Here’s some good news to take you into the weekend: Diesel has just partnered with a German company called “About You” and hired two trans fashion models. Their names are Benjamin Melzer and Loiza Lamers, and they are just about as chic as they come:
Lamers was last seen on the Dutch version of Next Top Model, where she walked away with the grand prize last year. Melzer was on the cover of Men’s Health in Europe, and revealed that Diesel reached out just as he and Lamers were planning a visibility campaign for trans models.
Here in the US, Men’s Health came sooooo close to having a trans man on its cover with Adrian Dowling — but readers weren’t having it and voted for the cis guy instead. Oh well. Maybe some day America will catch up to Europeans.
Both models seem pretty excited about the gig, writing on Instagram: “Proud to represent who we are and what we do.”
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For now, it’s a little unclear where their images will actually show up — will they just be on Diesel’s European materials, or will they make it to the US as well? We’ll just have to see.
Xzamilloh
Was Laith Ashley busy or something? This guy looks average as hell for a model.
IDoNotHaveToAgreeWithYou
Desperate gimmick by a brand no one buys anymore.
CaliKyle
@Xzamilloh: Laith Ashley is a total butterface (butHISface, pardon me) – the trans boy in this article is at least attractive in a boy next door way. Although gotta give props to both the aforementioned for being totally unclockable.
Xzamilloh
@CaliKyle: Butterface?? LIES, LIES, and MORE LIES!!! What’s your stage name, Lies-a Minnelli??? What’s your favorite scary movie, The Hills Have LIES??? It’s like I’m reading your tombstone, because here LIES CaliKyle
“Butterface”… I’ll “butt” your “erface”
Jack Meoff
Awesome to see this happening and good on the Diesel brand for for raising awareness. I hope the US use these images instead of insisting on cis gender shots for their market. So backward in so many ways.
Danny279
It’s just gross to celebrate mental illness & to put a positive spin on Amy (aka “Aydian”) Dowling who seems to go from one low-level media stunt to another in a desperate attempt to get people to affirm her delusion of manhood. Meanwhile, a trans activist named Dana Rivers murdered an entire lesbian family in Oakland, CA and Queerty refuses to post one word about it. It’s a blatant example of how “LGBT” requires that we censor and distort reality to block out inconvenient facts and how “LGBT” demeans and devalues the lives of LGB people.
Blackout
So cute these F@gs with a Trans obsession!
Arconcyyon
One Trans girls and One Trans Boy !!!! sorry ant´s the male is famele sex gay pink gay ….beautiflying sucesss .
Arconcyyon
Live the heterossex day and day eyar´s !!! oky .
ErikO
@Jack Meoff: People still buy these overpriced silly clothes?
Louis
Both are gorgeous and once again I see more intolerant and prejudiced statements making lgbt people look like utter fools and complete hypocrites.
So tired of the double standards in this community .
Trans is beautiful.
Louis
@Danny279: I just read a link about this horrific act and Im in shock its heartbreaking and shocking and I feel so much for the victims and their families at this extremely difficult time.
However that being said you cant use acts like this as a way to make a blanket statement about and against all Transgender Americans this act defined this woman but it did not define the entire transgender community please find a way to differentiate between what this woman did and what other transgender americans do in this world as in simply try to live their lives as everyone else does.