Gender-neutral fashion: fluidity as freedom

Is gender-neutral fashion a future trend? Styles for Spring 2021 saw a
growing number of major brands champion gender-fluid, unisex or polysexual
fashions with Marc Jacob’s “Heaven” capsule and fluid collections from
designers Balenciaga and Stella McCartney. “Marc has long been a believer
that clothing itself is not inherently gendered, rather society norms have
previously determined certain garments are for certain people, (we) see a
great deal of hope in today’s youth, that these limiting ‘rules’ are
increasingly no longer relevant, with a renewed courage to be oneself,”
Eric Marechalle, the CEO of Marc Jacobs International told WWD in a recent
report.

A 2018 study by The Advocate found that the highest number of any generation
up. A quick search on Tik Tok shows that the hashtag for polysexuality has
almost 10,000 views and is still growing as content creators produce more
videos surrounding polysexual identity and polysexual people. On Instagram,
the hashtag has over 1,000,000 tags.

Gender-fluid looks took over New York Men’s Day SS21

During the of the digital event. Apotts,
Ka Wa Key, Official Rebrand, and Wataru Tominaga all presented gender fluid
collections. Apotts’ collection conveyed the message that regardless of
race or gender, we can all enjoy playing dress up. For MI Leggett of
Official Rebrand, gender-fluid fashion has never been a trend, but the
entire antithesis of their brand DNA. This season, the designer, who
identifies as non-binary and uses they/them/their pronouns, focused their
collection on anti-waste urgency and social unrest throughout history.