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A short historical reminder is necessary.
At all times men have put on make-up. In the time of King Louis XIV, they put white powder on the face and red on the cheeks. At the court of Louis XVIII, it was indispensable to be noticed by the king and appearing more handsome and more aristocratic.
In the past, the boyish style of Coco Chanel in 1915 was a revolution and liberation; the Yves Saint Laurent women’s tuxedo, or the men’s skirt at Dior had already jostled the genres.
In 1971, David Bowie was scandalous about the album cover “Hunky Dory,” where he appears makeup. The years pass, the mores change, and in 1973 he is elected the best dressed British, while the makeup for men is not yet usual.
Ashley Clarke in Mr. Porter article Why Makeup For Men Might Soon Be A Grooming Essential finds an origin in some parts of Asia, where makeup is a normal part of life for young men, driven mainly by celebrity culture and the loosening of traditional norms of masculinity, especially in the movie industry. These influences are slowly arriving in the West, but many men still have a big hang-up about wearing makeup. What about today?
L’Observatoire Des Transidentités (Observatory of Trans Identities) with Karine Solene Espineira in her article Non-binary genres on the Internet and Facebook, reports that it is increasingly known that a minority of the population is transgender, in the sense that the person does not identify with the gender ‘assigned to birth’ from the appearance of its organs genitals, but rather as the other option of the two commonly accepted genres that we find on our administrative documents.
They feel both man and woman, sometimes in the middle; a ‘mix’; ‘Of variable gender’ depending on the circumstances, the day, the year … even some have the impression of being completely foreigners to all that and to be ‘without genre.’
The term ‘genderqueer’ is sometimes seen as an umbrella term (broad, grouping many identities, similar to non-binary), sometimes as an identity in itself (with the emphasis on being ‘other’ by compared to binary genres).
One of this trend website is genderqueerid.com
Genderqueer flag
For Les Bons Détails (The good details), the No Gender is not a light trend but an underground movement that is gradually gaining momentum thanks to the millennials that advocate a freer fashion and a more individualized style. No provocation, no claim, but a desire to be oneself and exceptionally comfortable. The taste is more important than the genre.
GQ journalist Rachel Tashjian in her article 2...
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By Umbert De ParisA short historical reminder is necessary.
At all times men have put on make-up. In the time of King Louis XIV, they put white powder on the face and red on the cheeks. At the court of Louis XVIII, it was indispensable to be noticed by the king and appearing more handsome and more aristocratic.
In the past, the boyish style of Coco Chanel in 1915 was a revolution and liberation; the Yves Saint Laurent women’s tuxedo, or the men’s skirt at Dior had already jostled the genres.
In 1971, David Bowie was scandalous about the album cover “Hunky Dory,” where he appears makeup. The years pass, the mores change, and in 1973 he is elected the best dressed British, while the makeup for men is not yet usual.
Ashley Clarke in Mr. Porter article Why Makeup For Men Might Soon Be A Grooming Essential finds an origin in some parts of Asia, where makeup is a normal part of life for young men, driven mainly by celebrity culture and the loosening of traditional norms of masculinity, especially in the movie industry. These influences are slowly arriving in the West, but many men still have a big hang-up about wearing makeup. What about today?
L’Observatoire Des Transidentités (Observatory of Trans Identities) with Karine Solene Espineira in her article Non-binary genres on the Internet and Facebook, reports that it is increasingly known that a minority of the population is transgender, in the sense that the person does not identify with the gender ‘assigned to birth’ from the appearance of its organs genitals, but rather as the other option of the two commonly accepted genres that we find on our administrative documents.
They feel both man and woman, sometimes in the middle; a ‘mix’; ‘Of variable gender’ depending on the circumstances, the day, the year … even some have the impression of being completely foreigners to all that and to be ‘without genre.’
The term ‘genderqueer’ is sometimes seen as an umbrella term (broad, grouping many identities, similar to non-binary), sometimes as an identity in itself (with the emphasis on being ‘other’ by compared to binary genres).
One of this trend website is genderqueerid.com
Genderqueer flag
For Les Bons Détails (The good details), the No Gender is not a light trend but an underground movement that is gradually gaining momentum thanks to the millennials that advocate a freer fashion and a more individualized style. No provocation, no claim, but a desire to be oneself and exceptionally comfortable. The taste is more important than the genre.
GQ journalist Rachel Tashjian in her article 2...