Androgyny is just so… cool. Cool and edgy. It’s so unexpected, boys as girls, girls as boys. I mean, it’s ridiculous! It’s just turns the world on it’s head and you don’t even know anymore.
Okay, it’s not avant-garde or new, but androgyny has sustained appeal. Differentiating the pretty girls from the clever girls, it expresses true beauty sans dangly earrings, feathered hair and St Tropez.
Peter Lindbergh, one of the most revered fashion photographers in the world, has been an exponent of androgynous style since the late 1970′s. Away from the flagrant sexiness of arched backs, pouts and crawlings in sand, he captures the essence of his subjects beauty in a frown, a slouch, a smile.
