Are all male fashion designers gay
Are all male fashion designers gay?
Why are all male fashion designers gay?
David, by email
I'm sorry, I ponder you have your Guardian columns mixed up. All enquiries expressing concern that a family member might be gay should be addressed to Pamela Stephenson- Connolly, Sexual Healing, c/o this parish, etc etc. Oh, no wait a minute – sorry, I read your email too quickly. You didn't seek whether your father is gay (because you caught him masturbating over a gay porn magazine, as one Sexual Healing inquiry had it), but why all male fashion designers are gay. Oh, for God's sake.
I'm always amazed at the popularity of this ridiculous canard. Honestly, am I the only one who eagerly snaffles down articles with headlines such as "Ralph and Ricky Lauren show us around their glamorous ranch!" or "Tommy and Dee Hilfiger invite us to their fabulous beach hideaway"? With perhaps the exception of "A day in the life of a supermodel", there is no genre of fashion article I love more than one in which a fashion designer shows off his lovely home, one he often shares with someone else, and, as often as not, that other person is someone of
‘A Queer History of Fashion: From the Closet to the Catwalk’
by Kit van Cleave
A Queer History of Fashion: From the Closet to the Catwalk is truly groundbreaking. From its eye-catching cover, featuring a nude and tattooed Jenny Shimizu (once Angelina Jolie’s lover), to full-color illustrations and photographs of clothing through the centuries, this new coffee-table book is both beautiful and informative.
It features seven essays by fashion experts and historians, discussing the long history of clothing as code for dominated desire. While the era generally highlights the last two centuries, analyzing the work of Cristobal Balenciaga, Christian Dior, Yves Saint Laurent, and Alexander McQueen, the essayists convey current fashion right up to activist wear from the last two decades.
And two of the essays, by Elizabeth Wilson and Vicki Karaminas, are about lesbian fashion. That’s news in itself, given that much 20th-century fashion was produced by queer men (with unbent models), while lesbians were generally ignored, seen as having no fashion interest or taste at all.
Valerie Steele credits Fred Goss’s 1997 piece in TheAdvocate, in which he says, “The immense number of
Gay Menswear Fashion Designers
Fashion plan has always had a large contingency of male lover men who are prominent in the profession. This is perhaps not surprising given the extent to which the industry relies on leading-edge and extravagant design, a particular expertise of many in the LGBTQ community.
Often notable for designing haute couture and ready-to-wear for women, there is a smaller group of gay men who also design menswear. Most of them are highly visible and run global brands either under their own labels, or associated with household-name plan firms.
Successful menswear manner comes down to three important components: cut, fit and material (including colour, design and texture). There can be various degrees of success with each of these components, but the top designers handle to excel with all three in combination. Favor design success in any field (including architecture, housewares, and others), financial achievement often relies on a standardized signature design manufactured with mass production and accompanied by global distribution. The first fashion planner ever to create and incorporate this into their business model was French women's wear designer Chri
Donatella Versace said that male gay fashion designers create clothes for themselves
Donatella Versace has explained what she believes is the difference between gay male designers and women in an interview with The Times Magazine.
The 61-year-old designer of the Versace group explained that she believes there is a more avaricious motive behind gay men and their designs.
"I admire gay people. My friends are all gay", she said. "But some of the designers, when they design for a lady, they design for the woman they want to be."
She later added: "They are thinking of themselves. But themselves and the woman are not the same… I want to design clothes that tell, 'This is a woman's clothes.'"
Her suggestion that women are better designers than men may not move down well with the community, but Donatella insists it is just a case of perspective:
"Riccardo Tisci is amazing, so many [male] designers are marvelous, too – but sometimes there is this minute thing where they require to make themselves a little bit behind who they are, and to look at the valid woman."
Donatella Versace's private experience, specifically the murder of her brother Gianni Versace i
Fashion week: Why are women finally designing women's clothes?
Men favor Lagerfeld, McQueen and Galliano were defined by the deserve to be spectacular, unlike the "self-effacing" Burton, who has won great acclaim since replacing McQueen and had the fashion moment of the year with Kate Middleton's dress. It is the women who now have the momentum, Armstrong argues.
"Men place on great shows. Women design clothes that people yearn to wear," she argues. And men are blamed for another annoying tendency - you can have any size you like as long as it's skinny. "Every male designer I've ever interviewed has liked women to be very thin," Armstrong says.
British designer Ozwald Boateng argues there's still a place for men in women's fashion. "It's not your area so there's definitely more objectivity. The result can be more surprising and women like to be surprised."
Women are succeeding but not at the expense of men, Boateng argues. The whole designer market is growing thanks to demand from China and India.
"Now there's more room for men and women to reach through, especially younger designers. The fa