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		<title>Balance: Held Together by a Feather</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Artist Maedir Eugster usually performs his balancing act in front of a crowd under spectacular, colored lights with the Rigolo Swiss Nouveau Cirque.  But when photographer Tobias Hutzler saw the performance, he visualized a different approach. Hutzler’s work often takes him to the deserts of the southwest United States, where he uses the landscape as a canvas. For the “Balance” shoot, he aimed to create that atmosphere in a studio. With the theatrics shorn away, the camera hones in on Eugster’s focus and tension as he creates a sculpture predicated on the balance of a single feather. “I’m really interested in temporary sculptures,&#8221; said Hutzler. &#8220;I thought it was important to have an overview of the scenery, but also very close up to see the tension that is building up in the fingers. The energy is transformed from the artist’s body into an artwork. It&#8217;s almost a zen moment.&#8221;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=style.time.com&#038;blog=39651711&#038;post=2368236&#038;subd=timestylelife&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Male Models: The Female of the Species</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2012 13:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valerie Lapinski</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Casey Legler is a woman working as a male model. She looks wonderfully comfortable shrugging into tailored suits and chomping on cigars. But assigning words to the experience isn’t as easy. In an interview in her New York City studio, Legler steers around phrases like “gender identity” and “gender expression&#8221; in favor of having a conversation about freedom. “I understand signifiers. We’re social creatures and we have a physical language of communicating with each other,” she says. “But it would be a really beautiful thing if we could all just wear what we wanted, without it meaning something.” Androgyny has long been celebrated in the fashion world. Women have modeled as men, and men have modeled as women. Andrej Pejic, a young male model from Bosnia, made a splash in recent years with his feminine beauty and knack for wearing women’s clothes. (“Andrej is gorgeous,” Legler says. “In many ways, I come ushered in by that.”) But it’s still rare — if not unheard of — for a woman to sign a contract to model men’s clothing exclusively. Legler landed the modeling gig this summer when her friend, the photographer Cass Bird, invited her at the last minute to participate in the role of a man for a photo shoot for Muse magazine. The photos were shared with an agent at Ford Models, and the next day, Legler was invited to sign a contract to work exclusively from their male roster. “This is a unique little moment that fashion is allowing to have happen,” Legler says. Her own relationship with fashion has always been complex. At age 13, she had already almost reached her full height (6 ft. 2 in.) and began swimming competitively in her home country of France. “It really was just something that I happened to be good at,” Legler says. “My fantasy was always to be able to sit by the pool deck, preferably in a pink tutu, reading a book.” When she qualified for the Olympic Games in Atlanta at age 18, Legler got together with some of<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=style.time.com&#038;blog=39651711&#038;post=2363270&#038;subd=timestylelife&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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