LGBT fashion designers
Gucci wants to sell you gifts for “Her,” ‘Him,” and “Them.” But the brand will not say if non-binary or trans people were involved in the gift guide selection process.
At Fashion Week, Christian Siriano celebrated the power of art; Telfar revealed a theme of migration; No Sesso celebrated gender fluidity, and Taoray Wang was all about Colette.
Chinese designer Xiaojuan Yang nearly missed her NYFW debut amid a messy visa process and the tariff war. Meanwhile, DapperQ celebrated diversity and redefined beauty.
Monday’s celebrity-packed Met Gala summed up what ‘camp’ now means: glitter, feathers, excess. The exhibit the gala was celebrating makes the same, LGBT-culture ignoring mistake.
The designer Tommy Nutter, who died of AIDS, reminds the author of the cultural figures who also died of the disease—not forgotten, but not remembered as well as they should be.
At NYFW, Badgley Mischka and Zac Posen showed glamour and occasional edge. Jil Sander imagined a historical heroine, while Claudia Li majored in magic.