Harry Styles’ Gucci dress
(Picture: Jamie Stoker)Geranium pink silk satin, tiny flowers embroidered in lace and dusty blue, leopard-print frock coats. Oh, to be a man in the 17th century!
But let’s hand-brake turn into 2022 for a minute, when the stakes of masculinity seem as high as ever. In September last year, China’s television controller banned effeminate men on TV, the anti-LGBTQ+ legislation dubbed the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill was passed in Florida this month, and vitriol remains daily for those subverting macho masculinity in their dress. At the same time, we’re bearing witness to a stronghold of male celebrities rising up, as sartorially fluid as ever, while expression on menswear catwalks hits an all-time high.
