Stuff Fashion People Like #21 Gay Fashion Designers
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Marc Jacobs
Thom Browne
Michael Kors
Alber Elbaz
Sir Norman Hartnell
Christian Dior
Rudi Gernreich
Sir Hardy Amies
Yves Saint Laurent
Valentino Garavani
Roy Halston Frowick
Calvin Klein
Gianni Versace
Giorgio Armani
Willi Smith
Jean-Paul Gaultier
Alexandre Herchcovitch
Domenico Dolce
Stefano Gabbana
Tom Ford
Alexander McQueen
Isaac Mizrahi
Cristobal Balenciaga
Leigh Bowery
Ossie Clark
Perry Ellis
Etre (Romain de Tirtoff)
John Galliano
Jean Paul Gaultier
Karl Lagerfeld
William Ivey Long
Hedi Slimane
Alexander Wang
Richie Rich
Travis Rains
All men. All idiots.
I just ate some garlic. You smell that.
Haha, silly woman, you wish I’d kiss you cause I’m so fucking sexy.
Female fashion people love them a gay designer.
Nearly every fashion-line out there has some inspiration or influence by a gay designer. In every major fashion house, there is at least one gay man pulling at the strings and creating works of fashion “art” which are unwearable, unbearably revealing and most of the time only flattering to .02% of the population. Why?
Cause gays are men. And men are idiots.
Not to get all on the side of feminism here, but why is it that so much of what you wear is influenced by a man? Men don’t know jack about woman and gay men are especially tuned out to your needs since nothing about your figure or body satisfies them physically. They’re looking for twigs and berries and all you offer is, well, you know what you have to offer. So who are gay men designing clothing for? If they were designing for women, don’t you think they would start with a sketch that’s more aligned with the way women really look, instead of designing clothes for stick figures? Last time I checked size two is not the normal woman. Gay designers don’t care about your weight issues, your insecurities, and your self destructive desire to fit their mold. Why else would so many gay male designers be opposed to the idea of enlisting a weight requirement on the runway? If they actually cared about women, wouldn’t they be the first to jump at the chance to properly represent them in their work? Why don’t they care?
Cause gays are men. And men are idiots.
Most of the clothing that makes up high-fashion are “outrageously-priced items worn by stick-thin, boobless models with boyish figures who have landed the job because their aesthetics appealed to some gay man somewhere who has no physical use for a woman other than as a walking hanger.” At least that’s the way Tracey Egan, editor of Jezebel.com, feels about the subject as quoted in her recent Vice magazine write up on why she hates fashion. So why do fashion people love gay designers?
Cause gays are men. And men are idiots.
Yeah, hold her down and make her drink pee.
Haha stupid girl, I bet you want me, but you can’t have me.
That’s right, women love gay designers cause they are men. And somewhere deep in the female conscienceness is a little programmed bug that tells us one thing, men rule the world. It’s because of this that more women haven’t stood up and demanded changes in fashion. It’s because of this that we have anorexic models paraded down the runway, emaciated with zero percent body fat, telling women that they are too fat if they are a size 6. And it’s because of this that nearly everything you’ll find in high fashion magazines like Vogue, Elle and Harpers Baazar is designed to make you feel like shit cause you aren’t a thin enough, sexy enough, or man enough to pull it off.
Cause gays think you’re fat. And women are idiots.
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Comment by trendinista on 30 April 2008:
“I just ate some garlic. You smell that.” Okay, I think I just peed myself a little!!!!!!
Comment by missviolet on 30 April 2008:
i loved this article. you were able to analyze the fashion industry’s attack on womens bodies in a conscise manner. also, you repeated “perry ellis” twice on your list, dear.
Comment by Daniel Saynt on 30 April 2008:
thanks for the love. Perry ellis had been fixed.
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Comment by claire on 5 May 2008:
Why don’t more people - gay or straight, women or men - design clothes for the ‘real woman’? Because fashion is ASPIRATIONAL. Its about fantasy. Actually, plenty of clothes out there *are* designed for the average woman but they’re not, however, the ones that drive the fantasy hype of the magazines and runways. They’ve tried it - putting normal women in wearable clothes - in the fantasy and guess what? It doesn’t sell. We see that on the streets everywhere and its not what we want to see in our aspirational fantasy.
When most straight men design clothes, their designs look like they’re for strippers. Or video game characters. Gay men seem to be better able to create this abstract ideal of feminine beauty without overtly sexualizing it.
So why do gay men rule the fashion world and not women? Is it the boys club network? Check out Eric Wilson’s Dec 05 article in the NY Times for some insight. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/08/fashion/thursdaystyles/08FASHION.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=gay+men+fashion+pier&st=nyt&oref=slogin
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[…] Fashion Indie goes on a rant about the disproportionate number of gay men designing women’s clothes: (Photo credit to Daniele Oberrauch for Style.com) Not to get all on the side of feminism here, but why is it that so much of what you wear is influenced by a man? Men don’t know jack about woman and gay men are especially tuned out to your needs since nothing about your figure or body satisfies them physically. They’re looking for twigs and berries and all you offer is, well, you know what you have to offer…Why don’t they care? […]
Comment by brooksie on 10 May 2008:
At least half of the guys up there up there have a “classic” design aesthetic (a few listed aren’t even gay or women’s wear designers)….it’s only the few who do the wild and unwearable and even then it’s only a few pieces usually. To a large extent, it’s women who choose how the image is portrayed via the fashion magazine. This is as much, if not more, responsible for whatever images get out there to the public.
The idea of fashion being “aspirational” seems a more American approach than a French or Italian one……which I think is reflected in the to approach and quality of mag editorials. Americans seem to take what they see literally as the one and only way to be fashionable….that’s where the trouble comes in. The Euro editions merely show you what’s there, but the American editions attempt to instruct and define who/what/how it should be done. In French fashion particularly, there has always been a strong presence of female designers and they weren’t neglected in fashion coverage (which has until recently been the case in the US outside of 3-4 big name female designers). So not only were the French aware of alternatives, but they aren’t told that there’s only one way to approach something.
Perhaps we need to get away from the idea of “aspirational” and start thinking of designers and magazines as only suggestions. I think self-esteem would rise considerably if the need to be so literal is put into some perspective.