Look at this pic. Tell me, do you think that’s a girl or a guy?? A girl, right?? WRONG. It’s a 19-year-old MALE model from Serbia named Andre Pejic. And after the jump you can see his chest is out…looking even MORE like a girl. This picture is what graces the cover of this month’s “Dossier” magazine, and as you can imagine, it’s causing quite a stir. Hit the jump for the full picture and the details surrounding it.
(DM) – Two major U.S. book retailers have censored an image of androgynous male model Andrej Pejic ‘in case customers confuse him for a woman’.
The Serbian-born catwalk star, 19, who has appeared in shows for Givenchy and JeanShe added that colleagues in the industry were equally stunned.
But both Barnes & Noble and Borders have demanded that issues of the magazine come wrapped in opaque plastic.
Barnes & Noble is said to have told Dossier’s distributor that it would have to forfeit the order or agree to a covering concealing the image.
It said that though it understood that Mr Pejic was male and not female, ‘the model is young and it could be deemed as a naked female’.
Dossier co-founder and creative director Skye Parrott told Jezebel.com that the directive came as a shock.
She said: ‘We knew that this cover presented a very strong, androgynous image, and that could make some people uncomfortable. That’s partly why we chose it. I guess it has made someone pretty uncomfortable.’
‘I’ve been talking to all my friends who work in magazines, and nobody I know has ever heard of anything like this happening,’ she said. ‘Especially with a guy. Guys are shirtless on magazine covers all the time.
‘[It poses] a very interesting question of gender.’
Dossier, which sells 20,000 copies per issue, says that the Barnes & Noble and Borders orders represent just under 10 per cent of its print run.
But the booksellers’ ruling about the cover has already sparked some negative response.
An article on Jezebel read: ‘Pejic is a man. And pictures of shirtless men, in Western culture, are not considered “obscene”. So why is Pejic’s cover getting the same treatment as a porno mag?
‘What message are the big bookstore chains sending — that the male torso is only appropriate all-ages viewing when the man in question is ripped?’
Styleite added: ‘Need we remind you that a crazily buff (and pretty much shirtless) Aaron Schock graces the cover of June’s Men Health? If Andrej were muscled instead of waif-like, would this be an issue?
‘More importantly, if Andrej had a more masculine face, would this be an issue?’
DO YOU THINK IT SHOULD BE COVERED??
