Gender-Neutral Clothing on the Runways at Fashion Week SS22
Fashion Is For Everyone, So Why Am I Still Downloading Runway Looks For "Men" or "Women"?
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Francesco Risso's show for Marni, one of my personal favourites from the season, utilised stripes drawn in every which way to connect the clothing from person to person. The models, with all different body types, wore the clothes with confidence — like they had proudly picked out these outfits themselves. The show notes began with a poem, "Wear We Are": "Here, where we are and ear, what we wear is what we are. / Where we are, one we are, for what we wear," it reads, followed by a descriptive summary: "Either covered or revealed, the individuality of the body is intensely present, felt in its energy, breath and skin, alive, ready for contact, connected."