14 DAY TRIAL // Andrej Pejic isn’t the only model to break gender barriers by working both as a male and female model. Former professional athlete Casey Legler is a woman who’s more comfortable modeling menswear, and she’s slowly but surely becoming the hottest thing on the scene.
The other day, she sat down for an interview with CNN to talk about whether she feels odd modeling menswear when she’s actually a woman and, perhaps just as importantly, why she’d choose to walk down this path.
You can see the segment embedded below, at the end of the article.
Casey is the first female to model menswear (whereas Andrej is the first male to model womenswear) and she insists she prefers it to modeling for women’s clothes.
“There's so much more involved [in female modeling]. There's the voguing and... the make-up and the whole thing,” she says.
Far from considering modeling for men’s clothes confusing – for anyone – Casey believes modeling is just a means of expressing yourself artistically, whether you’re a man or a woman.
“I have always used my body to kind of be the narrative, to carry the narrative of what I'm doing. So in a way, this modeling is kind of an extension of that,” she says.
In the end, it’s not the specifics that matter but the message: and hers is that excellence should be celebrated even if it doesn’t fit in century-old molds.
“I think what's interesting... is what it says about how we celebrate difference,” she says.
“I think that this in the fashion world is just an example of what's happening in a larger sphere, about celebrating excellence in whatever package it comes in,” Casey adds.
In the same interview, Casey reveals that, growing up, she actually had a fondness for girlie clothes and even tutus. To this day, she still owns one and she’s not afraid to admit it.
