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I make a distinction between fashion (art) and style (stuff to wear, often influenced by fashion, but ultimately to be practical for a range of women). How do people (women) feel if they are treated as the canvas or bearers of art? Once you realize that fashion is meant to transcend boobies and hips or whatever someone sees as an essential part of the body, it becomes so much easier to appreciate it for what fashion is- art for art's sake.Īrt for art's sake- going back to Monet, Picasso, Mondrian, Chagall, Barlewi, Hoch, and so many others has gained criticism, and fashion as art is no different and possibly has it worse, because at some point the canvas is attached to the body of a living, feeling human.Īnd therein lies the issue for people. Fashion is often about gender bending, even denying the natural states of the body. It pushes boundaries of what the body is- male or female. I personally differentiate fashion from the shit I wear everyday. I want to say first of all- thank WHOMEVER that gay men are interested in fashion. What is it with gay men and women's fashion?Ĭoming soon: What is it with gay men and Carol Channing? Readers, I turn to you and your collective wisdom. What is it about women's clothes that makes them so interesting to gay men? Why do they so often design them, critique them and, on occasion, even wear them?Īnd how about all the straight designers of women's clothes - Oleg Cassini, Oscar de la Renta, Jean Louis? However do you explain them? And how about the gay men who couldn't care less about women's clothes? Readers, I do not have the answer! My immediate response, just a gut reaction, was, I think it's because we're bored with our own clothes.īut now I'm not sure if it isn't something more.Ĭatherine Deneuve with Yves Saint Laurent Still, for the sake of simplicity, let's call it a question.
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Wait - I know: you're about to say that this isn't a question at all, but rather a statement referring to a question. Something I don't get: why gay men are arbiters of women's fashion. Why are we here? Are there dogs in heaven? Whatever happened to Deanna Durbin?Īnother question asked since time immemorial was restated recently by an MPB reader only the other day, in response to Wednesday's post, Things I Don't Get, Vol. Readers, in life, some questions are eternal.