The topic of discsn today revolv around the mon misnceptn that all male fashn signers are gay. As you know, there are a number of gay men who play a part the fashn dtry,...
Contents:
- NEW YORK FASHN EXHIB EXAM THE FLUENCE OF GAY SIGNERS
- WHY ARE MALE FASHN DIGNERS GAY
- WHY PEOPLE PERCEIVE THAT MALE FASHN DIGNERS ARE GAY
NEW YORK FASHN EXHIB EXAM THE FLUENCE OF GAY SIGNERS
Male Fashn Digners Gay – For a lot of people, gay fashn signers are an unfaiar topic. But that don’t mean they’re not out there, workg behd the scen to create fashn that will be seen by more people than ever before. In this blog post, we will explore the history of male fashn signers and… * homosexual fashion designers *
But one notn remas stubbornly unchanged om cy to cy, year to stereotype of the gay signer is so eply graed the culture that is often assumed to be a fact. Whether dtry sir or sual observer, people often prume that a male signer is gay until he announc himself otherwise. And while there are a host of succsful, brand-name women the dtry, lser-known on have gone on rerd about feelg disadvantaged bee of cisn makers’ subnsc belief that gay men make better are no statistics about the numbers of gay men the fashn dtry.
And, as fashn historian Valerie Steele once noted, “there is no gay gene for creativy.
WHY ARE MALE FASHN DIGNERS GAY
” But the fashn dtry has been unniably more welg of openly gay men than other fields have no one the mastream has ever tried to exame the impact of homosexualy on fashn, says Steele, who is director and chief curator of the Mm at the Fashn Instute of Technology (FIT) New York. “It had only been done LGBT centers, and had only foced on gay imagery fashn.
“Gays and lbians had been hidn om [fashn] history. Steele and -curator Fred Dennis spent two years rearchg the extent to which gay men and lbians worked the fashn dtry and the ways which their participatn shaped athetics. By far, however, gay men received the bulk of the exhibn's exhibn's most poignant moment — and certaly s ripped-om-the-headl one — is when acknowledg the mise of the Defense of Marriage Act.
WHY PEOPLE PERCEIVE THAT MALE FASHN DIGNERS ARE GAY
The fact that a muny’s journey om red velvet cloaks worn the shadows, to leather harns worn prott, to transparent troers worn fiance fally to rt on bs sus that would not be out of place if worn on Capol Hill is ttament to the power and reach of fashn self and the fluence that gay men and women have had on exhibn begs the 18th century, when both men and women drsed to reflect their place styled themselv to display power and wealth. The workg-class, tough-guy stumg — cut-off nim, work boots, leather chaps — signaled the start of the morn gay rights 21st century brought gay men who were craftg tradnal styl yet assemblg them wh more glamour and greater sex appeal.
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