More than 70 LGBTQ fashions and eight designers took over the Brooklyn Museum on Thursday night time for dapperQ’s ninth annual queer fashion present, “Presents Nine,” coinciding with the beginning of New York Fashion Week.
Hundreds of attendees crowded the perimeter of the runway, cheering, chanting — and typically screaming — as fashions strutted throughout the stage. The present featured clothes and niknaks from veteran and first-time designers alike, together with Mickey Freeman, Austin Alegria and Keith Kelly. They all showcased work that centered on fashion rooted in gender nonconformity.
While the occasion will not be a part of the official New York Fashion Week lineup, dapperQ, a digital journal devoted to masking queer fashion as a type of activism, deliberately makes its present simply as massive of a spectacle. The concept for the occasion got here to founder Anita Dolce Vita greater than a decade in the past, when she began receiving invites to NYFW exhibits.
“I would come back with very little content that would be relevant to our readers and our communities,” Dolce Vita informed NBC News. “So, I thought to myself, why don’t we just do our own fashion show?”
Buffy Sierra, the present’s emcee and dapperQ’s runway coordinator, mentioned the present goals to function a means of “opening the door to fashion week.”
“Queerness is a political identity, first and foremost,” Sierra mentioned. “At its baseline, it’s something that’s criminalized. It’s something that is targeted. And bringing ourselves on a stage is always going to be a political act.”
