Influence on Demand for Big Men Fashion

"Unisex," the industry'south buzzword and symbol for inclusion and variety, is now more than mainstream thanks to brands casting male person and female models for their wait books and designers casting a broader spectrum of genders for their way shows. But with the advent of unisex collections comes a myriad of questions. For one, what makes a drove unisex? Also, where does it fit in a store or web site?

Few retailers, brands and designers are prepare for this movement. Inhabit launched its commencement genderless collection last fall, Norma Kamali changed her storied brand to a unisex label last year, Umit Benan launched unisex line B+ and Equipment is launching a gender-fluid collection in spring 2020.

Nicopanda, Gypsy Sport and Charles Jeffrey Loverboy are among brands cited every bit genderless labels, as well as streetwear firms Aries and Les Tien, and Huemn, the Indian ready-to-article of clothing make and Vogue Bharat Fashion Fund winner that offers gender non-binary pieces on its spider web site. Stefano Pilati introduced fluid men's wear line Random Identities in 2018, which volition be one of the guest presenters at Pitti Uomo, and newer designers such as Mowalola Ogunlesi and Barbara Sanchez-Kane create fluid men's wear offerings for their corresponding labels.

Even global juggernauts like H&1000 and Zara accept tried their paw at genderless collections, with the Denim United line and Ungendered collection, respectively.

Consumers are prepare, especially Gen Z consumers. Phluid Project founder Rob Smith said at the WWD Civilization Conference in November that 56 percent of Generation Z consumers shop "outside their assigned gendered area."

Merely are retailers ready? Selfridges introduced a genderless concept called Agender in 2015, and Finnish retailer Stockmann added a genderless shopping floor called One Way in 2018. There'southward Studio183 in Berlin that started as a pop-up in 2015, offering seasonless and genderless design, fashion and fine art, and operates as a permanent store today. Also, non-binary and gender-fluid shop L'Insane opened in Paris at the start of 2019 and the Phluid Project, which recently closed its shop, adult a formula that shows retailers can be defended to gender-fluid manner.

New and existing manufacture players are making strides to be more inclusive, but how much of the progress is really steps forwards? For 1, established retailers and brands notwithstanding dissever their stores and web sites according to gender, and information technology's for only two genders: men and women. Secondly, the words "unisex" and "gender-neutral" are being used interchangeably to refer to genderless collections, but the collections commonly lean toward i gender.

So, what must exist addressed for things to move forward? Retailers must reassess their merchandising strategies, designers must reevaluate what a genderless collection actually is, and the industry must learn the circumlocution.

The Linguistic communication

Smith at the WWD Culture Conference used a character called the "Gender Unicorn" to illustrate the proper way to address gender and sexuality. He spoke of 5 things related to identity, including the sex 1 is assigned at nascence, gender identity, gender expression, who ane is intimately attracted to so who one is emotionally attracted to.

The parts that are pertinent to way are gender identity and gender expression. To get-go, a person tin can exist assigned one of three sexes at nascency: male, female or intersex. Then comes gender identity, which is what one identifies themselves equally and gender expression, which is how 1 dresses to limited themselves. Smith started his speech communication identifying himself as a "cis man," significant he was assigned male at birth and identifies every bit male.

Why is this of import? Smith explained at the briefing that when he was young, sexuality and expression were lumped together, "but now it'due south all about separating your sexual orientation with your gender identity."

Christina Zervanos, caput of public relations at Phluid Project, said the non-binary consumer "combats the word unisex, because information technology has the discussion sex in information technology. For a lot of people, it speaks to sexuality when it'due south near how you lot identify yourself."

"Gen Z is begging for the non-binary linguistic communication," Zervanos said. "It takes a lot of learning and unlearning." According to Pew Research Center, 35 pct of Gen Z is familiar with gender-neutral pronouns, followed past Millennials at 25 percentage. Throw in Gen 10 at 16 percentage and the full number of people familiar with gender-neutral pronouns reaches 76 percent.

Smith also said at the conference, "If I was going to represent a young community, especially a gender-expansive young community, I demand to larn the language."

"Personally, I notice there is a difference between the two terms," said Brigitte Chartrand, Ssense senior manager of women'due south wearable ownership. "Unisex feels like an older term, which refers to designs that are not made for a specific body blazon. Whereas gender-fluid is more of a loose term that tin can be applied to clothing that embraces or rejects typical gender norms of pattern. Regardless of specific definitions, I think both terms are nigh welcoming a community of like-minded individuals with a focus on inclusivity."

Montreal-based retailer Ssense embraces gender-fluid manner through store buys that mistiness the distinctions between men's wear and women'due south vesture. Though the Ssense homepage opens with "store men" and "shop women," Chartrand said the lines have been blurred for five years and merchandising is determined by aesthetics, if a product appeals to the Ssense customer, and years of buying data.

"We don't categorize our brands every bit 'unisex' or 'gender-fluid'," Chartrand said. "We've had this approach for many years. Our audience is predominantly anile between xviii and 34, so they're generally more open-minded and readier to embrace new ideas. It's more about differences than difficulties. Cutting, fit, sizing and styling can all exist major considerations."

Ssense Montréal

Ssense Montréal Courtesy Photograph

Many brands are adopting the language, describing their gender-neutral collections as genderless, like Official Rebrand, the genderless label from non-binary designer and creative MI Leggett. They actually coined the term "gender-costless."

"Gender is non a stock-still thing," said Leggett, whose pronouns are they/them. "I'd never heard people utilise the term gender-free when I started the make. It'due south kind of a play on gluten-free. If you don't tolerate gluten, you don't have to swallow it, so I thought it was a funny play. A lot of people utilize gender-neutral. That feels a little stale to me. Free implies more than freedom. Agender, genderless, at that place's so many means to draw your ideology as a brand. It all depends on what you really hateful. So to me it's gender-costless."

The Design

Brands and designers are falling into the trap of producing a garment and slapping on the title "genderless" despite a piece leaning more toward men's wear or women's wear. Typical genderless garments are either oversize, formless and shapeless or are formfitting. Women have worn traditional men'southward wearable or men'south wear-inspired pieces for and so long that now those pieces tin really no longer be described equally men's wear-inspired.

Men adopting women'southward garments didn't translate as seamlessly, however. For instance, Kanye W wasn't met with much favor when he wore a leather kilt by Riccardo Tisci for Givenchy during the "Watch the Throne" bout, but the look did help popularize the opposite layering trend from the mid-2010s (W comments that the kilt looks like a long T-shirt in the Watch the Throne tour backside-the-scenes spider web serial, Voyr). On the flip side, the Celine spring 2011 silk foulard shirt by Phoebe Philo is a grail in the men'southward habiliment community considering of West, who helped popularize the piece at Coachella in 2011, and afterward Travis Scott, who donned the blouse in 2018.

Louis Vuitton stirred conversations past casting Jaden Smith for its women's spring 2016 campaign. Rapper Lil Uzi Vert received praise on social media and in media outlets for wearing a kilt to the Thom Browne Thanksgiving football in November, just Young Thug has had mixed reactions for his fluid way choices. Dennis Rodman was lambasted for his style choices in the mid- to belatedly-Nineties, but Harry Styles had a successful Met Gala moment in 2019 in a sheer Gucci shirt, following in the footsteps of Marc Jacobs, who wore a sheer Prada tiptop at the Met Gala in 2012.

Several brands have adopted the genderless distinction, merely none quite like Rad Hourani, who was i of the first fashion designers to establish a unisex, gender-neutral label in 2007. Hourani said he never desired to exist a mode designer. He began developing his ain line later he held an art exhibition for neutral clothes, which he described as "a tornado success where I started selling to department stores around the world." Hourani noticed subsequently moving to Paris at age 23 that all things were categorized according to "race, gender, age," including fashion.

"When I speak of neutrality, I speak of any gender or non-gender," he said. "Unisex is free of any gender categorization or limitation. Clothing is a subject in which I can express myself and my vision around neutrality in full general. Expressing gender neutrality is a big part of what I do. There have been unisex pieces like sneakers, jeans, T-shirts, but to create a full high-end collection for thirteen years now, I needed to create my own base and sizes."

Hourani sizes his garments from 0 to iii and translates his sizing to more traditional sizing. For case, a belted coat in size 2 is the equivalent of a size medium, a U.S. men'due south 38, U.K. men'south 38, or Italian men's 48. It's also a size four in U.S. women's sizes, 36 in French women's, eight in U.K. women's, and even a 9 in Japanese women's sizing. The pants waist size equivalent is 29 to 31.

"In the past ii years, [genderless fashion] became a bigger subject, but what I notice the near is they apply designs that are loose-fitting, but I think it'south a much deeper look at unisex morphology. In that location's nada new about making a woman masculine or a man feminine. That's not unisex, that'south making ane the other," Hourani said. "For androgynous, y'all can't tell, but information technology's not unisex. Unisex is free of any gender categorization or limitation."

He also sees genderless fashion as less restrictive than gendered fashion. "If you simply give a human being a dress, yous're merely limiting him to a apparel. But if you give a human a neutral garment, they will wear it any way they want."

No Sesso SS20

Looks from the No Sesso SS20 runway prove Courtesy Photo

No Sesso, the style label founded past Pierre Davis in 2015, is helping shape genderless fashion. The Italian phrase "no sesso" translates to "no sex/no gender." Davis, like Hourani, started her line as an art project before establishing a proper style collection.

The brand web site offers a tank top and T-shirt in sizes S to XL, though the sizes commonly range from XXS to XXXL, and the brand's runway collection and custom pieces are bachelor upon request.

"Back when No Sesso started, there was barely whatever market for people. Over the last couple of years, in that location's been more than changes, simply I feel like retail spaces even so mix upwards unisex every bit being large, oversize clothing instead of annihilation you desire to wear. Not everything has to await like an apron or a caftan or oversize jeans. I think the sizing needs to exist corrected," said Davis.

Jump-summertime 2020 is a more accessible offering from Davis, with graphic prints of a superhero on jackets, shorts and swimwear. The collection includes airbrushed graphic T-shirts, and multicolor and sequined pieces like cropped tops, jackets, and dresses, short-sleeve tops with i sleeve, and intricate handwork. This compares to fall-winter 2019, which included more dresses and corsets.

Leggett launched Official Rebrand in 2017 though their brand started in 2016. The characterization offers repurposed and reclaimed clothing, one-of-a-kind pieces, and an attainable line of screen-printed styles. Information technology also held events at New York Fashion Week and at Miami Art Basel with Drøme.

Leggett will accept part in New York Men'south Day in February and present a sheathing collection that is an extension of the make.

"I strive to have vesture that can exist worn on multiple trunk types," Leggett said. "One of my closest friends uses crutches and always loves wearing the clothes, and information technology'due south always something I'm concerned almost with the brand. Right now, I produce everything on my own, only in the next year I'll be scaling up."

Leggett distinguishes sizes according to measurements, though a size chart is not provided on the brand's spider web site. Much of the current offering on the site is one size, with the exception of a few pieces, including the "Free from Want" bomber jacket that is available from sizes XS to Twoscore and is made to club. "Most of my work is on assignment. I have a rack of non-binary pieces and never label it past that," they said.

Designer Willie Norris of direct-to-consumer brand Outlier launched his pro-queer brand Willie Norris Workshop in 2018 and held his get-go rails show in June in New York Metropolis. The collection included workwear-inspired ensembles that were adapted to the models cast for the bear witness, many of which were of dissimilar body types and gender identities and made their runway debut at the show. In addition, Norris cast the models before the looks were finalized.

"The manufacture is so predicated on men's wear/women's vesture," Norris said. "Everything is ready to work inside those confines. That doesn't necessarily carp me, because at that place will exist a group of people who are looking for either, which is why I adopted the queer sensibilities."

Norris presented his collection on a range of body types — slender frames, broad shoulders, varying heights and weights. Black, transgender and disabled model Aaron Philip wore the concluding expect of the show. The collection still mirrored most genderless lines today that push T-shirts and jeans, though Norris broke denim conventions with a zippered jacket that can transform into a greatcoat. The brand is offering its signature "Promote Homosexuality" T-shirts and socks on its web site "that sell themselves," according to Norris.

"I'thousand non making clothes that anybody can vesture," Norris said. "My sizing is not universal, it's men's wear rooted. There wasn't annihilation [in the collection] overtly feminine. In that location was 1 dress, just that was nearly similar a nod to my culture. It just made sense to have that there with the denim and workwear."

Norma Kamali last year re-branded her women'southward collection as a genderless line. Men have been wearing her designs since she launched in the Seventies, such as her signature sleeping-bag coat and jumpsuits, just she felt that 2019 was the all-time time to remove gender distinctions. Now her clothes are offered in a new size range and feature new hangtags to signify the change.

"We have multiple sizes for male and female sizes on our web site," Kamali said. "There's ii dissimilar sizes, but they apply to that one garment."

Fluid fashion is nothing new to Kamali. She had seen men in the Seventies wearable traditional women's garments and styles like blouses, lipstick and high-heeled shoes, which was more modern at the time, and she believes that the feeling and energy of that "liberated time" mirrors today. The look book for her spring drove has female and male models in the same collection styled how they wish.

The web site has a gender-fluid size nautical chart that applies measurements to sizes. On the chart, a size S for women translates to a 4 and a 26 waist, while a men's size S is a 4 and 32 waist. The tapered pleat pant is worn by male and female models, and is offered from a size 28 waist to a size 38. The sleeping-bag glaze has two sizes, XS/S and 1000/L.

"How we limited ourselves through clothing is how we come alive, like the balance of feminine and masculine at the same time, which I retrieve more of a gender-fluid description. I know specifically men are buying them, merely if I look at a store we sell to similar Internet-a-porter or Matches, I wouldn't be able to tell which one is male or female," she said.

Model on the catwalk

A expect from the Palomo Spain jump 2020 collection. Dominique Maitre/WWD

"Since I've started, [Palomo Spain] has been tied to agender," said Palomo Kingdom of spain founder and designer Alejandro Gómez Palomo, "but I feel like it's absolute freedom, freedom of choice, and being your most extravagant cocky. I remember freedom is what I crave more in life and what empowers me to have a different chat with men'south wear."

Palomo founded his fashion characterization in 2015 in Madrid subsequently studying at London College of Way. He is now based in Seville in Andalusia, Espana's southern region, where he creates his universe without influence.

He said his label is not strictly a men's habiliment make, though he shows during the men's schedule, and presented most recently in Paris for the spring 2020 drove and will exercise and then again this calendar month. Men comprise 90 percent of the Palomo Espana customer, although Palomo does couture for women. When the make operates pop-ups, women tend to effort and buy all of the product. "I was very stubborn in the beginning, only now I see a real possibility of dressing women," he said.

The Palomo Spain silhouette is "tall and thin, sophisticated, slow-moving," said Palomo, and the make'southward size L is not a "traditional L," co-ordinate to the designer. The make likewise has a size nautical chart with sizes corresponding with measurements taken with breathing. A size L breast is 100 centimeters (the site does not list a unit), which would be a 39-inch chest, and the size L waist is 84 centimeters, or 33 inches.

The leap 2020 collection inspired by Pompeii included white tunic dresses paired with a black brim, caftan tops in sheer chiffon and corsetry, while the fall 2019 runway show was bookended with dramatic dresses. This collection, which is available now, is also comprised of a gold sequined halter top, wrap blouse and a blackness velvet cape, besides as taffeta bomber jackets and satin robes.

"We endeavour to be very democratic in the style we produce clothes," Palomo said. "A lot of pregnant of the business firm is that everyone tin can feel welcome and live a fantasy in their mind. We desire to be very inclusive, but women's shapes modify the stories completely. It'south a very difficult bespeak to get because men and women have different bodies and it's a different line in the pattern making. One time yous put a chest dart in a shirt it looks awkward on men. But we're working on shaping for women at the fourth dimension as well."

Palomo shared more thoughts on gender-fluid fashion today. "When brands do unisex, they're just doing a tracksuit, oversize sweats. Unisex should be something glamorous that could exist for men and for women. We'll demand to find a way and that's what we [at Palomo Kingdom of spain] piece of work to all yr. When we become into the whole word of 'gender' — and I've been promoting from the beginning — that you may feel in betwixt and it's a reality. I don't desire to make that distinction, just when you get on the site you see that it works for both men and women."

Men are styled in the collection on the brand web shop, but women have appeared in editorials. Model Crisgery Stalman is featured in one of the brand's editorials for the fall 2019 collection, "1916."

Designer Ludovic de Saint Sernin also produces inclusive garments and said, "It fits in the gender-fluid world, just for me it'south more the idea of being the garment and existence defined by the wearer. If information technology's on men so it'due south men's wear, if it's on a woman it'south women'southward wear, if it's fluid then information technology'due south fluid."

The 2018 LVMH Prize finalist, 2018 ANDAM prize winner and Woolmark Prize finalist presented in Paris his spring 2020 collection that includes sheer garments that are supposed to look similar someone walking out of water, open-shoulder tops and tops with cutouts that expose the chest. He introduced his first women'due south offer too later on noticing a "real demand on girls wanting to wear the make."

De Saint Sernin designed women'south wearable at Balmain under Olivier Rousteing earlier founding his namesake label. He works with a male fit model, merely since his experience was previously in women's wear, his mannequin is a female body. He is also working with an androgynous fit model "to see a women'south wait and a men'southward look."

"I introduced this dress chosen the swan dress that has done really well," he said. "It was actually a piece I had in my first collection equally an apron dress and worn with a pair of pants, and for spring 2020 I transformed it into a sexy party apparel. A piece that looks like a strictly women's slice comes from a piece that was meant for a guy."

The brand web site is currently offering simply underwear, merely the characterization is bachelor on Farfetch, Matchesfashion, Totokaelo and Garmentory under men's wear and at 50'Insane. L'Insane is the just retail partner that does not classify the brand as men'southward wear, because the web site does not specify collections by gender. Garmentory has a unisex section on its spider web site, but merchandises Ludovic de Saint Sernin in men'southward habiliment.

The Retail

When selling the collection to retailers, de Saint Sernin said, "The message that we have is so articulate that when the buyers come in, they know if it will work for them and if it won't work for them. We sell directly to buyers, information technology'southward a very 18-carat human relationship."

Nevertheless, gender-fluid style does not have a proper home at retailers that adhere to gendered fashion, with the exception of the newer non-gender-conforming stores that take opened, or longtime retailers similar Selfridges and Stockmann that have launched shops dedicated to gender-fluid fashion.

New York-based Totokaelo has women's and men's sections on its web site, but is "non afraid to blur lines betwixt categories and genders," according to Fanny Damiette, director of make and marketing strategy for Totokaelo'due south parent company Demand Supply. The Totokaelo Archive drove that made its debut for spring 2019 featured a pleated skirt for men and sheer shirts in organza.

"Archive was created for this person," Damiette said. "We doubled downwardly and have products that are genderless. There'due south a consciousness of beingness mindful of different torso types and genders, but since our client is more than on the mature side, we are well enlightened of that and it'due south definitely in our mind in terms of sizing and proportion."

Despite the push button for gender inclusion, the retailer cannot be a fully gender-fluid store nevertheless. "Nosotros have to merch the site with women's and men's and it's a tricky thing," Damiette said. "Right at present, we tin can't, merely information technology's on our radar."

She added, "In the store, it's more interesting because hither nosotros tin mistiness the lines in a more interesting way. We still accept a women'southward and men'due south side, just since it's physical, our customers get from one side to the other."

Totokaelo Archive

A wait from the Totokaelo Annal collection. Courtesy Photo

Ssense too embraces fluidity. Chartrand said "Blurring the lines between women's wear and men's wear feels very authentic to our ownership direction and we've had this approach for many years."

The openness is exhibited through the various brand mix, which includes Palomo Spain and Jil Sander-plus, among others that are either genderless brands, encourage all genders to shop their collections, or claiming traditional men'south wear conventions and norms. Ssense hosted a Random Identities runway show at its headquarters, featured Aries founder Sofia Prantera on its web site, and recently had an interview with 69, the Los Angeles-based non-demographic clothing brand.

"Since 2014, we have always blurred the lines between what 'belongs' where in terms of women's wear and men's article of clothing," said Chartrand. "We have and continue to purchase men's habiliment brands like Raf Simons, Wales Bonner, Mowalola for the women's wear side of Ssense.com, buying a women's wear knit or jacket and uploading it on a male model and making it available to the men's wear side. It's always been part of our buying direction to non buy brands or items strictly equally women'due south wear, men's wear, or even 'unisex'."

Just Chartrand said Ssense has no plans to open up a dedicated genderless section.

At the recently closed Phluid Project brick-and-mortar store, the buying process followed a designer open call every Tuesday, and brands were accustomed to the store co-ordinate to their mission and concept. "We take an ongoing artist residency program, taking Gen Z into consideration and having a high-low lens for all those that appreciate not-binary fashion," said Zervanos.

The shop carried brands such as Levi's, Fila, Dr. Martens, Champion, Chrishabana, Gypsy Sport, Happy Socks, Heurueh, Nicopanda, Vasilis Loizides, WeSC and Wilde Vertigga, amidst others. Only Levi's, Fila, Happy Socks and Heurueh are available on the Phluid web site at present.

"The starting time thing we often practise is go to their Instagram page, what is their casting?" said Zervanos. "You lot can await at a 9-image grid and know if they're gender-inclusive or not."

Only how do designers sell to stores that are gender-specific? Palomo said Opening Ceremony, his first retail partner, bought his make for the women's section, but moved the collection to the men's department after more than men were buying. He said the retailer clued him in to men buying the make. Palomo sells to men or women depending on the retail channel.

Rad Hourani said he had requested stores merchandise his collections in men's and women'due south sections or create a unisex section if they did not want to stock the brand in either section.

"I of the major online stores, we had to really dispute every fourth dimension and finally we stopped selling to them and now they shoot unisex," Hourani said. "I don't think all of the stores really understand the distribution of unisex yet. I hope information technology's not just a trend moment."

Norris said, "My plan for the time beingness is I don't want to work in any sort of traditional wholesale model. I'grand in a fortunate place right now, because I practise accept a full-time job that I really like so I'm not in a rush to blow this thing up and become wholesale accounts at the end of the year. My dream is to have one to five products, identifiable signature styles that tin carry the brand."

"I find most commercial floors alienating," said Leggett. "If yous get into a big store, the way the stores are laid out is very binary and with mannequins saying this is how you should be."

In regard to selling their collections to stores, Leggett said, "I definitely trust other people to tell the make story as well. If you're running a shop, yous should feel passionate most the make."

The Future

No ane knows for certain what the future holds in terms of shopping trends, but what is known is that 56 per centum of Gen Z consumers shop outside of their assigned gendered area. The generation is too slowly entering the workforce, with just a small majority there today. By 2030, the youngest member of Gen Z volition exist 20 years old.

The generation has a ownership power of $143 billion, and an influence of upwardly to $200 billion, according to Smith at the Culture Briefing, and that is before all members take entered the workforce.

Millennials, the 2d largest grouping to take gender-inclusivity, were projected last year to take a buying ability of $1.4 trillion in the U.S. annually and represent 30 percent of total retail sales, according to Accenture.

Regardless of which generation is leading the charge, consumer spending will have an bear on on the industry and its shift.

"We're already showtime to run across a shift in the industry through multiple waves; through casting of androgynous, trans and gender non-conforming models, as well as combined women'south clothing and men'due south wearable runways," said Chartrand. "We're seeing the shift take place through how products are existence bought, whether it's unisex, gender-fluid items, or women's clothing items on the men'south vesture side. I'm sure the success of brands like Telfar is inspiring to new designers who volition sally in coming years with this inclusive mentality."

"I think considering the gender subject has been raising up in the by five years that it'southward all over the world," Hourani said. "It'south definitely considering we talk about gender in then many ways."

"The 2020s is going to exist more progressive," said Davis. "I definitely see things shifting a lot more and already things have shifted. Brands need someone on the pattern team who absolutely gets it and having fit assay with all different fits instead of the same models they use. I do see a alter hopefully in the new year and new decade brings more than awareness and allows more people to participate in fashion."

"I think the problem is the industry is not that progressive," said Tibi designer Amy Smilovic. "This industry recycles people all the time and doesn't allow in new people all the time."

Smilovic had been inspired past men's tailoring when she founded her label 22 years ago, and prior to unveiling men's wear, she bandage male models for her runway shows "to accept abroad that overly feminine feeling," Smilovic said. The brand office is "30 percent male," she added, and "it was starting to feel more than and more incorrect that I didn't have things they could article of clothing hands equally well."

She said, "As a mom of two sons who are Gen Z, they don't care if something is men's or women's at all. The younger generation is growing upwards in this globe where they're driven by what they like. They don't discern past men's and women's. Nosotros live in Greenwich [Conn.] and one of my son's all-time friends transitioned and it's a part of their daily conversations with their friends."

Palomo said, "I recollect this decade is going to be a actually big modify. It was big in the Twenties and I'm expecting the 2020s to exist the same."

He said he believes men's wear volition exist of more importance and will "hopefully" merge with women'southward vesture for a non-binary customer.

"I know a lot of retailers are playing into that already," he said, "only everyone is kind of scared then it'll exist up to society to dictate that. In manner, nosotros have very optimistic views of the future, but we don't know what'south going to happen."

Leggett said, "I retrieve that people are starting to realize these norms are just norms and don't actually make that much sense for beingness comfy. The fact that [New York Men'southward Day] recruited me and actively recruited gender-free brands says a lot. This is just the outset and I think information technology really comes through with queer creatives. This is our lives, this isn't a trend."

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