Vogue Discovers Gender Fluidity Via a Boy Band Star and a Supermodel's Matching Track Suits
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Nothing will set this post up better than the truth, so here it is: Vogue thinks Gigi Hadid and Zayn Malik are gender fluid because sometimes they wear each other’s clothes.
In an article titled, “Gigi Hadid and Zayn Malik Are Part of a New Generation Embracing Gender Fluidity,” writer Maya Singer opens describing Virginia Woolf’s 1928 novel Orlando, asserting that a passage from it “could easily be mistaken for a manifesto posted yesterday on Tumblr.” (Sure, if you have never read anything before.) She discusses Jaden Smith modeling womenswear, Pharrell Williams wearing pearls, Evan Rachel Wood wearing a tux, Young Thug being Young Thug. “This gender-bending approach to fashion has begun to achieve critical mass in pop culture and on the catwalk,” writes Singer, like the ‘80s never happened—Prince never donned lace, heels, and eyeliner, George Michael never rocked pearls and leather, Annie Lennox never wore her hair cropped and a suit, Boy George was always, unequivocally in his presentation, a boy. (Eventually in the piece, she does admit that Prince and David Bowie did, in fact, happen.)
And then we get to the money shot:
This new blasé attitude toward gender codes marks a radical break. Consider the scene one recent morning out in Montauk, New York, where the photos accompanying this story were shot: Gigi Hadid and Zayn Malik snuggle in interchangeable tracksuits as, nearby, Hadid’s younger brother, Anwar, rocks back and forth on a tire swing, his sheer lace top exposing scattered tattoos. For these millennials, at least, descriptives like boy or girl rank pretty low on the list of important qualities—and the way they dress reflects that.
“I shop in your closet all the time, don’t I?” Hadid, 22, flicks a lock of dyed-green hair out of her boyfriend’s eyes as she poses the question.
Matching tracksuits? If that’s the case then I do believe Waiting for Guffman’s Ron and Sheila Albertson invented the concept of gender fluidity:
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