Fashion and the LGBTQ Community: A Partnership Working For Freedom
The LGBTQ community and fashion have long been intertwined. From shows like "Queer Eye" delivering makeovers to people around Atlanta to the Met Gala celebrating camp fashion in 2019, you don't have to look hard to find intersections between style and sexuality. While the LGBTQ community has shaped fashion as the modern world knows it, it goes beyond just stylistic choices. There's a certain freedom to be found in the partnership of queerness and style.
LGBTQ Designers
Since high fashion houses came about, queer designers have been at the forefront. Born in 1905, Christian Dior rose to fame around World War 2, when he began his own fashion house that is still wildly influential today. Although it wasn't acceptable by society then, Dior was known to have an interest in men, som...