LOL Having high standards and calling out tackiness, sloppiness and cheapness is not hating on drag nor on queens. Being critical of a component of drag doesn’t mean one’s hating on drag as a whole. It’s not internalized homophobia/transphobia/toxicity and whatever buzzwords children want to throw to silence critics. It’s valid criticism. Talents like Willam/Violet Chachki/Pearl will not get dragged any time, any place, anywhere.
Why would any “big time fashion designer” bother with dressing men like women, when there have always been men that have been wearing womenswear and modifying the designs to best suit them— without the need for any affirmation from anyone??? In a business sense, It’s such a minuscule minority of males that would be interested in actually buying such designs in retail (forget about couture), that any brand and retailer would be committing retail suicide to commit to such a thing. And creatively--it’s nothing fresh, nothing innovative, nothing daring, nothing risqué, nothing brave, nothing visionary within the context of high fashion. …Totally another story if crossdressing were blatantly on display in the ME or Africa LMFAO …Maybe not intentional, but this Western insecure attitude these days that I-must-see-mainstream-representation-of-me-in-order-to-relate-and-be-validatd is the most obnoxious, arrogant, narcissistic— and frankly, in this specific scenario, such a misogynistic attitude: Men playing dressup demanding womenswear represent them LOOOL
Master fashion visionaries Gaultier/Galliano/Yohji/Rei/Hedi (…yes Hedi too, Mullet… LOL) have fused menswear/womenswear in ways that are genuinely fresh, daring, inspirational and aspirational— and profitable. While hyped lessers JW Anderson and Alessandro Michelle are lazily parading twinks in dresses: Basic, bland and boring. These lessers will never be interesting, let alone visionary. Then there’s this Harris person…
