Cosmopolitan India

Fashion Goes Gender Fluid

Joan Dominic Rai

Fashion Influencer

“I am someone who has never liked ‘labels’: I wear anything I feel right wearing. I don’t care what people think, or if it ‘fits’. And now that ‘gender-fluidity’ is being talked about so much, it is great to see everyone accepting the blurring of boundaries. Men wearing a skirt, sari, or even a pearl necklace is now considered ‘stylish’. Personally, I like to wear elements that are not typically ‘male’. But it’s not to make a statement, it’s just what my style sensibility is. Even for this shoot for Cosmo, I’ve put together things that I saw in my wardrobe and liked, there was no thought-process to it, really. Also, at

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