Alpha Male Models
Author: NinaThe alpha male appears to be back on our catwalks after years on downsizing male models going for thinner, lankier and even androgynous looking boys, real men of porn star proportions that were used in the 1990’s by fashion houses to parade their clothes on the catwalks, are back.
But real men are back (yipee!) with models for Ungaro at Paris fashion week actually having ‘muscles’ and what could really be termed a ‘physique’.
Hedi Sliman, from 1999 to 2006 revolutionised menswear at Dior with narrow suits and slim cigarette pants. He created what soon became an obsession with the boyish, skinny, sometimes sexually-ambigous silhouette.
But now we are seeing a turnaround. At BananasMambo, top Parisian male model agency, manager Patricia Cadiou-Diehl has reported that for the first time in years she was being asked for models aged between 25 and 30, or who at least look 25. They used to receive requests for 17 years olds with androgynous beauty, hyper thin and hyper lanky. But there has been a shift, models are now more often required to be a size 48 suit size which is closer to life than the size 46’s who have recently been seen strutting men’s catwalks.
