Gender-bending the future of fashion?

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Gender-bending the future of fashion?
BRONWYN WILLIAMS
Last updated 05:00 19/01/2011

http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/fashion/4553292/Gender-bending-the-future-of-fashion

If 2010 fashion was to be summed up in a word, that word would be androgynous. Anyone, or anything, who pushed the boundaries of sexual identity seemed to tick the right boxes.

There was Lady Gaga gracing the cover of a Japanese Vogue Homme magazine as her male alter ego Jo Calderone, while fashion designer Marc Jacobs also dressed in drag for the cover of the latest Industrie magazine. What was once seen as freakish, and even taboo, has gone mainstream.

The cross-sexual wave has been brewing for a while. Stefano Pilati, of Yves Saint Laurent, designed a unisex range for the spring 2009 collection. Givenchy designer Riccardo Tisci topped that by having transsexual Lea T model for the label's latest campaign.