I did a lot of reading about gender and androgyny.
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His androgyny, too, helped shatter restrictive notions of black masculinity.
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Many prefer looks that might skew toward androgyny or butchness.
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When I got to college I started to experiment with androgyny.
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He made folk-singing androgyny cool, then ditched it for glitter rock.
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And there's androgyny, and there's LGBT coming in, and it feels good.
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"What I've always been trying to do is implement androgyny," he said.
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It didn't take that much estrogen to shift androgyny toward traditional femininity.
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The term "androgyny" tends to sound sexless, like you're trying to be nothing.
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He's got a kind of this weird androgyny, which I think is quite fascinating.
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He was an example — perhaps even the goal — of sensual, confident androgyny, and blackness.
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Certain writers also point to the erotics of androgyny; others, to plain old lesbianism.
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Quiet and complicated, the twinned androgyny only deepens the picture's curiously placid, operatic feel.
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It's refreshing to see someone so young confidently embrace an impish, Bowie-esque androgyny.
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Androgyny TodayNever before has gender identity been as salient a topic as it is today.
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For many artists, painting figures of ambiguous sexuality or androgyny offered a solution of sorts.
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I envied her for her androgyny, something I didn't think I could pull off anymore.
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" Mr. Dove added that the most surprising and modern roses "speak of a fantastic androgyny.
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Four male models charting varying degrees of androgyny wander in and out, quickly changing clothes.
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They were shown to embody androgyny and masculinity and they were almost always white and thin.
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We kept circling back to androgyny — David Bowie, Tilda Swinton — and he would give me ideas.
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Elliot has short black hair and dresses with impish androgyny in men's pants and band T-shirts.
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Fini painted a number of erotic male nudes that celebrate androgyny and feminine qualities in their subjects.
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The ease with which he pulled off these looks made androgyny — an erstwhile social taboo — the new normal.
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The duo's new exhibition at Galerie Azzedine Alaia, L'androgyne alchimique, purportedly features work that addresses alchemy and androgyny.
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She establishes a multifaceted representation of androgyny by imbuing both female and male attributes into these headless mannequins.
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Certainly the frontiers of sexual license often feature strong male-female differentiation rather than androgyny or gender-neutrality.
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In a program note and interviews, Ms. Neuwirth has described aiming for a kind of androgyny in sound.
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Now, HMLTD discuss it in a fluid way, approaching it in art theory terms of binaries, androgyny, and presentation.
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As such, we strove to create a space for a range of race, age, masculinity, femininity, and/or androgyny.
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Androgyny reigned supreme With many of the men wearing pearl necklaces, frilly, sheer camis and delicate lace boxers. 3.
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Rose spoke with Refinery29 about the campaign, androgyny in fashion, and why gender-fluid role models really do matter.
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The androgyny that made me impossible to cast seemed not only to be ignored in Ludlam's aesthetic, but celebrated.
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As seen in "Fall Fashion: The New Androgyny" photographed by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott, styled by Olivier Rizzo.
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Or for women and men to wear virtually interchangeable clothes, in restrained, minimalist androgyny (Raf Simons for Calvin Klein).
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There was a lot of playing with androgyny, making your own outfits because nobody was yet mass-producing this stuff.
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His portrait of the writer Quentin Crisp (pictured) is a study in androgyny, emphasising Crisp's glossy lips and long eyelashes.
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Three months after his death, we lost Prince, a star whose doe-eyed persona extended glam's androgyny into the '80s.
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It's a tribute to her working-class roots while also signaling her interest in androgyny and other kinds of ambiguity.
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Halsey recently dressed as rock icons David Bowie, Mick Jagger, Jimi Hendrix, and Bob Dylan to celebrate androgyny and fluidity.
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And often, menswear worn by women has the effect of enhancing the femininity of the wearer rather than conveying true androgyny.
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It was such a beautiful androgyny and a different type of masculinity that was huge in the '80s and the '90s.
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"Throughout history, some sort of androgyny or rejection of the socialization that comes from gender has always been prevalent," Odesser says.
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I want to show androgyny in a way that's not "neutral," but rather the opposite—extreme masculinity mixed with extreme femininity.
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Like the androgyny of male and female swans in tutus or long skirts, the idea of mixing is given rather than explored.
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Drucker always knew she flouted traditional gender categories, but she was able to maintain a level of androgyny until her early 20s.
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With characteristic slyness, Davenport enjoyed sneaking in praise of same-sex love and androgyny to the pages of William F. Buckley's magazine.
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They are aligned, however, in their attempt to make clothes that don't simply suggest androgyny but that announce a radically inclusive ideology.
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When I was listening to a lot of punk music, it seemed natural to use androgyny as part of a grunge collection.
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Adorned with woolen eyes looking outwards, the work reflects the onus of androgyny — the humiliation of "searching" for someone's gender — back onto society.
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They were like, we love your androgyny, we love your Instagram photos—thanks mom— we think you're perfect for the industry right now.
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A lot of things manage to do that nowadays, true, but the male waist trend only seems like another step toward neutered androgyny.
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This pairing of a high female voice with a male character encouraged Mr. Williams to play with the idea of gender and androgyny.
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Ernst uses lighting and camera angles to highlight the androgyny of Adam's soft face, which emphasizes the similarities between cisgender and trans masculinity.
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In the music video, Bieber wears earrings and a pearl necklace, embracing the kind of androgyny that's also been popularized by Harry Styles.
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Ernst uses lighting and camera angles to highlight the androgyny of Adam's soft face, which emphasizes the similarities between cisgender and trans masculinity.
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Trans people seem to be fetishized by some fashion brands, their androgyny capitalized on without any significant investment in trans people or culture.
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While androgyny has long been a motif in fashion design and culture, today's more mainstream just-do-you attitude is giving it new life.
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Though they came from the post-Bowie period of his work, their ingredients of androgyny, camp and daredevilry now seem closely akin to Bowie.
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Even during glam rock, an era ruled by high androgyny, his unfiltered presentation threatened to reveal something too genuine behind the usual campy shenanigans.
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The imagery has more to do with the loveliness of Marc Chagall and Francesco Clemente than the obscurity of alchemy or perplexity of androgyny.
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This embodiment of strength, resilience, and androgyny is something I've sought out more in wuxia films, but Mulan will always remain my first love.
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"We always think of androgyny as masculine, so I want to create androgynous clothing that uses a woman's body as a template," she said.
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It's funny but the show's curator told me that what shocked her is that visitors to the show think androgyny is a new concept.
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They discussed everything from their journey to androgyny to their take on war, evolution, God, politics, the for-profit art world, space exploration, and more.
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From Margins To MainstreamGrowing up in the 80s, everyone was cool with men who wore makeup, like Boy George, and androgyny was such a thing.
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The hyena—a smelly, hairy animal associated with witchcraft and androgyny—was an alarming creature to sympathize with, but it was fitting for Carrington's sensibility.
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Her sculptural process combines fibrous materials around light metal structures, producing abstract figurative forms with universal elements of androgyny, armor, flight, seduction, myth, and mystery.
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Name a pop act from the 1980s, and, amazingly, androgyny was somewhere in the mix: Thompson Twins, the Human League, pick a hair-metal act.
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Her slippery identity typifies the aim of Cross-Dressing and Drag on Screen: to close the gender gap with layer after layer of mercurial androgyny.
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Transgressive stars of the 1960s, like Mick Jagger, and glam-rockers of the '70s, like David Bowie, used androgyny to push back against gender constraints.
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" Mr. Farrell, sartorially splendid in a brown suit, black cape and floppy hat, mostly smiled and posed as he teased at the androgyny of "Rebel Rebel.
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It would be well timed, since the fashion industry has lately embraced androgyny with gusto, though sometimes in ways that gay and transgender advocates find exploitative.
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One style prediction that will dominate the next decade is the idea of androgyny and playing with traditional ideas of what men and women "should" wear.
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There wasn't a hint of his previous androgyny and there seemed to be no space for Martin, a gay man, to perform outside the hyper-hetero stereotype.
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I just like to be comfortable and cozy, but also I'm a full believer in androgyny: wearing gorgeous dresses but also rocking a suit or wearing tracksuits.
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Other figures, such as the sitters in "The Stains (brown)" (2017) and "Makeup (magenta mouth)" (2017) also walk the lines between gender, amounting to a feminine androgyny.
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In the last few years, it's spawned a mania across Asia for a pure and innocent look characterized by flawless features with a doll-like, elfin androgyny.
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"There is a trend in androgyny in Hong Kong, where people dress in slim-fitting clothes that might make it difficult to determine the gender," Mr. Xu said.
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In that hallowed space it was gradually indoctrinated in me that cool meant long glossy hair, tight leather trousers, male falsettos, sassy androgyny, expensive sounding drum-fills and cowbells.
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A number of commenters have reacted to his death, for instance, by praising his androgyny and sexually adventurous stage presence for cracking the door towards acceptance of genderqueer identities.
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The media obsessed over George's androgyny—his painted face and oversized shirts that resembled dresses—overlooking the band's complex musical mesh of failed homosexual romances and bright gay clubs.
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Unlike with Little Richard (Prince's forebear in black American androgyny), it was impossible to imagine Prince becoming a preacher as a way of renouncing his love affair with eyeliner.
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He spent his life dodging questions about his sexuality, yet he embraced androgyny and opulence, and was beloved for it even in a time when homophobia was more pronounced.
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She encountered the Lolita world as a teen through visual kei musicians, whose fluid androgyny offered a bridge between her earlier tomboy years and the more ultra-feminine Lolita styles.
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I am still surprised by the power I felt channeling Prince's brand of androgyny as I walked through my conservative Missouri city to meet friends at a neighborhood watering hole.
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Androgyny cozied up to cheeky intellectualism, and in a slightly off-kilter palette: an announcement of his willingness to play with color more daringly than his forebears at Gucci had.
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As the '60s progressed, androgyny became central to male display, with long hair, brightly colored clothing, and, in the case of the mods of the mid-'60s, flashy tailored suits.
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For Daum's mother, the 220s came too late: Her feminism meant buying Marlo Thomas's "Free to Be … You and Me." But the new androgyny boom was, for a girl, freeing.
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But unlike the latter two men, who claimed androgyny as their signature, Michael was decidedly masculine — leather jacket, aviators, and snarled lip, like a Tom of Finland drawing come to life.
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Let's Not Find Out" Alex Bruce on "Beyond Androgyny: Nonbinary Teenage Fashion" Emma Chen on "The New Spiritual Consumerism" Jaden Faunteroy on "Is Slavery's Legacy in the Power Dynamics of Sports?
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I mean, obviously David Bowie was a huge inspiration with the face painting and the androgyny and the color and never letting anyone put him in a box or define him.
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Bowie's rocking ode to androgyny is purportedly his most covered song, and artists as diverse as Def Leppard, Dead or Alive and Cherie Currie have each given the song their own spin.
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This should not be a surprise—hardly anyone can pull off building a fashion empire around androgyny, wearing a raw meat dress to an awards ceremony, or singing about life on Mars.
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According to Hairstory Studio's founder and creative director Michael Gordon, cropped hair is no longer a form of androgyny but rather a way for women to convey a new type of beauty.
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Her collaborations with Goude, particularly, led to some of her most iconic snapshots, in which her oiled limbs appear to stretch on forever, rendering her hypersexualized; her blackness emphasized; her androgyny amplified.
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GUCCI G-TIMELESS AUTOMATIC $7,000 Androgyny is a style watchword at the moment, and it appears to have inspired Gucci's unisex G-Timeless, which is to have eight new models this year.
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Mixed media Another grouping again shows my fascination with the marriage of opposites; young, hip, edgy attitude pushing against classic luxury, or androgyny contrasted with the rough and refined, rustic and elegant.
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N.L." characters of the 1990s, with help from an opening jingle whose lyrics asked viewers to "accept him or her" for "whatever it might be — it's time for androgyny, here comes Pat.
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And in part, it was born out of a belief that the rejection of girliness was in itself misogynistic: girliness, third-wavers argued, was not inherently less valuable than masculinity or androgyny.
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A big local band were Pink Grease, who were sort of like a ragtag, pound shop version of the New York Dolls, reeking of poppers and androgyny, and sounding like Devo obsessives.
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And in that moment, I felt like someone else was seeing what I had seen in myself: that my inner sense of androgyny was reflected in ways I carried myself like a man.
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"Individuality and androgyny are certainly not a new thing in fashion, but the trend has swung back around due to a larger gender conversation," said Alastair McKimm, the fashion director at i-D.
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Slashing together glam's androgyny with gothic kabuki and not an insignificant dash of punk's snarl and attitude, visual kei is the underground 80s movement X Japan helped shove into country, Japan's incidentally, spotlight.
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Back when her club uniform was a sleeveless man's T-shirt, a leather biker jacket and trousers, Ms. Nearburg found that her apparent androgyny made her attractive across the spectrum of gender identities.
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Elsewhere in the video, Missy dons a pair of safety-orange rubber overalls as she leads a pack of all male dancers; they mimic her moves, giving a sense of both sensuality and androgyny.
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Leonardo's works do show a striking fixation on androgyny, a term often used about his figures—a fixation that became unignorable with the rediscovery, in the nineteen-nineties, of a long-lost pornographic drawing.
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London is, after all, at the forefront of the industry's gender-bending movement in fashion — the place where androgyny and fluidity seem to be more accepted and celebrated than in any other major fashion hub.
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Androgyny is accepted in Chinese entertainment, where "pretty" boy bands and "handsome" girl groups command millions of fans, in a phenomenon widely attributed to the influence of pop culture from neighboring South Korea and Japan.
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I usually get frustrated at them, so I try and dress more feminine for the ease of getting through it—which sucks because I'm more comfortable looking masculine or playing with androgyny in my appearance.
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Kate Lindsey, an intense mezzo-soprano, sings Orlando as a young man at an uncomfortably low register, then higher after her transformation into a woman; in a show about androgyny, this feels like a misfire.
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The result is that when we talk about camp, and when we use camp to play with gender, we generally assume we'll be playing with queerness, with androgyny, with hyperbolic femininity — with lavender and pink.
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He explored androgyny and otherworldliness, and sampled cultures from different continents (and galaxies) as his musical and visual palettes continued to evolve, always theatrical and deeply layered until his focus turned to his own looming end.
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In 1992, Prince took the androgyny of "If I Was Your Girlfriend" even further with an album known as the Love Symbol Album, whose title was actually a mix of the female and male sex symbols.
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While it may have taken the rest of us until 2015 to jump aboard the gender-bending androgyny bandwagon, that's the ethos the singer was channeling since the '70s, only further confirming his couture style status.
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We were able to feature goth looks that were more masculine— industrial, for example, or those oh so classic Tripp pants—while also recognizing that androgyny and gender-bending are an essential element of this world.
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Cast against various lush backgrounds, Thomas explores androgyny in extravagant portraits of her partner Racquel Chevremont and performance artist Zachary Tye Richardson, while brilliant colors bleed into cold monochrome sculptures in Viviane Sassen's Venus & Mercury series.
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Bowie's androgyny knew no bounds; from his scarlet red mullet to his piercing neon-blue eye makeup, his flamboyant makeup and experimental hairstyles revolutionised masculine fashions in the 1970s, setting trends for both men and women alike.
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When Susie's farmer dad (Adrian Hough) suggests queerness or androgyny could be a "personal demon" that leads to dire physical illness in episode "An Exorcism In Greendale," Susie attempts to overcompensate for their own former androgynous style.
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Orellana's daily life is impacted by androgyny, and since few representations existed that spoke to how an androgynous person navigates a social sphere dominated by binary categories, they decided to create the Middle Child body of work.
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I guess I feel more comfortable in androgyny because of my height and my boyish stature—but equally so because I grew up in a society where it's still the pant-wearing gender that's deciding most things.
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Jo moves more towards androgyny — at least as much as a woman could in the 1860s — with Durran sprinkling hints of suiting throughout her New York wardrobe and removing the ultra-feminine aspects of her younger costumes.
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"For the generation that would spawn the out-gay pop stars of the 1980s, Bowie's outrageous campery and sexual androgyny was a revelation," Bullock writes, making them feel validated, less alone, and inspired to create their own work.
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And La Garςonne will unveil a retrospective of Yohji Yamamoto runway looks, including a houndstooth crinoline dress from fall 2003 and a printed cape from the current spring collection, that highlight the iconic designer's focus on androgyny and deconstruction.
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Since his rise to popularity, he has made flirting with gender fluidity and androgyny central to his image, going so far as to say he believes "there's no such thing as gender" in a recent Calvin Klein ad spot.
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According to Sedgwick, the most powerful figure in that triangle is often a man capable of contingent androgyny—the flamboyant, bow-tied Russell fills this role ably, frequently admonishing Gamby for failing to play the game and be nice.
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As Colette grows into her confidence, she plays with the way she dresses, dabbling in masculinity and androgyny, punctuating outfits with wicker hats, wearing wide culottes that mimic the appearance of a skirt while revealing themselves to be pants.
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But if Ms. Kahlo's flamboyant image and paintings have been peddled on T-shirts and tote bags, this fate seems less likely for the Italian-born Ms. Fini, who championed non-conformism in multiple forms, including androgyny and homosexuality.
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" According to its press release, the offering is a "juxtaposition of genderless pieces that are versatile in how they can be sized and styled speak to a shift in a modern day approach to design, and skew the definition of androgyny.
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"We don't see much cleavage in contemporary fashion — major trends like normcore and androgyny actively work against this — so naturally the Wonderbras of the 1990s look dated in contrast," says fashion historian Amber Butchart, author of The Fashion of Film.
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It was grunge's shapeless androgyny that inspired Marc Jacobs' 992 collection for Perry Ellis, which saw Naomi Campbell, Kristen McMenamy, and Nadja Auermann layered in silk shirts mimicking flannel, chiffon dresses made to look like polyester, and beanies that cost $175.
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The androgyny, sexuality, and audaciousness of these get-ups may be punchlines now, but in the context of the Reagan era, they were a rebellious counterpoint to stuffy, buttoned-up conservative types who had suddenly come out of the woodwork.
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"What we're talking about is the androgyny of the soul," Ms. Napolin, echoing a line from the play, said in 2014, when a remounted version with songs by Jill Sobule had reimagined the work for the age of gender fluidity.
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Men are women's responsibility because women are roughly 100 years ahead of men in terms of questioning gender and going along with the project of androgyny and getting in touch with the masculine side of themselves, which men have not done.
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"Queer style is really broad and diverse, and whenever it challenges what the mainstream thinks of as androgyny devoid of any femininity, people are very freaked out by that," says Anita Dolce Vita, creative director of queer style publications dapperQ and Hi, Femme!
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Mr. Gaultier found this premise ideal for exploring his own aesthetic vision, and the show features many of the sartorial tropes that earned him the long-held title of fashion's enfant terrible, including tattoos, graffiti, body modification, androgyny, fetish wear and punk.
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While she was at pains to stress that she would not bring black PVC and sexually charged androgyny to Chloé, it is hard to imagine that some of that futuristic grit will not make its way into this next chapter for the house.
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One writer called them a "mutation of Adam and the Ants and Judas Priest," but to me, their style feels more directly influenced by current tastemakers like Charles Jeffrey and Gucci's Alessandro Michele; all stylish 1970s androgyny topped off with technicolour mullets and blue lippie.
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As Depp himself has said in many interviews, the character was The Rolling Stones' Keith Richards combined with cartoon skunk Pepé Le Pew — a macho but effeminate drunk clown, with rock star sex appeal, but a cartoonish quality and enough androgyny to be unthreatening.
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That legacy was made camp (and very glam) when Julie Andrews took androgyny to the silver screen with Victor/Victoria, in the '80s, providing fashion and cinema with an image that would go on to be referenced in collections and films for decades to follow.
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Gluck and Brooks were part of a growing but still little-known group of women who wore men's clothes and cut their hair short not just to embrace the 19303s androgyny trend, but to communicate to others in the know that they were lesbians.
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Different segments of the varied LGBTQ communities have had moments like this in the past — there was the lesbian chic moment of the early 213s, the emergence of mainstream gay male love stories in the 1970s, and the laissez-faire androgyny of the 1920s.
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She arrived early to ideas still potent and percolating within the fashion ecosystem: androgyny, artificiality, the pop-up shop, the luxury group (she has encouraged several former assistants, most notably Junya Watanabe, in the creation of their own separate lines under the aegis of Comme des Garçons).
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Andreja Pejić, who grew up in a Serbian refugee camp, was discovered while working at a McDonald's in Melbourne and became successful as a male runway model, before revealing that her fine-boned androgyny was the result of a synthetic hormone and relaunching her career as a female model.
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But the way queerness works its way into Blond(e) is different to anything we've seen from Ocean, or any other popular male artist, before – whether it's Bowie toying with androgyny, Prince whipping up male and female energies into an erotic frenzy, or Perfume Genius blowing smoke directly in the face of homophobia.
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When "The Garden of Eden" appeared, in 1986, reviewers made much of the hair-cutting androgyny while leaving the anality more or less alone, but it's clear in the text that the "devil things," as Catherine calls them, center on the penetration, for which all the hair treatment is merely a preparation.
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The exaggerated androgyny of Missy Elliott, for instance, or the drag-inspired theatrics of Lady Gaga, or the tightly choreographed dance routines of Beyoncé, or even the way the word "work" seems to have crept into so many major pop songs in the past ten years, all of which harken to the pure DNA of the scene.
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I feel this way because I am a passionate and vocal feminist and identify staunchly as a strong woman, but I express my gender in an androgynous way — I wear female, male, and unisex clothing, have a VERY short pixie haircut, and tend to present fairly masculinely (I am often mislabeled as a lesbian by those who incorrectly associate androgyny/masculinity with lesbianism).
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Even the song Oliver dances to — which he loves and comes up again in the film — is the Psychedelic Furs' "Love My Way," part of a post-punk tradition of androgyny (they also sang "Pretty in Pink") that is less about celebrating femininity than it is about the cultural cachet of straight men who are "man" enough to be girly.
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FKA twigs (born Tahliah Debrett Barnett) is a dancer and video director as well as a musician, and with her visual projects and concerts she takes on extreme female roles: a larger-than-life goddess, a woman who fights against being smothered, a body in bondage, a student of the proud androgyny of vogueing and, lately, a cosmic pole dancer.
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For example, just recently I did a film of me performing one of my poems, which is sort of about androgyny and gender, and I did it naked, and it was filmed and it will be on YouTube soon, because I thought, you know, I've had an open door and an open heart and I've had a naked mind, but I haven't had a naked body.
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It is also a way to establish difference and a distinct identity; most girls like X, but I like Y. Whether aggressively masculine in Elvis's case or treading the line of femininity and androgyny like Sinatra and the Beatles, none of these stars were examples of the all-American boy that girls were supposed to be looking for in boyfriends and husbands, which was a large part of their appeal.
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