Word: unisex
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...indications of something more severe. This insight should further be accompanied with sensitivity to the pressures faced by men: Impressionable thirteen-year-old girls are not the only victims of airbrushed models glossing over the cover of Vanity Fair. Indeed, until these pathologies are consistently perceived as the unisex issues that they are, the stigma, severity and failure to diagnose will increase in tandem with the biceps of a budding bodybuilder who silently bears the weight of an untold disorder...
Less extravagant social situations reveal, if not an expat presence, then at least a foreign one. At the Adam & Eve Salon—“a unisex beauty parlor”—my hair was cut by a black African. But before she laid hands on me, I was greeted, scheduled and asked in sterling English by an Indian employer what should be the fate of my locks. She didn’t speak to her underling in Swahili, the lingua franca of Africa’s Eastern coast, but rather in Hindi. In this place...
While Akira's bejeweled Bonds singlets, eggwhite-stiff linen suits and goatskin man-bags comprised only a sixth of his collection last week, it was a gently giant step for Australian menswear - or should that be unisex wear? "Within women's ready-to-wear collections there are limitations - how many styles can we create?" says Akira, who first showed his reconstructed Aussie male icons last year. "Designers are looking for different lines." If the recent Fashion Week in Sydney is any guide, they are increasingly looking to menswear. New labels popped up as frequently as gelled '80s hairdos while, taking...
...workshops, two prominent Gaypril events, and focus its political activism on the University’s “heteronormativity”—manifest in the group’s most recent project of tallying the gender-specific bathrooms on campus and demanding they become unisex...
...Then Reebok Classics kicked off a limited-edition trend, signing up Japanese artists such as Imai Toons and Risa Fukui to splash its footwear with Japanimation-inspired graphics. Hot on their heels is Y-3, Yohji Yamamoto's collaboration with Adidas. Fashionistas are scrambling to score their futuristic-looking unisex footwear for fall, including the ski-boot-like creation shown here. These are surely not for the foul line. --By Kate Betts