Riccardo Tisci is breaking new barriers with Givenchy's Autumn/Winter 2010-11 campaign. The designer has recruited a transgender model to appear in the ads alongside nine other male and female models. Known as Lea T. (previously Leo), the Brazillian model also happens to be Tisci's personal assistant.
"She's always been very feminine: superfragile, very aristocratic," said Tisci. "She's part of the family." He also added that it exemplifies the male-female dichotomy that has become one his design signatures.
