Finnish Ella takes a stand with her clothes: Style influencers worth following

Interesting LGBTQ style and fashion influencers who have inspired throughout the ages.

Model Jenny Shimizu, model and actress Cara Delevigne and Harris Reed are fashion influencers. Jenny Shimizu, Harris Reed / Instagram, Cara Delevigne

These fashion influencers will inspire you to play with style too.

1. Harris Reed

English-American fashion designer and artistic director of the French fashion house Nina Ricci Harris Reed calls his own style romanticism gone non-binary (non-binary romanticism). Reed is inspired by current social and political topics of discussion, and he wants his creations to act as conversation starters.

In 2020, Reed told an English fashion magazine For Vogue being gender fluid. A transgender person’s gender identity can be a mix of masculinity, femininity, or something else. Gender identity may also be variable or fluid.

Reed has designed clothes for singers and actors, among others For Harry Styles. Reed has also designed a make-up collection suitable for all genders for the MAC cosmetics brand.

2. Tess Holliday

American model, makeup artist and activist Tess Holliday. Holliday has appeared as a model in Italian Vogue and the US Nylon magazine and has worked as an artist by David LaChapelle as a model. In 2019, Holliday announced that she is pansexual. A pansexual feels romantic and/or sexual attraction towards all genders.

At the beginning of June, Holliday was one of the speakers at the UN’s World Eating Disorders Day. Holliday said in 2021 that he had an atypical eating disorder.

3. Ella Boucht

Finnish fashion designer Ella Boucht take a stand on gender and its expression with their clothes. With her clothes, she wants to make visible transgender, genderless and trans bodies, which she says are easily left out in the heteronormative fashion image.

Boucht graduated from the well-known London fashion school Central Saint Martins art school. Other well-known school graduates are: Stella McCartney and John Galliano. The plush padded jacket designed by Boucht has been seen on singer Rihanna.

Boucht does not limit his artistic expression to just fashion. Last year, he was involved in the HÄN project, which recorded the lives of lesbian, trans and transgender people in the present and in the past.

4. Jenny Shimizu

Japanese-American model and actor Jenny Shimizu became famous Calvin Klein CKOne -perfume from advertisements in the 1990s. Shimizu, who used to work as a mechanic, was the first Asian model in the Italian fashion house Prada’s fashion show.

Shimizu has performed Madonna’s in music videos. Shimizu has told that he is dating Madonna and Angelina Jolie. Shimizu has been married by Michelle Harper with since 2014.

5. Soft collective

Caroline Suinner and Meriam Trebelsi form the Pehmee collective, which makes room for marginalized people in the areas of media, art, fashion and culture.

The soft collective has, among other things, organized party events for queer people and appeared in Zalando’s Vapaus olla fashion campaign. Last year, the collective raised the question of whether it would be time to upgrade Women’s Day to a day of femininity, where the celebration would take into account all people who suffer from gender inequality, such as trans people and transgender people.

6. Jean Paul Gaultier

Dubbed the horror of French fashion Jean Paul Gaultier launched skirts in its men’s collection in 1984, and it caused a stir in conservative circles. In the same year, Gaultier also launched his iconic cone bustier corset.

Perhaps the most famous version of the corset was seen on Madonna’s Blond Ambition tour. One of the corsets worn by Madonna was later sold at an auction for around 40,000 euros.

Gaultier has said that he sought inspiration for the clothes he designed from French popular culture, gender stereotypes and their mixing, as well as various fetishisms and futuristic design.

Gaultier’s fashion shows featured transgender models as early as the 1980s. Gaultier retired from the eponymous fashion house in 2020.

7. Cara Delevingne

British model and actress Cara Delevigne has appeared in advertisements for numerous well-known brands such as H&M, Chanel, Saint Laurent, and Burberry.

Delevigne debuted as an actress Anna Karenina in the movie in 2012. He has also appeared Suicide Squad, Tulip fever and Life in a Year in the movies.

Delevigne has said that she is bisexual. At the moment, he dreams of adding his spouse to the family by Leah Mason with.

8. Patricia Field

American costume designer, stylist and fashion designer Patricia Field became known in the late 1990s Single life as a costume designer for the series. He also costumed the Sex and the City 1 movies based on the series & 2. Field has not worked a new one And Just Like That as a costume designer for the series.

Filed has also worked on other series such as Ugly Betty and Emily in Paris, as a costume designer. Probably the most famous of the movie costumes The Devil Wears Prada.

He has owned several clothing stores in New York that have been popular among trans people and members of various underground communities.

Field is said to have “invented” leggings in the 1970s. Field dated a stylist for a long time by Rebecca Weinberg with.

Field has written a memoir about his colorful life Pat in the Citywhich was released in February.

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