While fashion is often considered a luxury out of reach for most people, a whole group of designers is bringing fashion to the streets, finding new ways to make it accessible and relevant to all.
Style has long been one way in which queer people find each other and express the beauty of their difference to the larger world. Queer designers have helped liberate us from convention, often enforced through outdated ideas about what attire is acceptable based on gender and heteronormativity.
This pride season, the following designers caught our attention not just for their aesthetic sensibilities but their devotion to our cause.
justgeo
Do we really have to own the nasty cliche that is Tim Gunn. A gay way deep in menopause?
amanwithanedge
what’s wrong with you? You have a terrible ageist attitude, and you need an adjustment.
Yooper
Well, you’re a nasty little prik with likely much less talent than TG, but we still have to own you.