![]() “It’s just so not that period in time anymore,” says Marc Jacobs. ![]() Agender model Juno Mitchell walked that show too, as well as for Eckhaus Latta, Marni, Coperni, Alexander McQueen, and Marc Jacobs, where they strode side by side with Miley Cyrus-who has described herself as gender-neutral-adding to the feeling that gendered clothing is increasingly irrelevant. Models identifying as non-binary, trans men, and cis men walked alongside cis women at Valentino’s Fall 2020 womenswear show. Reed’s design philosophy takes further ideas about gender that are just starting to show up on the runways. “Fluidity offers an alternate way of being, crossing and merging masculine and feminine.” “I’d like to eradicate the categories of menswear and womenswear,” Reed says. Harris, Kiernan Shipka, and more than a million other fans. When the pandemic canceled the graduate showcase this past May, he found a way to reach an even bigger audience by creating a giant disc hat filter on Instagram, “worn” by Kaia Gerber, Jeremy O. The 24-year-old designer, who identifies as gender-fluid, outfitted Harry Styles with a world tour’s worth of lamé pussy-bow blouses and worked on Gucci’s design team, all while he was a student at the London art and design school Central Saint Martins. Harris Reed-who stands six feet nine in five-inch platform boots-dreams big. He wears a Harris Reed custom blouse, pants, and hat Harris Reed x Roker boots. I finally feel celebrated for who I am and not looked upon as a freak of nature.Harris Reed in his studio at the Standard, London. It was good for me to leave: In the gay clubs of Paris, with people from all walks of life and of all genders, I have never felt so safe and so normal, little old me, who always felt like I was different, like I didn't fit the mold. Nothing was ever eccentric enough for me and now I'm rejoicing! I'm less afraid to try out unconventional things: I wear colors, patterns and make-up that before, I would never have dared to wear. I earn my own money, I live on my own and there's none of that restraint anymore. Today I'm 18 and have moved to Paris for my studies, a vocational course in media. But what with high school and my parents, I remained restrained. I realized that I wanted to be like this mystical, unreal, exaggerated creature that looked like a painting. It awakened something in me, a real attraction for this world. There's a scene where the drag queen does a mini-show to the song "Y Crois-Tu" by Fishbach, which I love. It's about a young gay man who comes home from an evening out with a drag queen. One of them was called Masculine and was directed by Zoé Chadeau and written by Maxime Lavalle. When I was 16, my French teacher had taken us to a short film festival. 'I finally feel celebrated for who I am'īefore I shaved my hair, I'd already had my first trigger, a sort of butterfly effect, without which my life could have been totally different. I'm attracted by a personality, a smile, a laugh, no matter what a person has between their legs or which pronouns they use. I also consider myself pansexual: For me, a physical or romantic attraction happens regardless of a person's gender. People can call me "he" or "she," I don't care. I'd say I'm gender fluid: I oscillate between masculinity and femininity, it's pretty fluid and blurry. Looking back, my parents now think it suits me just fine. That episode was one of the first things I did to assert my eccentricity: I do what I want and I'm not going to let others decide what I look like. ![]() My mother blurted out: "Oh no, you didn't." I told them they weren't going to glue my hair back onto my head anyways, which was perhaps a bit cocky. ![]() When my parents came back home that evening, they hated it. ![]() I was 15, still in high school in Dinan (in the Brittany region of France). I'd already mentioned that idea to my parents during the Covid-19 lockdown, and they'd responded to me with a resounding "No!" So I did it behind their backs, on a Monday morning after they'd left for work, while I was at home as part of my course was through distance learning. I didn't want to see my hair anymore, and I wanted to shift between genders, to feel freer. It represented a very important moment for me: I said goodbye to a symbol of my malaise. The first time I dared to look more androgynous was the day I shaved my head, on November 16, 2020. Rose, an 18-year-old student, reflects on her passage to adulthood, recounting how she has been shifting between genders since she was 15.īy Léa Iribarnegaray Published on June 9, 2023, at 4:09 am (Paris), updated on June 9, 2023, at 8:16 am 'I'm gender-fluid: I oscillate between masculinity and femininity, it's pretty blurry' ![]()
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