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Last season Givenchy's Riccardo Tisci made waves by casting Lea T., a transgender model, in his campaign. Next season, Tisci's cast Stephen Thompson, an albino model. According to WWD, "Tisci explained that he’s long admired albino people, reflected in the pale flesh tones that are recurrent in his fashions. “They’re very near my world,” he enthused." [WWD]