Articles berlin Culture fashion germany Javier de la Blanca John Galliano LGBTQ+ Fashion News Originals

“I can be a top wearing a skirt”: Javier de la Blanca is switching up Berlin fashion

The Margiela-loving queer artist is known for surreal humour, serving looks and showing up for himself unapologetically. WORDS BY JUULE KAY IMAGES COURTESY OF JAVIER DE LA BLANCA HEADER IMAGE BY YOSEF PHELAN The rumours are true, you see a lot of unusual things on Berlin’s streets, like urban cow-riding, e-scooter tetris or flamboyant outfit checks. But when it comes to Javier de la Blanca and his way of dressing up, it’s more than just a fashion statement. It’s political and often questions the definition of what masculinity means today.…

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Articles Butch Ella Boucht fashion Gender non-conforming LGBTQ+ Fashion LGBTQIA+ community News Originals Queer By Design Queer history

Across timelines, Ella Boucht is helping dykes and trans+ folk take up more space

The Finnish designer and creative director’s sensual, subversive garments empower butch bodies in the now, while their HÄN Archive project celebrates non-binary, trans, gender non-conforming and lesbian folks from the past.  WORDS BY JAMIE WINDUST PHOTOGRAPHY BY JODY EVANS MODELS: BAMBIE JORDAN PHILLIPS, DANNIE SPOONER, GII Welcome to Queer by Design, a new monthly column by GAY TIMES Contributing Editor Jamie Windust. Here, Jamie profiles emerging designers about the intersections of style, identity and expression and how these factors inform their creative practice. Transcending the lines between fashion and art,…

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Articles fashion Gen Z Gen Z LGBTQ+ LGBTQ+ Fashion News Originals

If the economy is tanking, why *not* dress like a dominatrix for the office?

Gen Z killed office casual. Here’s how queer, London designers are reinventing work clothes. WORDS BY JAMIE WINDUST  PHOTOGRAPHY COURTESY OF FASHION EAST With the economic blues hitting home and our hard-grafted Vinted sales no longer safe from the tax man, the euphoria around fashion might feel like it’s on the way out. But even the 2008 financial crash couldn’t stop London Fashion Week and so, this February, LFW reared its subversive, stylish head once more.   And, okay, we were kind of gagged! From Dilara Findikoglu’s ode to the divine…

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Articles Culture fashion LGBTQ+ Fashion London Fashion Week News Originals Patrick McDowell Queer By Design

Patrick McDowell might be a CSM grad, but scouse glamour gave them their first fashion education

Inspired by the glamazons who strut the streets of their hometown, the designer has always believed in the transformative power of clothing WORDS BY JAMIE WINDUST CREATIVE DIRECTION BY PATRICK MCDOWELL PHOTOGRAPHY AND CO-CREATIVE DIRECTION BY FRANCISCO GOMEZ DE VILLABOA STYLING, CO-CREATIVE DIRECTION AND CASTING BY JAIME MORENO HAIR BY CRISTOPHE POTIN FOR AVEDA UK MAKE UP BY ELLE MCMAHON SET DESIGN BY ZUZANNA SKURTYS SET ASSISTANT LAURA HAYES Welcome to Queer by Design, a new monthly column by GAY TIMES Contributing Editor Jamie Windust. Here, Jamie profiles emerging designers…

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Articles Culture Harry Lambert Harry Styles LGBTQ+ Fashion News SS Daley

Harry Styles invests in queer British fashion label S.S Daley

Harry Styles has taken a minority stake in emerging queer British label S.S. Daley for an undisclosed amount. On Thursday 11 Jan, the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence was transformed into the location of the Pitti Uomo trade show. The ascending label featured on the line-up alongside Italian brand Magliano. After the catwalk, the brand announced the minority stake from the ‘Sign of the Times’ singer, who is an avid wearer of the brand. His introduction to S.S Daley is credited to his stylist and S.S. Daley collaborator Harry Lambert. Notably,…

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Articles fashion Grete Henriette LGBTQ+ Fashion News Originals Sam Smith

Grete Henriette does ‘heavenly bodies’ better than the Met Gala – and the Vatican

Equally informed by a religious upbringing and nights immersed in East London’s queer scene, the designer channels the “cunty yet heavenly soft” qualities of Renaissance Catholicism into wearable pieces art WORDS BY JAMIE WINDUST  CREDITS FOR  OUTDOOR SHOOT: PHOTOGRAPHY BY SARAH HUGO-HAMMAN MODEL PONAHALO MOJAPELO ASSISTED BY JADE DE NOBRIGA CREDITS FOR STUDIO SHOOT: PHOTOGRAPHY BY CÉSAR BUITRAGO MAKEUP BY ALEX LEVY MODEL ISABELLA CARR Welcome to Queer by Design, a new monthly column by GAY TIMES Contributing Editor Jamie Windust. Here, Jamie profiles emerging designers about the intersections of…

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Articles Bella Ramsey Billy Porter Cara Delevingne fashion Hunter Schafer Janelle Monae Laverne Cox LGBTQ+ Fashion Munroe Bergdorf Ncuti Gatwa News Originals Sam Smith Troye Sivan

9 LGBTQ+ style icons who defined fashion in 2023

From Troye Sivan in drag to the Billy Porter tuxedo-dress that raised the roof, this is 2023 in all of its queer fashion glory. WORDS BY ALICE MOREY HEADER DESIGN BY YOSEF PHELAN 2023 was the year that saw Barbiecore paint the URL and IRL worlds Pepto-Bismol pink, Beyoncé’s Renaissance tour make diamanté catsuits so ubiquitous they became coffee run-appropriate casualwear and Miu Miu convinced us, en masse, to forgo our trousers. And, despite the creeping influence of indie sleaze, Y2K fits continued to reign supreme, with fans in Ice…

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