Clothes Women: It’s Exciting To See How A Ruffle Moves On A Male Body
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Raquel Laneri is a writer and editor in Brooklyn.
Well, you know, you could, By the way I said.
Like most old NYC apartments, hot summer days have officially arrived in NY, and our apartment which, has no air conditioning felt like a swamp. Though I knew my husband a formidable 6’1” man with a full beard will probably never wrap himself in a sarong or don a breezy caftan, Know what guys, I wasn’t entirely kidding. Anyway, while he struggled with a necktie before intending to a Christening Sunday morning, I wish I could wear a dress, my husband sighed with envy as I breezed through our bedroom in a diaphanous cotton frock.
Same with Baja East, that designers John Targon and Scott Studenberg started after hearing so the majority of their female friends inquire about their clothing.
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It will take on the attitude of who’s wearing it, says Targon. Of course, we’re rebelling against the tailored shirt and the designer dress, says Targon of their fluid silk trenches and voluminous cashmeres. It’s a well-known fact that the ‘gender neutral’ garment can actually enhance the wearer’s individuality, instead of making everyone look similar. It’s made for you. It’s exciting to see how a ruffle moves on a male body. Fact, anderson, unlike Hourani or Targon and Studenberg, has separate menswear and womenswear lines, yet a ‘splatter painted’ tunic from one line can easily end up in the other. These sources of tension exploring different forms on different body shapes make fashion, Katherine Bernard, a writer for Vogue.com.
His clothes, for men and women, play with the idea of traditionally feminine details, similar to ruffles, juxtaposed with ugh fabrics like leather or suede.
Just as women have taken up oxfords and flat shoes, men are also incorporating previously female garments into their wardrobe.
Or Marc Jacobs, who for an ideal year was hardly seen in something aside from a Comme des Garcons kilt; or A $ AP Rocky, who has taken to wearing skirts by his friends at Hood by Air, Take Kanye West, who wore a floral Celine tunic to Coachella a few years back. With that said, unlike, say, Pierre Cardin or Rudi Gernreich whose experiments with unisex dressing in the 1960s and ’70s had a radical, political edge designers just like Targon and Studenberg and Hood by Air’s Shayne Oliver are merely creating clothes that fit the lifestyles of the increasingly diverse people who wear them.
Which is a reason why so loads of these designers chafe at the term unisex or postgender.
Even the Olsen Twins’ uberladylike The Row swaddled its models in ‘body obscuring’ cowl necked sweaters and capes, worn with super roomy trousers, that you could imagine a number of guys appreciating, NY Fashion Week in February, cult streetwear label Hood by Air featured models whose genders were a mystery, thanks to ‘long haired’ wigs and unisex ‘leatherlaced’ bomber jackets, zipperfestooned jeans, and, yes, skirts and tunics.
Recently, young designers have taken this concept to another level. Baja East had its girls and boys switch clothes halfway through its presentation. For Hourani, that means crisp whitecollared shirts, grey leather shorts, and minimalist structured blackish jackets in interesting shapes. That’s what Rad Hourani had in mind when he launched his graphic, crisp, almost ‘monastic looking’ unisex haute couture seven years ago. On p of that, we have enough limitations in lifetime. Furthermore, men wore makeup and wigs and heels, if you look at history. Something that reflects the way I look for to live and dress today. Whenever something that is free there are all ‘manmade’ constructs, I realized that I don’t think of people looking at the gender or age or race or nationality, the Parisbased designer says. And now here is a question. Who decided that a woman has to have makeup and a man not?
