This is what I like about those shape dresses and JW Anderson's stuff (as well as the other designers in that genre, he's the only one I'm familiar with). While some of it could be construed as cross-dressing, the designer often shows some direction of disrupting the cues of the body. Rather than saying "I'm going to try and obscure the idea of gender", it says "Oh, you like how a man's torso tapers from pecs to pelvis? Fuck you, boxy crop top." On the female side, I've always loved the statue-shoulder power suits common on women in the '80s for the same reasons.
Relevant Hark, A Vagrant:
Also some good images from Walter Van Beirendonck's S/S 2000 "Gender?" collection, could be worth checking out if you're researching the topic.
Statistics: Posted by UnwashedMolasses — Wed Nov 13, 2013 1:45 am
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