In the spirit of the exhibition Zanele Mulholi: Isibonelo/Evidence, we teamed up with dapperQ, bklyn

In the spirit of the exhibition Zanele Mulholi: Isibonelo/Evidence, we teamed up with dapperQ, bklyn boihood, Posture Magazine, and DYDH Productions to present VERGE, the largest queer New York Fashion Week style event. The VERGE Collective will feature the fall collections of eight designers whose work embodies the enigma of a vastly diverse aesthetic that is at once chaotic and orderly. The collective is inventively engaging diverse audiences by asking the question, “What is queer style?” Here is how some of our designers have begun to define and depict this evolving question:“Queer style is empowerment through clothing. Allowing the individual to express their true self, independent of the social paradigms of gender." —Fabio Costa of NotEqual"Queer style isdressing in whatever makes you feel comfortable, regardless of any society’s expectations toward what people assigned female should be wearing.” —Karen Quirion of KQK“Queer style is being free as an individual to express my inner nature. I’m talking about a human that is aware of their masculine and feminine energies. Energy ebbs and flows, therefore I don’t see how we can be so fixed in our genders. With queer style societal expectations and conventionality kind of go out the window. It’s more of a gender-bender. It’s freeing!” —SAGA NYC“Queer style is a deeply personal way of dressing that comes from a search and exploration of the self – one that complicates and questions gender norms and societal expectations. Personally, I struggle with labels such as ‘queer style’ because I feel like I don’t purposefully set out to dress ‘queer’ – being queer is a fundamental part of who I am and therefore it affects my decision-making process, but I am mostly interested in freedom – feeling free to dress however I want that day, which usually involves humor and fantasy.”“Queer style is hard to define because being queer is a rejection of a dualistic thinking that would place a person into a category of being this or that; it is more about the disintegration of definitions and therefore has quite a large range of what it can actually look like.” —Lactic“Queer style is owning your own unique style. Being fearless, majestic, comfortable and confident with what you wear.It’s layers, patterns, colours, experimental, real, mash-ups, different and cool. It’s wearing whatever you want because you want to.It’s looking fresh and royal.” —SunSun“Queer style is what we see everyday on and off the runway. It is the mixing of patterns and textures with an assortment of colors that satisfies that individual’s template. It is the notion of daring to be different while just being your self. QUeer style is not a trend. It is the premiere trend, where onlookers take, re-process and re-sell to mainstream society. We are the trendsetters in establishing the direction that fashion travels. It is the bold statements made by the QUeer window installer that causes those customers to run inside and try to put together exactly what was in the window. QUeer style is ‘Quest to Understand Existing Evolving and Revolving’ trends.” —Jag & Co.Join the conversation by tagging your photos or tweets with #VERGENYFW and tell us what queer style is to you.Posted by Lauren Zelaya -- source link

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