In 2013’s Full of Fire, Karen Dreijer Andersen sang “let’s talk about gender baby, let’s talk about you and me”. It
seemed that the fashion world listened to her plea; two years of discussion on
gender binaries and gendered clothing ensued. The concept of a woman in “menswear”
is not a new one in fashion. Chanel made it acceptable for women to wear the
trousers way back in the 1930s, and YSL later coined Le Smoking in 1966, a figure enhancing take on the men’s tuxedo which
snowballed in popularity and spawned countless imitations. Recent years have
also seen designers attempt to repurpose the male wardrobe for women – it started
with the boyfriend jean, which was later teamed with the boyfriend blazer and
finally the boyfriend shirt. Essentially, the concept of a gender-bending
wardrobe is not one which is particularly new or radical; if you’re a woman,
that is.
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| J.W Anderson for Loewe |
