Gender fluid revolution in Vogue: Harry Styles
appears on the cover of the December issue in a double-breasted men's tuxedo jacket and women's evening dress created for him by his friend Alessandro Michele of Gucci and is immediately controversial.
"Give us back the macho males," protested pro-Trump commentator Candace Owens, sparking a storm on Twitter.
The British singer, who made his big screen debut in Christopher Nolan's "Dunkirk", is the first man to appear alone on the magazine cover.
The choice of 'mise' is not unusual for the 26-year-old superstar of "Watermelon Sugar" who in the past has pushed forward on the binary notion of gender in terms of fashion.
"There is no society that can survive without strong men," right-wing commentator Candace Owens wrote on Twitter: "In the West, the progressive feminization of our men while Marxism is taught to our children is not a coincidence, it is an attack. direct, "Owens said, sparking a storm of protests including that of Olivia Wilde, the actress and director who chose Styles for her next film with Florence Pugh:" You're pathetic. "
Harry, who has 32.6 million followers on Instagram, painted his nails lavender with a lace collar and Mary Jane shoes for the 2020 Brit Awards red carpet.
The year before, at the Met gala he was in. "godfather" (the exhibit was aptly "Notes on Camp"), he showed up in a sheer black organza blouse with lace jabot accessorized with a pearl pendant earring.
It is an interest, that for women's clothes, that comes to Styles since he was a child in a village in the north of England and dressed in masks for performances, he himself confided to Hamish Bowles who interviewed him for the cover story: "Today I find myself looking at women's dresses and I think they are extraordinary".
For Alessandro Michele, Harry "is the image of a new era, of what a man can look like"
and Styles' look is very reminiscent of David Rose, the character created and played by David Levy in the Canadian series "Schitt's Creek" who has made a lot of awards at the last few Emmys.
On the other hand, the former One Direction is not the first man to appear on the cover of Vogue (it has happened nine more times in the magazine's 127-year history), but he is the first not photographed in the company of a woman: in July 2017 the magazine featured another boy-band member, Zayn Malik, next to then-partner Gigi Hadid to show "a new generation embracing gender fluidity": both wore interchangeable Gucci suits, but the choice of a couple straight to illustrate the concept of "gender fluid" was criticized and the magazine was forced to publish a mezzo mea culpa.