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Sailors is – or rather, was – a sultry blonde who was signed by the prestigious Ford Models and fronted a Bacardi campaign. Now, she’s ditched the swimsuit and long locks for flannels and a short, spiky haircut. That’s because Sailors has decided she wants to model as a man.

Almost a year ago, Sailors decided to leave Ford Models in search for a new agency that would represent her as both a female and male model. But unlike other androgynous, gender-bending models including Andrej Pejic, Casey Legler, or Lea T, Sailors does not identify with the opposite sex other than when she is behind the camera. Her movement into the male realm, she claims, is solely career-based rather than sexuality. She thinks that modeling as a man will create more opportunities and earn her more money.

“It was a while ago that I first had the idea,” Sailors tells The Daily Beast of her decision to begin modeling as a man. “It wasn’t until I saw [transgender model] Andrej Pejic in 2011 – not in person, in a photograph – I was just so inspired. I think he’s beautiful. So initially I tried to do it with my long blonde hair. I was like ‘I have long blonde hair too, we can both do it.’ But it didn’t work for me that way.” On October 1, 2012, Sailors decided it was time to cut off all of her hair. “I decided to move full-force ahead and do it all the way. Well, not all the way, I’m not transitioning, but in terms of appearance.”

Sailors makes it clear numerous times that she is no way transgender. Despite her appearance – and her fledgling career in the male modeling industry – she emphasizes that she is married to a man and that the only physical changes she has undergone have been cutting her hair and wrapping her breasts in order to appear flat-chested. With her thick eyebrows and defined cheek bones, however, Sailors’s androgynous look seems to allow for an easy transition. With the right amount of make-up and styling, Sailor believes she can be whichever gender she is hired to be.

In an industry dominated by youthfulness and looks, Sailors’s decision to start a new chapter of her career at this point of her life is an interesting one. “For me initially, it was really about the fact that I would lose the clients that I already had,” she says. “Obviously in modeling you’re booked on the way you look. Those clients are physically looking for that long blonde hair, so my fear was more about how it would affect my job. Emotionally, when I finally did it, I didn’t know what would happen. It was really stepping into the unknown, because it was bigger than just a haircut. And it’s bigger than just a career move. It’s also the whole presentation of how people see me.”

Although Sailors has lost clients since she’s made the physical transition, making the move into the male modeling realm is, as she sees it, a way to grow her career. While male models are known to make smaller salaries than their female counterparts, Sailors feels the male-modeling industry is more accepting. (She describes it as “very bro-ish, but in a good way.”) The competition of being a female supermodel is less competitive for male models, which she says will create a more equal playing field.

“It is true that men make less than women do,” Sailors says. “I knew that even before I cut my hair, it’s not news to me. I knew that was part of the risk I was taking, but at the same time I know people have used the word supermodel in relation to me, but I’ve certainly never claimed to be a supermodel. I know I hadn’t achieved that kind of status within the industry anyway. You can still make a lot of money without people knowing who you are.”

But now, people certainly know who Eliott Sailors is. The New York Post profiled Sailors, emphasizing her “success as a male model,” while Jezebel even went as far as to ask, “Will this willingness to think outside of the box when it comes to what's ‘fashionable’ eventually extend to seeing more ethnic diversity and more plus size models in fashion?” looking at Sailors as a pioneer in the field alongside Pejic and Legler.

“It’s bigger than just a career move. It’s also the whole presentation of how people see me.”

Others, however, have been less responsive to Sailors’s “transformation.” Slate’s Katy Waldman wrote, “While Sailors may be smartly taking advantage of androgyny’s current chicness in the fashion world, her stunt is at best a canny career move, and at worst slightly insensitive to trans people. She continued: “To appropriate the trans/transition narrative when really all you intend to do is playact a different gender for the camera is just silly. Cut it out.”

Regardless of the mixed reviews, Sailors reflects on her decision as a smart move. And in terms of reinventing herself, it seems that Sailors definitely has that on lock. "There are those that have their concerns, maybe on my behalf," Sailors said. "We don’t always know offhand the best move to make career-wise, but [it seems] everyone is excited about In a world of fashion that has been dominated by women--from the British Twiggy of the 1960s to the multi-ethnic Naomi Campbell of today--Tyson Beckford was not only the first black male "supermodel," he was the first male supermodel. As Scott Poulson-Bryant wrote in Vibe, "Fabulous females like Christy [Turlington], Linda [Evangelista] and Naomi [Campbell] used to epitomize the world of high fashion. That was until a brother bum-rushed the menswear show." In fact Beckford has become big enough that he is now primarily known as Tyson. Ralph Lauren, one of the biggest fashion designers and clothing manufacturers of the 1980s and 1990s, attributes Tyson's success to his "all-American look with a dramatic edge. He conveys power, style and intelligence in a very exciting way."

Tyson's current wealth and high visibility are not the result of a privileged background. He was born in the Bronx to parents of Jamaican descent. He points out that the exotic cast to his features comes from a Chinese grandparent. Soon after he was born, his mother took the family back to Jamaica where they stayed until he was seven. Coming back to New York City, they first lived upstate before returning to Harlem, where Tyson still maintains a residence.

Bethann Hardison, Tyson's agent, credits his mother with a large part of Tyson's success, saying that she raised him to be unusually sensitive. His mother worked for a time as a fashion model. Realizing her son's extraordinary charisma from a young age, she dragged him with her from one runway show to another. Despite his mother's influence, he was not immune to the usual tensions of growing up poor in the ghetto. Never disowning his past, he admits that he lived a wild life, sometimes running with a dangerous crowd and often courting trouble. He even spent a night in jail for stealing a car, though the charges were reduced.

Rather than hanging out all the time with the chic crowd of the international fashion world, Tyson still spends most of his increasingly rare free time with the same friends he had in the summer of 1993. It was at this time that a reporter for an influential New York City journal, The Source, asked Tyson if he would be willing to pose. Tyson was at first reluctant, not sure of what was being offered. When he was satisfied that the offer was legitimate, he made what proved to be an excellent career decision by accepting the opportunity.

Beckford's next big break was coming to the attention of Bethann Hardison, an important agent in the world of fashion. Not only does she handle talented models through her own successful agency, but she also has taken the lead in demanding the use of a more fair proportion of African Americans among models. Although in the 1990s, it is not uncommon to see black faces in catalogs and in commercials, they are still extremely under-represented when compared to the number of black readers and buyers. To help fight this, Hardison formed the Black Girls' Coalition, an organization of successful models who use their clout to demand that all black models receive a fair shake.

Hardison admits that she did not see right away what made Tyson a supermodel. She realized quickly, though, that he was a unique combination of strength, intelligence, power, and sensitivity. The best fashion photographers loved to photograph Tyson and felt his shots were great from the start. With Hardison and her agency behind him, his rise was dramatic. He appeared in the fashion section of the New York Times, in Gentleman's Quarterly--both the American and English versions--and in the Mark & Spencer Catalog, perhaps the most prestigious catalog for a male fashion model in the world.

In 1994, People named him one of the 50 most beautiful people in the world. Popular magazines do not dominate the fashion world, however; the designers do. Thus, Tyson's most prestigious accomplishment was modeling for Ralph Lauren. He was the first black man to wear Ralph Lauren clothing in the company's advertising. Beyond that, Ralph Lauren signed him to an exclusive contract worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, an unprecedented sum for a male model. The rising model had become a supermodel. He told the Source, "I haven't let anything go to my head. New York [City] keeps you grounded. If you're acting funny in the city, someone will let you know in a minute."

Even with his phenomenal success, Tyson has not forgotten his roots or the other black models still fighting for some success; any job he does not get he wants to go to another black model. He turned down a chance to work the annual Milan fashion shows one year, because he was the only black man invited from the United States. As he told Vibe, "There are so many African-American and African men who are trying to get jobs, and they weren't giving the jobs to them.... I'm not the only brother out here trying to make it. So I didn't go." This stance put him in some conflict with Hardison who felt his appearance in Milan would open doors of opportunity for himself and others. Both can see that Tyson's success will be important to aspiring black models of the future.

Tyson's discomfort with affluence and celebrity implies that he is ready for the challenges of sudden wealth and fame, even at his young age. He knows that some will be looking at him and to him as a role model. He is wise enough, though, to know that this is an unfair burden, but one he should not shoulder aside. As he told the Weekly Journal, "I just want to be looked at as a brother who's doing something positive."