With the growing power of male fashion, seen in the launch of the first men's shows last year during New York Fashion Week, demand for male models has exploded.īetween 10 and 15 per cent of male models find enough work to be employed full time, combining runway shows, advertising, catalogues and magazines, Ms Romani said. Today, according to Ms Romani, "a male model can be sort of interesting looking, or edgy or different" and be hired even if he does not fall into "a category of plastic, beautiful models". "And they're designing the clothes in that way so if you had a model that was big and muscular, that wouldn't fit." The new ideal male model is skinnier and also taller, hitting up to 1.9m, said Mr Neil Mautone, founder and owner of the agency Red Model Management.Īlong with the fading ideal of muscle is the classically beautiful face, formerly in demand for men as well as women. Very thin, edgy- looking guys," Ms Romani said. ![]() ![]() "For high fashion, that's definitely what they want. Hedi Slimane, while at Saint Laurent and Dior, was among the designers who transfigured the dominant vision of the masculine look into lank, languorous and unique. not so, so skinny," said Ms Tricia Romani, head of the Canadian branch of the Wilhelmina international modeling agency. Shoulders have lost their squareness, chests have sunk.īack then, "male models were a little bit bigger. Look back only a decade at male fashion shows - at Versace, Givenchy, Louis Vuitton or Gucci - to see the change on the catwalk. ![]() NEW YORK - Muscular, classically chiselled male models are a dying breed as men are ever more chosen for thinness, even androgyny, in a fashion world playing with the notion of gender.
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