Cosmopolitan India

FASHION IS NOW FLUID

Kallol Datta 1955

“Gender-fluid fashion is a crude, rudimentary, and myopic term coined to indulge the queer community. Our industry has deep-rooted misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, and classism. Designers think that putting a man in a sari or a woman in a tuxedo is gender fluid. It’s such a dangerous and irresponsible way of viewing fluidity in identity. The moment you start treating androgyny, gender fluidity, and sexlessness as a trend, you’ve lost the plot. My clothes are neither intimidating, nor are they uninviting. The shapes and

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