Andrej Pejic – boy meets girl

Pejic models menswear. And womenswear. Reads Tolstoy. Was just voted the 98th sexiest woman in the world. But is a bloke. Luke Leitch meets him
Andrej Pejic
Andrej Pejic
JOHN PAUL PIETRUS

Andrej Pejic is a gorgeous young man who looks like a gorgeous young woman. That he has finely feminine features is unmissable enough from the many fashion shoots that have made him famous, but up close, in person, even the tiniest details are ladylike. His skin is soft, glowing and delicate, unblemished by stubble. And his eyelashes are so flappily lustrous that I say they must surely be falsies. Outraged, their owner denies it in a broad Australian twang: “No! No! And I don’t think I even have any mascara on them today. What can I say? It’s a gift.”

In the fashion world – where he first emerged modelling menswear at the men’s shows last summer, then womenswear at the next set of men’s