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Richard Hudson-Miles, Lecturer in Design Cultures, De Montfort University

New V&A menswear exhibition: fashion has always been at the heart of gender politics

The Gucci dress worn by Harry Styles on the cover of Vogue in December 2020 and the black Christian Siriano tuxedo dress worn by Billy Porter to the Oscars in 2019. Fashioning Masculinities, V&A

The image of pop star Harry Styles wearing a Gucci dress on the cover of Vogue in December 2020 garnered much publicity and controversy. It resonated particularly with a gen-Z readership increasingly embracing gender fluidity.

In the accompanying interview, Styles described women’s clothes as “amazing”, insisting that men should not be limited by binary ideas of style. “Any time you’re putting barriers up in your own life, you’re just limiting yourself,” he said.

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