{"id":125531,"date":"2019-09-23T09:30:19","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T13:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/?p=125531"},"modified":"2019-09-23T14:00:55","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T18:00:55","slug":"finn-buchanan-doesnt-owe-you-an-explanation-on-gender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/finn-buchanan-doesnt-owe-you-an-explanation-on-gender\/","title":{"rendered":"Finn Buchanan doesn’t owe you an explanation on gender"},"content":{"rendered":"

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After a stellar debut at Miu Miu<\/a> last year Finn Buchanan<\/a>, with his now-signature blonde buzzcut grown out into a hot-pink mohawk, made history as the first openly trans man to walk a Celine show. Since then, the British teen has caught the attention of Nick Knight, John Galliano, Harley Weir, and Marc Jacobs all drawn to his limitation-breaking personage and boyishly aloof persona. After coming into Models.com offices, we started off discussing New York’s sweltering summer heat and then dove right into a conversation on his success so far, staying grounded, and gender explanation fatigue – here’s what Finn left us with. <\/p>\n

Interview by Rashad Benton<\/a> | Edited by Irene Ojo-Felix<\/p>\n

Let’s revisit your past. Do you remember your first show & how you felt? What were you thinking the moment you walked out from behind the curtain? <\/strong>
\nMy first major show was Miu Miu and it was intense in the best way possible. I mean I even hid in the bathroom for about half an hour because Miuccia Prada and Naomi Campbell were there and I needed a moment to take it all in. Truthfully, when I walked from behind the curtain onto the runway my mind just went blank and there, I was walking with this suitcase in one hand and all I could think was “I’m going to hit people with this” and I did. I was also thinking to myself “don’t look down, don’t look down” because you don’t want your photos to be off for the photographers. It was “Don’t fuck up”, but there are endless things you can do to fuck up and that’s the difficult part about it. <\/p>\n

How’d you feel afterward? Did you cry or were you just in total disbelief of what you had just accomplished?<\/strong>
\nNeither! After the finale, we all went backstage and everyone was so nonchalant about what had just taken place. Maybe it wasn’t anyone else’s first big show but they were acting as if it was no big deal like we had just gone to the store or something extremely regular. There was so much casualness to the rest of the models and in my head, I was like “okay I guess this isn’t a big deal”. I played it cool, grabbed some pizza and ended up going to the Eiffel Tower. <\/p>\n

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