The Male Closet Is Queerer Than Ever

A couple of weeks ago, on my way home, I saw a young man wearing a jacket. It had a gold chain print, kind of like 90’s Versace. He was coming out of the super market, got on his bike and left.

He was the third person I had seen recently wearing something like that. A general rule on fashion is that if you see something twice, it’s a coincidence. If you see it three times though, it’s a trend. I wasn’t really preoccupied with what’s the next big and hot thing for this summer but more about how the visual signature of a house associated with a camp aesthetic had become something so ordinary. Nothing special.

Camp, as we have vividly seen on a previous story about the 2019 Met Gala, is also closely associated with the LGBTQI* community and queerness in general. I may be digressing but what I mean to say is that I don’t really think that boy with the jacket was something random. For I believe that men’s clothes are changing again. Not so much aesthetically, as a fad that will be off-season by next year, but substantially. Decades of protests and fights for equal rights on behalf of the feminist and LGBTQI* movements are showing results, socially, politically — and yes, even sartorially. In other words, while we are trying to redefine the male identity today, we will also end up talking about what that man wears, one way or another.

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