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Joshua Gibson - 22 years old - Central St. Martins I knit.

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Truth Coming Out of Her Well to Shame Mankind, 1896 by Jean-Léon Gérôme

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Francis Alys - Sometimes Making Something Leads to Nothing (1997)

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photographed by Kiki Xue for Boycott Magazine

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JUUN.J SS16

Photography Virginia Arcaro.

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032c / BY PIERRE DEBUSSCHERE

art direction @pierredaras - styling @lottavolkova - makeup @ingegrognard - hair @massimomarras - assisting and retouching @ismaelmoumin - production @rebeccacuglietta @zlevin24 @artandcommerce - models @rebelmanagementbe and @tomorrowisanotherday_agency

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Ward Roberts

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I never thought, with all my confidences, and my big head, that I would be the one afraid of life.

Maybe it was always there, maybe I just never saw it, maybe it’s just not as big as I’m seeing it right now. But I am sinking, and I am scared

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Bought a von dutch cap 2nite and now I'm looking at latex crop tops. Begin the old

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“Come, come, ’tis not that she paints so ill—but, when she has finished her face, she joins it on so badly to her neck, that she looks like a mended statute, in which the connoisseur may see at once that the head is modern, though the trunk’s antique.”

When I was 15~ I read this part in The School For Scandal, and it’s been a high bar set since then, to be that much of a cunt in my daily life

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Derek Overfield

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I've been trying for a while to adequately sum up how I feel about gender binary in clothing. Talking with Georgina, there's obviously a lot to be said for removal of a "men's clothes/women's clothes" divide, and the transgression of obliquely wearing a garment from the "other" gender only serves to reinforce the binary we know. A man wearing a skirt may change ones opinion of the wearer, but the garment itself is still resolutely feminine.

So by stepping away from a binary, clothes adopt the power of being genderless and they are understood as nothing overtly feminine or masculine. Clothes become a non-issue with no barriers to expression through social stigma. Wearing what was once understood as clothing for the "other" gender is no more or less appealing than any other choice to be made.

But with the binary in place, the act of the transgression is incredibly seductive. Personally, I know my choice to wear whatever clothing I want is fuelled by my want to feel comfortable/be visually appealing to myself, but it's also aided by the naughty child who wants to break the rules and go against established ideas. I've often said that I don't think western culture will ever adopt men wearing skirts en-masse, and I think that's because I don't want it to. 

Without that culture of "men's clothes/women's clothes" there's no non-compliant subculture that make communities out of those that toe the line. Through wearing all the shit that I do, I am sought out by other like-minded people and equally seek out those who dress in similar ways.

I love clothes, and part of me thinks that taking away a garment's ability to express gender is taking away a lot of it's power. To keep particular garments masculine or feminine isn't unreasonably sexist to me. Instead it gives one the power to embrace the gender attached to the clothes by wearing them.

Of course, the major flaw in my point is that I am only understanding a relationship to clothes through a contemporary (and quite personal) lens. There are countless benefits to those growing up (as I did) wearing clothing not assigned to their gender, and benefits to those in the workplace, where perhaps gender expression is given a lower priority than traditional formality etc.

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In other news, I couldn't find a pair of tweezers today, so I plucked a hair with wire cutters

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Alan Cumming by

David Lachapelle