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The slim feature, the long blond hair, the elegant attitude... Andrej is a supermodel.
Yes, Andrej, because he's a boy.
His androgynous appearance is his greatest asset, he is the genderless muse of Jean-Paul Gaultier and Marc Jacobs.
We met him.
They are all supermodels, preparing for the First show of the Fashion Week by jean-Paul Gaultier.
Among them, is this slender silhouette, 1m83, an angelic face and platinum blond hair.
His name is Andrej Pejic, a 20 year-old young man and he's the latest muse of Jean-Paul Gaultier.
he's perfect. At the moment, he's taking it easy. It's the rehearsal, but then he'll rock!
Anyway, he'll explode
What?
Anyway, he'll explode...
Do you think so? really? Absolutely not. Oh no no no, he's perfect.
Among this assembly of beautiful males, the designer chose Andrej and his pale skin to play the first role.
Andrej grew up in Australia, but he was born during the war, in Bosnia.
His father is Croatian, his mother is Serbian, he spent the first 8 years of his life in a refugee camp.
yeah, it's about Sarajevo during the war
yeah, it's important to know about something as tragical as that.
Jean-Paul Gaultier launched the young man's career in just a year.
When I saw him...hum...the first time, I felt confused, because I think everyone feels confused...this beauty,at the same time...
well, the word androgynous...androgynous and he is a beautiful boy, but also a beautiful woman.
So, what's funny, I remember, his first show..The boys were looking at him, they didn't know...
they found him gorgeous, anyway..
Tonight, in the hall, several hundred people attend the show.
They are observing the Fall/Winter 2012-2013 Male collection.
At this moment, Andrej is walking for the men's.
But it's another show which made his fame.
It was in january, still with Jean-Paul Gaultier, Andrej Pejic was embodying a beautiful and impressive bride.
The young man, who lives in New York, will spend the whole week in Europe for the fashion shows
A model who can walk as a man and a woman, he's the only one who's doing it!
Thank you!
He's very popular
When he's in Paris, it's like: "We want Andrej, we want Andrej"
We're always having a very short time, so it's a big planning to manage.
300 models, men and women, are woking for this agency. Is he with the males?
He's with the men, of course. Andrej, Andrej is there..
Andrej is with the men's, but he's posing mostly as a woman.
After the bride dress, these pictures published in Vogue added much to his success.
What did you feel, wearing women's clothes on those pictures?
I felt normal...I'm wearing my women's clothes anyway, to me it's...natural.
Since you're small or...
Yeah, since very young.
Like what?
Like 3 year-old.
Like 3 year-old?
Well, I've been like putting on my mom's clothes, her make ups, all of that, since I was very young.
It's Frédéric Benfaid, the agency manager, who saw the potential of the young man.
He's receiving 200 applications a week, but was immediately captivated by this natural ambiguity.
It was the first photos, he had 3 photos and I adored this photo!
This, it's really...there, the first photos that we had. I felt like it was striking to me, because I didn't know.
We can see him there, even the form...he has woman's hips, even a hint of ***.
It's quite strange, it's an image, but what he's giving, what he radiates, it makes..
yes yes yes, he's sublime, when we see the boy, he's sublime.
He's unique, during my 30-year career, I've never met...such a model.
At that time, Andrej was 17 and he was discovered in an Australia's mall.
My agent Joseph, he came to see me, he gave me his card...and I ran away.
Because I was young and shy...and I thought he was a creep!
Andrej called him in the end, seeing it as a casual job, a way to earn money.
His mother encouraged him, she was even the one who paid him his first trip to Europe.
The new darling of fashion is now living in hotels all around the world.
And he never forgets to call his mother, once a week.
This 53 year-old law teacher still lives in Australia.
Hello Mom! How are you?
You should come to visit us, we want to see you! When are you coming?
It has been an eternity since we last saw you!
Yeah, I know, you should come to see me too.
Take care and eat, eat please, or you'll look like a little skeleton!
His mom has always accepted his femininity, even though she was worried when Andrej became a teenager.
Her main worry was my safety.
She thought I could get abused or socially rejected.
So she did worry about that, but she realized that this is the only way for me to be happy.
Since then, she is very proud of her son's career and collects all his fashion photos.
This is my daily life. This is what I wear. All about fashion.
For a lunch with two of his friends, an american male model and a british photographer, he chose the top floor of the Centre Pompidou.
The restaurant offers one of the most stunning views over the roof tops of Paris.
Wherever he goes, everyone is mistaking him for a woman.
This one is a big potatoe salad, or the lobster salad.
And where's the lobster salad?
Lobster salad is here, Madam.
Madam, Sir, it doesn't matter.
I don't think you're defined by a *** gender, for me, there is no difference between women and men, we are all human.
I'm coming from Missouri for me, in the middle of America
It's something I have never been exposed to, someone like him. It's not shocking, it's surprising, obviously.
He looks like he feels, it's pretty cool.
The next day, Andrej is in Berlin to be part of the biggest fashion show of the German Fashion Week, one of his 7 contracts this week.
The model was chosen by Michalsky, a star of the ready-to-wear across the Rhine.
Welcome to Berlin!
But concerning the shoes...
Do shoes fit you?
Yeah.
You know, we had to do so much work, yesterday...
Why?
Because we thought they were too small. We had to call the shoemaker to expand them a little bit.
Andrej is wearing size 42.
Just take the pain and squeeze your toes and walk.
A show, even for a popular model, it means also hours of to wait,
fatigue of journeys to bear and very strict instructions to follow.
All be here, then the middle. You do your pose, and you walk, you turn on the left and walk for right.
Do you understand? Thank you.
It's german mentality.
Here, it's like this, like this, like this, it's their mentality. But here they start on time, it's not like Paris of New York, so, so where they start lately.
Theresa has been a model for 12 years. It's her first show with Andrej.
I've never seen a guy coming this way in Fashion and take women's job. It's interesting.
The former tennisman Boris Baker and 1200 persons attend the show.
It's doesn't intimidate Andrej enough.
He'll sign, in a few weeks, his first contract for a fragrance campaign.