The challenge for Dove is that her "masculine of center" appearance could potentially ward off commercial brands because, "I look like what we have taught society a lesbian looks like. This casting opened the door for Dove to model menswear for Calvin Klein, and she continues to straddle both worlds as a gender-fluid model for both mens and women's wear. Dove didn't believe in herself at the time, but since she lost the bet, she had no choice but to go to an open casting call. She lost a bet on a Cleveland Browns football game to a friend of hers, who was trying to encourage her to become a model. As a student of genetic engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles, Dove didn't come into the modeling world through any traditional routes. Sitting at the end of a conference room table, Dove laughs, holding her cap, and says, "I'm determined that In-N-Out is going to have something of theirs in a gay publication, and there's nothing they can do about it."ĭove was joking about the West Coast burger chain's homespun, Christian (and rumored antigay) values, an esoteric fact one might not assume a model - who has helped sell both men and women's clothing for designers including Calvin Klein - would be privy to. Rain Dove, the 6-foot 2-inch androgynous model, walks into The Advocate's offices in Los Angeles wearing an In-N-Out white paper hat, denim jeans, high-top sneakers, a pink printed button-up shirt, and a designer leather jacket that was given to her by designer Loris Diran when she walked in his show back in July for Men's New York Fashion Week.
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