Over recent seasons, conversations around gender have permeated the fashion industry; binaries have been queered on runways from Milan to New York, from Prada and Gucci to Vetements and Hood By Air. There is a new, mainstream understanding of the performativity of gender and its construction by society – but this subversion of stereotypes is actually nothing new at all; it's been explored on paper by pioneers like Radclyffe Halle and Virginia Woolf, in the wardrobes of Marlene Dietrich and…
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