Sunday, 3 December 2017

Gender Blurring Podcast

http://blog.euromonitor.com/2016/03/gender-blurring-a-top-consumer-trend-for-2016.html

"We have only to look at various media pieces and blogs celebrating the rejection of gender stereotyping and saluting and androgynous style"

"Gender blurred reality"

"Destabilising energy is descending upon fashion where the standards of what is acceptable or attractive has changed. The time has come to build an armour of ones own"

- Discussing catwalk trends within 2016 feb issue

- Playboy


"Leatrice Wiseman she's executive director of Pantone  the colour matching system that sets a global industry standard, explained in a recent press release and I quote her 'In many parts of the world we are experiencing gender blurring as it is relates to fashion which has in turn impacted colour trends throughout all other areas of design. This more unilateral approach to colour is coinciding with societal movements towards gender equality and fluidity. The consumers increase comfort using colour as a form of expression which insures a generation that has less concern being typecast or being judged."

Caitlyn Jenner
Jayden Smith
Artistic Direction of Louis Vitton

"Trailblazing role"

"Wearing a shirt comes naturally to him as it would a woman who long ago granted herself permission to wear a mans trench or tuxedo, so for him there are parallels between todays shift and revolutionary change in the past."

- Nicolas Qhesquiere of Louis Vitton 

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