Transgender model Lea T walks Alexandre Herchcovit’s Sao Paulo fashion show. The Lea T madness is a bit crazy, as the transsexual model landed in Brazil to walk Alexandre Herchcovitch’s show at Sao Paulo Fashion Week.  Our own web traffic around Lea T attests to the fact that the world is obsessed with her.

I sense the interest isn’t pure voyeurism but an awareness that something very real is happening in the expressions of sexuality and gender. With Brazil at the forefront of global influence, their views on sexuality — notably more progressive than America’s — will drive changes into the future.

Lea T is also associated with an emerging group of indy createurs. They aren’t anti-establishment or anti-fashion but notably more intellectual and values-driven than the mainstream fashion establishment. This is all part of what I call the Smart Sensuality movement.

Transgender model Lea T walks Alexandre Herchcovitch’s Sao Paulo fashion show Jan 2011Lea T, a native Brazilian was born Leandro Cerezo in Bela Horizonte Brazil in 1981. Lea began as a male model, but found successful bookings as a female. Lea T found a strong supporter in Italian designer Riccardo Tisci, who took a center stage role in Givenchy’s fall/winter 2010 collections, inspired by androgyny.