I don\u2019t think fashion is interested in trans issues. I can\u2019t think of many fashion institutions or artists who have addressed \u201ctrans issues\u201d by name, can you? How many openly transpeople are getting major work in the industry\u2014models, designers, photographers? Can you count them on more than one hand? Fashion is having a moment with trans aesthetics, not trans issues.
\nTrans aesthetics are powerful. People know when they\u2019re looking at something that conflates masculinity and femininity, or blurs the lines in between. Trans aesthetics are also taboo, so historically they\u2019ve been scarce. I don\u2019t want to name names, but even fashion\u2019s most notorious provocateurs have rarely operated outside of a cisgender milieu in terms of casting, collaborations, clothing specifications, etc. Trans aesthetics feel new. Not many have \u201cgone there,\u201d you know? This idea, of course, is ludicrous, as transfolks have been around forever, but I\u2019m happy to see trans aesthetics take root within an industry that thrives on its power to define what or who is beautiful and aspirational.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I don\u2019t think fashion is interested in trans issues. I can\u2019t think of many fashion institutions or artists who have addressed \u201ctrans issues\u201d by name, can you? How many openly transpeople are getting major work in the industry\u2014models, designers, photographers? Can you count them on more than one hand? Fashion is having a moment with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":11021,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1763,1764,697,1762,569,997,1253,1462,458],"class_list":["post-11020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-aesthetics","tag-cisgender","tag-gender","tag-hari-nef","tag-identity","tag-interview","tag-qotd","tag-style-com","tag-transgender"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/map.model.world\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/map.model.world\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/map.model.world\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/map.model.world\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/map.model.world\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/map.model.world\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11022,"href":"https:\/\/map.model.world\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11020\/revisions\/11022"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/map.model.world\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/map.model.world\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/map.model.world\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/map.model.world\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}