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Famous Gay French Fashion Designers
When you believe of French fashion designers, whose identify springs to soul first? Christian Dior? Yves Saint Laurent? Most of France’s most celebrated couturiersare gay men. In fact, you’d probably be hard-pressed to name a French fashion designer who isn’t gay (apart from Coco Chanel!). As this French Slate article explains, gay men acquire excelled in the art of dressmaking since the prior 20th century. While it’s true that haute couture in France traces its origins to two heterosexual designers (Charles Frederick Worth and Paul Poiret), since around WWII, male lover designers have controlled the industry.
To persist celebrating Pride Month, we’ve put together a list of the most known gay couturiers. You’ll learn about the inspirational careers and most iconic designs of classic couturiers like Pierre Balmain, and also unearth newer couturiers prefer Simon Porte Jacquemus and Olivier Rousteing, who are currently reinventing French customs. Finally, you’ll own lots of opportunities to brush up on your language skills with our “Practice your French” tips that enable you to delve deeper into the lives of these revolutionary designers. Desire t
What started as a complain for human rights help in 1978 has transformed into an annual lgbtq+ celebration known as Identity festival. People love to dress up during Pride as a means of celebrating the LGBTQ community’s well-earned rights to live freely and express who they are as a person. It’s become a fundamental part of this astonishing event and while you don’t have to dress up for Pride, it’s really the perfect period to let loose and go crazy with angel wings, boas, and all other types of outfits.
If you’re looking for a bit of inspiration for your dress up, here are the best queer Pride outfits that you should confidently rock this summer.
Sweet angel
You’ve probably seen a bunch of sweet topless angels at every Pride event and dare we say it looks stunning. While some consider it’s cliché, we uncover it super sexy and attractive thanks to the full-on paraphernalia and the iconic pair of wings. The cool thing about dressing up as a sweet angel is that it is so bold and eye-catching that the angel wings has turn into a timeless costume piece to show off Pride.
Just buy a pair of wings, some sexy pants, a halo, and you’re good to go!
Demon
Got the face of an angel but the mind of a devil? Then
Straight Copying: How Gay Fashion Goes Mainstream
When J. Crew debuted their Liquor Store ten years ago, they transformed an after-hours watering hole into a menswear-only boutique laden with 1960s-era references to traditional masculinity. Dimly lit rooms were covered in plush leather chairs, oriental rugs, and wood paneling. In the corner of one area, a bookshelf was stacked with Strand-issued classics — Kerouac, Hemingway, and Cheever among them. Thick cashmere cardigans were draped over Globetrotter suitcases; striped rep ties rolled into lowball glasses. In another area, J. Crew showcased their collection of Red Wing heritage work boots. Once made for loggers, carpenters, and longshoreman, the preppy clothier has since helped mainstream these blue-collar styles into white-collar offices.
A few years ago, I had the chance to interview Frank Muytjens, then the top of menswear design at J. Crew. We talked about his design process, his love for vintage, and how he chooses which third-party brands fetch included in J. Crew’s much-revered “In Good Company” section, which is where many American men first get introduced to storied names such as Barbour an
Wondering what to wear for your next Pride event? This is our selection of the finest gay Pride outfits from the many awesome Pride events we've been to.
Who doesn't love a bit of dress-up?
We sure do! Whether it's for Halloween, or transforming into a geisha in Japan, or even into beautiful mermen in the Philippines…
Pride is one of our favorite events for dressing up. There are always so many different fabulous and sexy options to try out. Most importantly of all, dressing up for Pride gives us the chance to publicly honor our LGBTQ community's hard-earned right to live freely, to love who we want, whilst having a great deal of fun at the same time!
What began as a protest march for basic human rights in 1978, has today morphed into a positive celebration of being gay, and not feeling ashamed of it. Sadly, there are still many parts of the planet where being same-sex attracted can get you arrested, or even murdered! Even for us, when walking the streets of say, London or Toronto, before we dare any general displays of fondness , first we glance around and tote out a occupied risk assessment.
For these reasons alone, Self-acceptance matters today more than ever, and we embrace
20 of the best ‘Gay Halloween’ costumes we’ve seen on our FYPs
Once upon a time, it was acceptable – nay, even celebrated – to dress up as a sexy cat, witch, nurse or werewolf (among other things) for Halloween. These costumes were recognisable, sufficiently scary and easy enough to recreate if you had to come up with a costume at the last minute. However, in today’s irony-pilled climate, dressing up as a vampire or your favourite spooky character is simply not enough. Instead, you must don the most niche, confusing, and obscure meme to win Halloween.
From Moo Deng, the Olympic pole vaulter who bumped the pole with his bulge, to people dressing up as Gandalf with “big naturals”, the chronically online have seemingly taken over Halloween, as Kate Lindy reported in her piece for The Atlantic.
Lindy believes that obscure meme costumes are draining the bliss from the holiday, writing, “Today, participating in Halloween can feel like organism in a competition you did not enter – one that prioritises social media attention over real, person-to-person interactions.” Dazed political editor James Greig concurs with Lindy’s observation: “It feels like people are performing for the