Porter isn't the first celebrity to push the boundaries of gender binaries. It's important to respect and recognize where culture comes from, but it's also changing and evolving to the needs of our times. But Porter can't claim to own a fashion genre of fashion with a rich history led by countless other transgender and gay people of color-and that's a good thing.
He's made headlines with his distinct style of mixing jackets and trousers with elaborate gowns. Porter is partially right, and also wrong. All he has to do is be white and straight.' I had to fight my entire life to get to the place where I could wear a dress to the Oscars. 'I changed the whole game,' Porter said indignantly in a recent interview with the Sunday Times, describing his impact on gender non-conforming fashion.Īnd then, more directly taking a shot at Vogue and Styles: 'He doesn't care, he's just doing it because it's the thing to do. The latest public figure weighing in on the musician's choice to wear both men's and women's clothing in his feature last winter is actor and singer Billy Porter-and not in a fond way.
I guess we're still not over Harry Styles in a dress on the cover of Vogue. Billy Porter at Elizabeth Taylor Ball to End AIDS in West Hollywood, in September.