Post-androgyny Montreal designer Rad Hourani wages the battle of the sexless at

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Post-androgyny
Montreal designer Rad Hourani wages the battle of the sexless at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in New York

BY Sarah Nicole Prickett   February 23, 2010 16:02

http://www.eyeweekly.com/style/city%20style/article/83951--post-androgyny

"I've always wanted to live a man's life in a woman's body."

That was Diane von Furstenberg quoting... Diane von Furstenberg, in her notes from last week's show at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in New York. Didn't Coco Chanel live by the same maxim in, oh, the 1920s? How far we haven't come.

There were no fierce ->-bleeped-<- inspirations in Furstenberg's show, no drag princesses, no androgynes. Instead, like other top New York designers, she did masculine-feminine in the most literal way: a mix of "menswear influences" and femmey silks and prints. It's unusual for DvF, perhaps. But it's hardly progressive.