Albino Model Stephen Thompson Dresses Up As David Bowie (PHOTOS)

Though fashion pays a lot of lip service to the idea of diversity, the majority of successful models remain white, stick-thin and female, and it still makes news when Halle Berry lands the cover of Vogue's September issue (she was the first black woman to do so since Naomi Campbell in 1989).

So it was heartening and actually interesting when Givenchy featured albino model Stephen Thompson in their Spring 2011 campaign. And now Thompson is taking another turn in Ammo Magazine as David Bowie. We're not sure we fully see the concept, but we like the pictures.

Photography by Bryan Taylor Johnson and styling by Javon Drake

Comments

[RosslynRose]

09:25 AM on 02/07/2011

Striking and gorgeous man.

[DMSmith]

11:11 PM on 02/06/2011

He's gorgeous! Also, sounds like an interesting guy. Nice combination indeed.

[littlebrowngirl]

08:30 PM on 02/06/2011

Handsome.

[coblstone]

02:00 PM on 02/05/2011

Gisele should tell this model that 'Sunscreen is Poison'

[ethiopia1a]

02:58 PM on 02/04/2011

i thought he was just old model lol

[Andra Claudia Garcia]

12:34 AM on 02/04/2011

i wish i was albino

[afgail]

04:10 PM on 02/03/2011

Ehh!

[pcplz]

03:49 PM on 02/03/2011

Lose the beard!!

[CocoAnn]

03:39 PM on 02/03/2011

What does "Though fashion pays a lot of lip service to the idea of diversity, the majority of successful models remain white" mean? The model's skin is still white and I don't see why the article called it "heartening and actually interesting"?? As per the model, he sure is beautiful...

[arthurb3]

03:33 PM on 02/03/2011

Hair looks like a rats nest. Beards are just dirty and lazy.

[Andrew Shapter]

04:06 PM on 02/03/2011

...and natural too. how dare we let our natural side show huh?

you would have just hated the 60's 70's. Beards everywhere, Eww!

[topkatnc]

08:53 PM on 02/03/2011

It was great being a teenager in the late 60's and 70's .. the music and the clothes .. I wouldn't trade it for anything ...

[roblabrousse]

10:29 AM on 02/04/2011

My word doesn't someone have a trove of nasty comments. Beards don't have a mind for starters. But you are entitled to your peephole vision of things. Hope you remember to shave all your body hair away ...wouldn't want any vermin crawling about..if you know what I mean.

[MiBFTo]

03:18 PM on 02/03/2011

He's a striking man, but he's not albino. He's just very, very fair.

[nermz345]

04:23 PM on 02/03/2011

i was about to say the same thing

[topkatnc]

08:56 PM on 02/03/2011

I wonder why he bills himself as that ...

[Demidan]

02:41 PM on 02/03/2011

Not quite albino, his eyes have pigment.

[LeftLeanWing]

09:05 PM on 02/03/2011

Contacts...

[chiodo08]

02:29 PM on 02/03/2011

Albinos are cool...

[Antoinette Anderson]

02:19 PM on 02/03/2011

Beautiful.

[jaredbrain]

02:17 PM on 02/03/2011

Mugato!!!