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When Alessandro Michele was growing up in Rome in the s, one of his favourite pastimes was to rummage through his mother’s closet and to scamper his hands over the rustling taffeta, glinting sequins, and other adornments of time past. Michele’s mother worked as an assistant to an executive at a film-production company, a career that called for a glamorous self-presentation, and one gown particularly captured the young Michele’s imagination. Fashioned from crepe de chine in the style of Valentino, it was full-length and high-necked, falling straight down in a way that reminded Michele of a candle. The front of the dress was entirely black, which Michele’s mother considered reliably chic. Embroidered on its reverse, however, was an enormous pink and lilac butterfly – an graceful yet subversive gesture, suggesting metamorphosis and transient beauty. Michele’s mother explained that she had bought the gown for a premiere; it seemed to him, he later recollected, “like she was telling me: ‘I wore it in a world that now no longer exists.’ ”
Four decades after those closet explorations,
8 LGBT Designers Who Transformed the Fashion Industry
The LGBT community has come a long way in their quest for acceptance. The journey is far from over, but the fruits of that labor are starting to show. There was a time when their very existence was not only frowned upon, but they were attacked for it. The times have changed a amazing deal to the indicate where someone like Pete Buttigieg was in the running for Democratic Party presidential nomination in
The fashion industry has seen its fair share of great fashion designers and creators who are members of the LGBT people. Some of those celebrated names include the following.
Gianni Versace
The two names that are associated with some of the top brands in the world belonged to the man who has been at the heart of some of the biggest fashion trends in the world. The Italian fashion icon is credited with being the first designer who started combining music and fashion, giving rise to some of the most iconic music videos seen to date. Gianni Versace has worked with the large names like Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, Linda Evangelist
Gay Menswear Fashion Designers
Fashion design has always had a big contingency of male lover men who are prominent in the profession. This is perhaps not surprising given the extent to which the industry relies on leading-edge and extravagant design, a particular skill of many in the LGBTQ community.
Often notable for designing haute couture and ready-to-wear for women, there is a smaller group of homosexual men who also design menswear. Most of them are highly visible and operate global brands either under their own labels, or associated with household-name design firms.
Successful menswear style comes down to three important components: sever, fit and material (including colour, style and texture). There can be various degrees of victory with each of these components, but the top designers manage to outdo with all three in combination. Fancy design success in any field (including architecture, housewares, and others), financial triumph often relies on a standardized signature design manufactured with mass production and accompanied by global distribution. The first fashion design
While all male fashion designers aren&#;t gay there are some who are, avoiding stereotyping, we bet you didn&#;t know that these 5 top designers were homosexuals :
Tom Ford&#; Tom Ford and Richard Buckley are hailed as the most adorable gay couple of the fashion industry. Devotion, at first sight, is precisely what describes the couple&#;s love story. Ford made the decision of marrying Buckley in a second elevator ride during just their second encounter!
Michael Kors&#; Le Pere and Kors met in when he was an intern at the company. Just a limited weeks after gay marriage became legal in Recent York, Michael married his longtime partner Lance La Pere, vice president of Michael Kors Women&#;s Design in August
Karl Lagerfeld- In the early 70&#;s, Jacques de Bascher de Beaumarchais, an affluent quasi-aristocrat became the object of Karl Lagerfeld’s affection. Then, the It boy began an affair with Yves Saint Laurent in , fueling the rivalry between the two influential designers. After sharing De Bascher for a while, Karl had to let go of him as he died of complications from AIDS i