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The great mid-century fashion designers--were they all gay?

I know Halston, Alexander McQueen, Karl Lagerfld, Yves St. Laurent were all homosexualists, but I know nothing about the mid-century designers who came before them.

Christian Dior, Hubert de Givenchy, Cristobal Balenciaga, Pierre Balmain, Norman Hartnell, Charles James, Pierre Cardin, Emilo Pucci... were they as gay as their spring collections?

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by Anonymousreply 10June 23, 2021 7:54 PM

Yesterday, today, tomorrow- all gays…..

by Anonymousreply 1June 23, 2021 5:21 PM

Why would straight men even want to dress women - except in over-sexualized and cheap ways?

by Anonymousreply 2June 23, 2021 5:22 PM

Fuck you OP.

by Anonymousreply 3June 23, 2021 5:51 PM

I know James' granddaughter. So, perhaps bi?

by Anonymousreply 4June 23, 2021 5:51 PM

Can you tell us more about Charles James or his family, R4? I find him fascinating.

I was so looking forward to someone telling his life story... then PT Anderson made the (shitty and hugely overrated) PHANTOM THREAD, which purported to be about James. I hated THREAD. It didn't feel like James or his work at all.

by Anonymousreply 5June 23, 2021 7:31 PM

The genius of Charles James.

[quote] Cristobal Balenciaga is rumored to have said that James wasn't simply America's best couturier but the world's greatest couturier.

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by Anonymousreply 6June 23, 2021 7:36 PM

All I know is Edith Head gave good dress.

by Anonymousreply 7June 23, 2021 7:38 PM

Emilio Pucci was not gay.

by Anonymousreply 8June 23, 2021 7:50 PM

Nor were any of the Guccis or Salvatore Ferragamo.

by Anonymousreply 9June 23, 2021 7:51 PM

R5. But Lesley Mankiller deserved an Oscar for her performance as Cyril, the cryptodyke sister!

by Anonymousreply 10June 23, 2021 7:54 PM
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