Who Is The Ultimate Style Game Changer?

HuffPost's Game Changers series celebrates 100 innovators, visionaries, and leaders in 12 categories who, whether working in the spotlight or under the radar, are changing how we look at the world and the way we live in it. We salute them for their willingness to take risks and question the status quo.

Below, check out the nominees for HuffPost's 2011 Game Changers in Style.

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Andrej Pejic

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Changed the game by: Bringing gender-fluidity to fashion. The svelte, androgynous model Andrej Pejic rose to fashion fame this year, landing on major runways and magazine covers and causing double-takes every time. He was photographed by Steven Meisel, became the face of Marc by Marc Jacob's Spring/Summer 2011 campaign and showed up shirtless on the cover of New York. His second shirtless appearance on the Dossier Journal caused controversy when distributors for Barnes & Noble requested the issue be polybagged. Born in Tuzla, Bosnia-Herzegovina, to a Serbian mother and Croatian father, Pejic's family fled to Australia during the Balkan conflict. Pejic came to realize he was different at an early age. "As a kid, you get to the stage where you realize the gender barriers that exist in society and what you're supposed to do and not supposed to do," he told the Telegraph. "But now I'm comfortable in my skin, and for my look to be celebrated is great." Jean Paul Gaultier not only booked Pejic for his Spring 2011 men's show, but also cast the model in his Paris couture show, sending Pejic down the runway in a wedding dress. With his gender bending beauty, Pejic marks a significant shift in the fashion industry -- from the outsized male/female dichotomy that has ruled imagemaking over the past decade (think: Kim Kardashian on the cover of W, the men in "300") to a more fluid and experimental sensuality. He said it: "Fashion is quite inclusive and good at embracing different things and different forms of beauty. It's a very liberal industry. You can be yourself. Just not overweight." Must-click: Pejic's agency page (Photo Credit: Getty Images)

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Changed the game by: Bringing gender-fluidity to fashion.

The svelte, androgynous model Andrej Pejic rose to fashion fame this year, landing on major runways and magazine covers and causing double-takes every time. He was photographed by Steven Meisel, became the face of Marc by Marc Jacob's Spring/Summer 2011 campaign and showed up shirtless on the cover of New York. His second shirtless appearance on the Dossier Journal caused controversy when distributors for Barnes & Noble requested the issue be polybagged. Born in Tuzla, Bosnia-Herzegovina, to a Serbian mother and Croatian father, Pejic's family fled to Australia during the Balkan conflict. Pejic came to realize he was different at an early age. "As a kid, you get to the stage where you realize the gender barriers that exist in society and what you're supposed to do and not supposed to do," he told the Telegraph. "But now I'm comfortable in my skin, and for my look to be celebrated is great." Jean Paul Gaultier not only booked Pejic for his Spring 2011 men's show, but also cast the model in his Paris couture show, sending Pejic down the runway in a wedding dress. With his gender bending beauty, Pejic marks a significant shift in the fashion industry -- from the outsized male/female dichotomy that has ruled imagemaking over the past decade (think: Kim Kardashian on the cover of W, the men in "300") to a more fluid and experimental sensuality.

He said it: "Fashion is quite inclusive and good at embracing different things and different forms of beauty. It's a very liberal industry. You can be yourself. Just not overweight."

Must-click: Pejic's agency page

(Photo Credit: Getty Images)

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[Darren Christman]

06:26 PM on 10/18/2011

Fashion's a joke and a distraction.

[Darren Christman]

06:25 PM on 10/18/2011

CarineRotfield looks like something the proverbialCat draged in! God!

[Darren Christman]

06:24 PM on 10/18/2011

RachelZoe looks really reallyUgly.

[Trilby]

04:40 PM on 10/18/2011

Is Carine Roitfeld a style "Game-changer" for being quite, um, kind of scary?

[Darren Christman]

06:26 PM on 10/18/2011

she looks like something the CatDraged in

[Red Russet]

05:50 PM on 10/16/2011

It would seem that a game changer in the fashion world would be the designer, not the model.

[Costanza 2012]

12:28 PM on 10/13/2011

How can you be a "Game Changer" in style? If you are attractive and wear someone else's clothes well? Ambiguous Andrej is merely the flavor of the moment, whose shock value was worth the risk for some big name designers. IMO, if anyone is a Style "Game Changer" it should be Nancy Upton who single-handedly made a mockery of American Apparel's Plus Size Model contest.

[cornel]

12:03 PM on 10/05/2011

For me the real game changer in style is the Lebanese Moe Khadra [ http://www.coroflot.com/mokfashion/mok-aw-2011-2012/1 ]

[SkylerSweet]

04:53 PM on 10/04/2011

I vote for Andrej Pejic. He is incredibly sexy in an unconventional way which will become part of the convention the more we see the break down of gender roles and stereotypes.

And to the other commenters, Get off your hate wagon. If you don't like it then go comment on something you do like. If you don't think this is important then go voice your opinion with the people that are making the change you wish to see in the world. Life is short, Andrej Pejic is beautiful and you have to opportunity to make positive change if you lose your own self hatred.

[Larry Aleshire]

01:07 PM on 10/04/2011

any of the wall street protesters gets my vote. for me it is the "who cares" about cultural game changers when there is so much more affecting the country that needs to be addressed....

[ChefLito]

01:02 PM on 10/04/2011

Andrej said "You can be yourself. Just not overweight"
Even for androgynous men, weight remains an obsession. I guess Andrej is really not that different, not really a game changer. He maybe able to put a man and a woman's clothes with the same flair, but he's just another thin model that designers can "redesign" to fit his/her clothes. If designers only try, I am sure they can do the same with other thin models, with a little makeup and extra wig/hair extension.

[lth66]

08:45 PM on 10/03/2011

Diaper changers?

[Aitch Cee S]

03:33 PM on 10/02/2011

Zoe and Carine with the bad over-processed long stringy hair in the face. I hate that!

[Samantha Fox]

05:40 AM on 10/02/2011

I vote Andrej Pejic.... look at him.... I feel....I will.... confidence to express myself ....like him!!!! Smile....

[Gabriella Tonini Skirvin]

12:23 PM on 09/30/2011

I don't get it : is he a man in drag ? What is the point of wearing women's clothes ?

[tyrant510]

12:42 PM on 10/19/2011

we all should wear what we like.