Casey Legler

Casey Legler isn’t your typical high-fashion model. In an industry in which most start their career at age 16, the Ford model was signed to one of the world’s top agencies at 35. She had a pretty good reason for the late start: Legler was a little busy training and competing as a swimmer for the French Olympic team. But most unconventional of all, Legler is a woman working as a male model.

“I was put in men’s clothes because I fit in men’s clothes,” Legler told the Australian Broadcasting Corportation in a video posted this week. “The only thing that’s particularly unique is that I’m biologically a woman.” She says stylists and designers “were familiar with dressing girls, but they weren’t expecting me. The idea of taking my picture became like, ‘Do we put her in men’s clothes?’ ” Legler has since modeled men’s blazers, vests, jackets, pants, and hats in Vogue editorial spreads, print campaigns for All Saints and Diesel, and on the runway. But it took the experience of discrimination in the sports world to turn Legler toward fashion.

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