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FABRICATIONS: 14 Fashion Designers Who Are Queering The Fashion Industry
By James Michael Nichols
An examination of how the fashion world intersects with queerness and evolving mainstream conceptions of gender.
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FABRICATIONS: Meet Trans Fashion Designer Gogo Graham
By James Michael Nichols
"Fashion is a reflection of the current state of things, not the other way around."
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FABRICATIONS: Meet Queer Designer Vanessa Newman Of Butchbaby & Co.
By James Michael Nichols
"Clothing that doesn’t make you change who you are just because your body is changing."
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FABRICATIONS: Meet Queer Fashion Designer And Artist Ben Copperwheat
By James Michael Nichols
What does it mean to you to be a queer designer? How does your queer identity intersect with your work? Queer has always
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FABRICATIONS: Meet Queer Fashion Designer Leon Wu Of Sharpe Suiting
By James Michael Nichols
Several years into my adulthood after college, I co-produced one of the first Butch Fashion shows in Los Angeles with Vanessa
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FABRICATIONS: Meet Queer Fashion Designer And Artist Claire Fleury
By James Michael Nichols
I am super grateful for those gallery years. Alesia calls it "A two-and-a-half year durational performance," and that is
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FABRICATIONS: Meet Queer Fashion Designer And Artist Geoffrey Mac
By James Michael Nichols
Geoffrey Mac is a queer fashion designer and artist living in and operating out of New York City. A mash-up of futurism and
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FABRICATIONS: Meet Queer Fashion Designers Jessica Lapidos And Tom Barranca Of TILLYandWILLIAM
By James Michael Nichols
What sets TILLYandWILLIAM apart from other fashion brands? We've spent a lot of time talking about the design aspects of
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FABRICATIONS: Meet Queer Fashion Designer Kyle Brincefield Of Studmuffin NYC
By James Michael Nichols
This is the seventh installment in a series titled "FABRICATIONS" that elevates the work of up-and-coming queer individuals
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FABRICATIONS: Meet Queer Fashion Designer David Siferd Of GODDESS
By James Michael Nichols
Want to see more from GODDESS? Head here to check out the designer's website. Missed the previous installments in this series
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FABRICATIONS: Fashion Designer Julia Shapiro Discusses The Queer Dynamics Of Her Line J SHAP
By James Michael Nichols
It was one tireless night right after graduation that I was grappling with this dilemma and realized it wasn’t me, it was
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FABRICATIONS: Meet Queer Fashion Designer And Artist Vincent Tiley
By James Michael Nichols
I also work really hard to make things visibly queer by quoting existing queer dress like drag, fetish and punk. Though, I
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FABRICATIONS: Meet Trans Fashion Designer Auston Björkman Of Sir New York
By James Michael Nichols
What is your focus for Sir New York? Do you specifically intend for your designs to be for the queer and trans community
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FABRICATIONS: Meet Queer Fashion Designer Becca McCharen Of Chromat
By James Michael Nichols
Where have your designs appeared? We've worked with Beyonce, Madonna, Nicki Minaj, Twigs, Iggy Azealia, Azealia Banks, Haim
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FABRICATIONS: Meet Queer Fashion Designer BCALLA
By James Michael Nichols
Lady Gaga performing in BCALLA. Want to see more from BCALLA? Head here to check out the designer's Instagram. Missed the