bosnia and raised in Melbourne, Australia, the current muse of fashion was voted as one of the sexiest women of the year for the magazine FHM, and is among the 50 most popular models in the world.and in Brazil . He, who was the center of the attentions at the last Rio Fashion and in SPFW, posed and chatted with Follow, before leaving for Paris, where he participated in less than a month, at two seasons of parades. he’ll walk for Haute Couture and menwears.

Follow: How would you say your female characteristics have contributed to the construction of your personality? Does the androgynous beauty can affect your sexual orientation, for example?

AP: Our appearances certainly affect the formation of our personalities. I think this happens because the society treat appearance as a very large value and it’s also the society that form our personalities. Scientific theories proved that our sexual orientation is genetic inheritance and I really believe it. At least in my case I would say that I’m lucky to be born with a type of beauty that is consistent with my feelings.

Follow: Thinking about your childhood and teenage years, when you started to think that you could live at the same time in women’s world and men’s world?

AP: For me there is only one world for all races, all genders and all humans.

Follow: Do you see yourself as a man or as a woman or, both?

AP: If someone can explain to me what it means to be one or to be the other, perhaps I can respond to the question.

Follow: Have you already kissed a girl?

AP: But of course! If you’ve never kissed a girl, you have not yet lived.

Follow: How do your family see your work or your lifestyle?

AP: I have a wonderful relationship with my family and they are very supportive. Especially with my mother, who has worked hard to support me at the beginning of my career.

Follow: Talking about the beginning of your career, how did you become a model?

AP: At the beginning, I was following the Jenny Craig’s weight loss program in Australia. (laughs)

Follow: Which had been the works that you have enjoyed to do so far?

AP: My editorial for Vogue Paris, the campaign of Marc Jacobs, Haute Couture week, and of course to participate in the SPFW.

FOLLOW: What influences your style? Who are your muses, and references from books to movies, music and icons of beauty?

AP: I love the 80’s. I’m a fan to the style of Leigh Bowery and people like David Bowie and Amanda Lear. I love to read classics by Charles Dickens and Tolstoy. And my favorite movies are: Citizen K., Black Cat White Cat and Boys Don’t Cry.

Follow: It’s official you have made the history of the fashion industry as the first very androgynous model. Have you thought about how influential you have became?

AP: It is not nice to think about your fame. Obviously there are moments of self-worship, but it is not a very healthy attitude. It’s very important to stop and give yourself a slap to keep your feet on ground. It’s so nice to think that from now, in a few decades, people will remember what is happening now and perhaps by then, they will admire me.

FOLLOW: Plans for the future?

AP: It would be not bad to spend a time in a field. A deserved rest to the model that is two in one.

[THANK YOU to @morgana17_69 and @LilyHamou for the translation!]

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