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The Real Stars of New York Fashion Week Were These Dogs and Cats and Pigs

They’re beauty and they’re grace, they’re puppers from outer space!

By Heather Hogan| February 13, 2020 | 14 Comments
Fashion/Style

PHOTOESSAY: dapperQ’s NYFW “Pursuit” Celebrated Queer Style as a Radical Act Of Resistance and Self-Care

Autostraddle sent Reneice Charles and Molly Adams to capture the spirit of the sixth annual dapperQ fashion show at Brooklyn Museum; here are Reneice’s reflections and Molly’s photographs.

By Molly| September 9, 2019 | 3 Comments
Fashion/Style

PHOTOESSAY: All The Queers Were Equally Hot at Los Angeles’ First “Equality Fashion Week”

Los Angeles’ first “Equality Fashion Week” featured incredible queer and trans designers on the rooftop of a fancy hotel and we had fun!

By Riese| October 9, 2018 | 9 Comments
Fashion/Style

PHOTOESSAY: dapperQ’s “Dress Code” Made Your Queer Dreams Come True at New York Fashion Week

In its 5th year, dapperQ continued to throw the most inclusive New York Fashion Week runway event, and it was amazing.

By Molly| September 10, 2018 | 7 Comments
Fashion/Style

PHOTOESSAY: Building a R/Evolution With DapperQ at New York Fashion Week

This year dapperQ took over the Brooklyn Museum with hundreds of queers to host the largest representation of LGBTQ designers and celebration of our bodies at New York Fashion Week.

By Molly| September 18, 2017 | 5 Comments
Fashion/Style

PHOTOESSAY: Queer Fashion Week 2016

Queer Fashion Week in Oakland, CA was full of beautiful humans and powerful fashion. Take a look!

By Molly| October 6, 2016 | 9 Comments
Fashion/Style

Day in the Life: Stuzo With dapperQ at New York Fashion Week

Last week, Molly accompanied LA-based Stuzo to New York Fashion Week’s largest queer fashion show, iD, presented by dapperQ.

By Molly| September 15, 2016 | 4 Comments
Fashion/Style

Queer New York Fashion Week: A Parade of Bold Ideas and Fresh Faces

With the stunning Beaux-Arts Court at the Brooklyn Museum as its backdrop, eight queer designers donned their queer, trans, fat, brown and disabled models in an exclusive first look at this season’s boldest, brightest, queerest and most dapper Spring/Summer collections.

By Hannah Hodson| September 21, 2015 | 5 Comments
Fashion/Style

Finding Community, Small Talk and Alternative Lifestyle Haircuts at Queer Fashion Week

“Queer Fashion Week wasn’t just about an aesthetic. It was about our community beyond just our sexualities, about body positivity, about representation, about celebrating and supporting each other in all things queer.”

By Robin| April 24, 2015 | 4 Comments
Fashion/Style

We’re Doing It Our Way: A Queer Fashion Week Photo Essay

“Yes, the queers have always been a force in fashion, but they’ve been behind the scenes. Queer Fashion Week puts us in the spotlight. The mission was to showcase artists, stylists, and designers who create work for all body types and genders.”

By Molly| April 21, 2015 | 28 Comments
Fashion/Style

Luxe Looks to Street Style: Highlights From Fashion Weeks Around The World

Some important looks for Spring/Summer 2015 in no particular order: sheer stripes, mechanics’ suits, Chuck Taylors, lemon yellow, white cornflower blue and co-ordinates/suiting.

By Lydia O| October 4, 2014 | 20 Comments
Fashion/Style

DJ Whitney Day & DapperQ’s Runway Show Featured Hot Dandy Looks, Threw One Dangerously Danceable Party

“Once my people were maligned; tonight we are the talk of the town.”

By Laura Mandanas| February 19, 2014 | 12 Comments
Fashion/Style

You Should Go: DapperQ Fashion Show Extravaganza

The DapperQ Fashion Show, is an act of revolt. It’s a fist in the air for dykes, queer people, gender neutral people, trans people, all the fucking fabulous beautiful people to shout We belong here and We will create our own spaces.

By gabby| January 31, 2014 | 9 Comments
Fashion/Style

Marimacho Showcases Under-the-Sea Styles for Grrls and Bois at NYFW

The great tides of fashion are ahead! Come scope the massive styles (and cute bois and grrls) under the sea in Atlantis 2050: Marimacho’s Spring/Summer 2014 New York Fashion Week debut!

By Lizz| October 2, 2013 | 22 Comments
Fashion/Style

dapperQ Infuses New York Fashion Week With Racial Diversity, Multifarious Gender Realness

dapperQ teamed up with Whitney Day Events to co-produce a diverse runway show for the unconventionally masculine during New York Fashion Week.

By dapperq| September 11, 2013 | 4 Comments
Fashion/Style The Scene

You Should Go: Marimacho’s New York Fashion Week Debut

Marimacho is having their 2014 Spring/ Summer Collection runway show and New York Fashion Week debut! Come gawk at the hot runway bois and then dance with me at the after party!

By Lizz| September 5, 2013 | 12 Comments
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You Should Go: Hot Rabbit’s Fashion Week Queer Dance Party Extravaganza

Hot Rabbit and DapperQ aim to recognize the importance of queer voices in the fashion world. So come out, come out, wherever you are, you sexy fashionable Dapper queermos.

By gabby| February 12, 2013 | 4 Comments
Fashion/Style

Fashion Week Gallery: 50 Lesbian & Bisexual Fashion Models

50 lesbian and bisexual fashion models, because it’s fashion week!

By Riese| February 16, 2012 | 34 Comments
Fashion/Style

Queering Fashion Week: Tasha Tilberg’s Gay-Married & Freja Beha’s Busy

Fashion Week’s gayest elements/models (Tasha Tilberg married her girlfriend! Adam Lambert is getting cozy in the front row with a special man!), including Jenny Shimizu and memories of Amanda Moore. Also; Tegan & Sara, Lady Gaga’s Brit Awards cleanup, Gabourey Sidibe, Nicki Minaj and Mariah Carey’s new music video and Gawker staff shuffle.

By Riese| February 17, 2010 | 17 Comments

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