#harry vogue

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In my opinion, people complaining about the queerbaiting/etc shouldn't put the pressure or point the hate on Harry, they should put it on the industry and other actors.

Let me explain: I GET the frustration of a big part of the queer community that see Billy Porter, an openly queer and POC known person, who has been breaking gender rules for years and that now see Harry, a white and "publicly" straight dude getting the first ever man VOGUE cover, and doing so wearing a dress. And I GET their complaints, because VOGUE did only chose Harry to do that because on the public eye Harry Styles is still a womanizer who likes to sleep with older women (and still white), so "it's okay" for him to break and play with the gender/queer lines, because he is still "every womans dream". Meanwhile POC and other openly queer people don't get near the same opportunities despite working towards achieving them for years and years.

I totally get that sentiment, but that has nothing to do with Harry: go on hate on Anna Wintour for her choice if you want, go and ask for more queer and non-white people to get the same opportunities because they surely deserve them. But don't go hate on Harry because you don't know his identity, you don't know how he identifies himself or the position he is in. Point your critics to the ones who are making those decisions, the ones that are calling the shots in the industry and NOT on someone who is just taking an opportunity that has been given.

Hi honey. That’s my general thought, as well. The industries and people in charge are so fucked up. I really do get the upset people had over POC not being recognized (or actively being harmed) for doing many of the same things Harry was being praised for. I guess I look at it from the the point of view that Harry turning down the cover of Vogue wouldn’t mean they’d turn to someone like Billy instead. But by Harry being on the cover in a dress and being so visible, it brings the conversations about masculinity, gender norms, genderless fashion, as well as the conversation about race and even LGBT history etc, to people and places that otherwise might never have talked about those things.

Does it suck that the music/film/fashion industries are racist and stuck in an era they should have long moved forward from? Absolutely. I just don’t see how hating Harry accomplished anything. All it did, IMO, is take away from the bigger conversations which are very much needed.

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details of the gucci gown harry styles wore on the cover of vogue, displayed at the “fashioning masculinities” exhibit at the v&a

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Harris Reed- RTW Fall 2023

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harry winston ads featuring black cats (1948)

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Debbie Harry for Vogue, 1994

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Harri Peccinotti - Marsha Hunt Wearing a Outfit by Ossie Clark (Vogue UK 1968)

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“I’m in awe of the man with enough one-liners for a lifetime.”

-Harry on feeling lucky to be painted by artist David Hockney. (2 August 2023)

via Vogue

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Harry being painted by David Hockney, by Vogue.

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Sophia Loren by Henry Clarke, US Vogue, Sept. 1958

"Sophia Loren, famous as a torrent of movie sex, looks offstage like a dip of coffee ice cream, cool, beautiful, and soothing…Relaxed and aware, she likes to pose with music playing, music with a pronounced beat -- Sinatra, Belafonte. She knows her face objectively, never shows her profile, always shows the tiptilt of her green-grey eyes. Here she wears her own short black brocade Scaasi dress with the neckline she loves. Neither a creamy Titian nor a thin girl, she is a young woman; after Loren, bones are boring."

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Debbie Harry for Vogue UK Magazine, 1990.

Photographed by Michel Haddi in London, England.

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https://www.standard.co.uk/comment/harry-styles-is-a-gay-icon-queerbaiting-b1136121.html

Hi Gina, Have you seen this article?

No. But thank you. I really love what the author had to say! Usually I highlight a few key comments, but I found myself highlighting almost the entire article.

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And that is all well and good, however there does come a time Harry Styles deserves some respect. We know he wasn’t the first man to ever wear a dress. Still, his appearance on the cover of American Vogue in December 2020 felt like a moment. Yes ok, he has pinched a few styling tips and lyrical flourishes from the great male frontmen of our times (David Bowie, Freddie Mercury, Mick Jagger, George Michael, et al). But like Bowie caused a scandal by wearing a Mr Fish dress on his album cover in 1971, Styles does too every time he flaunts another disco coloured, nipple-grazing jumpsuit. At least someone is still trying to push the boundaries.

More than that, though, Styles’ persistent drip feeding of all things “flamboyant” — on the fashion front, credit must go to his longtime stylist Harry Lambert — is exactly the antidote a world in a toxic masculinity choke-hold needs. His own range of unisex nail varnishes? Great. Pictures of him stomping about in little heeled booties and a pearl necklace? It really is delightful to see.

His relationships with queer creatives are a convincing testament to him as a person, too. He launched gender fluid designer Harris Reed’s career when he wore a selection of his blouses on tour in 2018. He did too for S.S.Daley, another queer-centric label, which the singer gave a leg-up to stardom by spotlighting it in his 2020 Golden music video. Taking his support a step further, this month it was announced Styles bought a minority share in the brand.

And on set, the stories that come back are similar. Pat Boguslawski, the movement director best known for his current role at Martin Margiela under John Galliano, worked with Styles on his viral 2020 Beauty Papers cover shoot. Yes, the one where he is naked save for fishnets and loafers.

“He was just incredible,” Boguslawski told me in a recent interview. “It was fascinating to work with someone who is a male but at the same time so open minded and willing to do anything.” First hand testimonies are a good place to start when it comes to reading mega-stars who have their image so tightly controlled (often it’s near impossible to get any sense of true character).

While Styles has not spelled out his queerness in black and white, every plumed, pink ostrich feather coat he normalises makes it a little bit easier for those wanting to express themselves in peace and safety.

It shouldn’t be like that. In fact, it’s sickening. But that’s not Styles’ fault — and by putting it to the forefront of pop culture, he is doing the LGBTQ+ community a solid. To my mind, that is something worth applauding, not tearing down.

Full article here

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Nicola Coughlan attends Vogue World: London (Sept. 14 2023)

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Harris Reed- RTW Fall 2023

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harris reed fall 2023 rtw

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DEBBIE HARRY for BRITISH VOGUE MICHEL HADDI | NYC, 1994 [digital inkjet print | 19 7/10 × 14 4/5"]