The NYTimes Crossword is a classic crossword puzzle. We mustn’t deny ourselves that in our wardrobe.Civil rights icon Parks Crossword Clue NYT. Keeping your teeth clean and bathing daily is good for your mental health. No matter how you identify, your existence must have sensuality. Men will wear skirts when it’s all one shopping experience and it stops being separated by gender. We’re on our way there, and it’ll change faster than we think. It’s deeply rooted in the industry and needs to change along with the culture. There’s a men’s designer and a women’s designer. There’s a men’s buyer and a women’s buyer. Every fashion business has gender in play. The only hold-up is the old fashion institution. WC: We’re in this transition period with our wardrobes right now. In your opinion, what will it take for skirts to become a mainstream clothing item for men? ĭD: You’ve offered some of the most viable skirt options in menswear. It’s OK for some straight people to be cisgender. They’re not toxically masculine, and they exist. I have a lot of nonqueer, masculine people on my team and in my network that are just down-ass fools. I often think about Tom of Finland’s hypermasculinity mixed with femininity. There’s toxic masculinity, but I’ve always believed in showing and toying with masculinity’s loving side. But I’ve always believed that masculinity isn’t always toxic. WC: Well, there’s no way around our issues with masculinity in Latinx culture. It’s about feeling as beautiful as you are.ĭD: You find new shades of masculinity in your designs every season. It’s feeling empowered and having a relationship with the greater good. It’s about wearing clothes that make you feel good. It’s the truest form of appreciation for what that person is. It doesn’t mean someone who is incredibly sexy - it’s not that form of dignity. WC: It’s being shown in a way that is respected. We’re showcasing our beauty on a higher fashion level, but we’re always conscious of how we connect with people, share culture, and give respect and dignity to the source material. As long as we maintain that sincerity, we won’t be at risk of commercializing our culture. I’ve ensured that our team reflects that. I want to show the entire Latinidad that we’re beautiful. I have a collaboration coming up with FB County, which has yet to be released, but it’s a Chicano gang-related brand of clothing. When my brand first started, there were more literal moments. WC: Latinx culture often gets boiled down to a lowrider or a taco stand within our current media machines.
Since its inception over a decade ago, the brand has steered the conversation about clothes with unmatched inventiveness by continuing to experiment with any given guardrails. It looks like the mood Eckhaus Latta inhabits Image The horizon line of fashion is changing. I know we hear those words all the time, but it’s true, and we’re coming from a place where it’s not the norm.” Sumney spent his adolescence in Riverside among the Chicano culture Chavarria often references in his collections. “Within that beauty, you’ll find what Willy is trying to say.” Both found the collaboration a perfect fit: “Willy and I both approach masculinity with an expansive point of view. “It’s all about form and beauty,” says Sumney. Sumney wore a black silk suit with a large rosette on the shoulder right after it walked New York Fashion Week. It was Chavarria’s first nomination for American Menswear Designer of the Year. Last year, singer Moses Sumney accompanied Chavarria to the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) Awards. The dichotomy of his corporate reach and downtown appeal makes Chavarria a singular force in the fashion industry.
And as of 2021, Chavarria has been the senior vice president of design at Calvin Klein. At the same time, his career has charted across the United States at brands like Joe Boxer, American Eagle and Ralph Lauren. He’s not simply representing Latinidad luckily, he’s letting us see into it. This could be seen as a political act - but more than anything, Chavarria is showing us who he is. At his namesake label, the designer freaks classics like the T-shirt: dropped-shouldered USA crop tops turn the American flag upside down. “No matter what I’m doing,” says Willy Chavarria one day over Zoom, “you’ll always know where I’m from, my influences and my culture.” It’s the social nature of clothes that keeps the California-born, Irish and Mexican American designer’s inspirations close to home. You can purchase the issue in print here. This story is part of Image issue 21, “Image Makers,” our third annual celebration of the homegrown fashion luminaries who are designing a global fashion future built from the L.A.
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