A new exhibition celebrates the history Queer Fashion

authentic chanel outlet Later Fashion Style legends Christian Dior, Bill Blass , Halston and spent her entire life in the closet. The full list of great gay designer is too long to print , but includes Alexander McQueen, Jean Paul Gaultier, Yves Saint Laurent, Cristobal Balenciaga and Balmain . Throughout history , fashion has served as a means to express the otherwise silent strange voice. Finally, it can be examined in the fashion world as a whole in a post -Prop -8 world history previously hidden exceptional contributions of LGBTQ community . The revolutionary new exhibition at the Museum of FIT , A Queer History of Fashion : in the closet of the bridge opens today . Cover 300 and a hundred training , men's fashion fop " macaroni " in the 18th Century Gaultier cone bras and skirts for men, the show is the first to examine the history of fashion through a strange lens. Commissioners Fred Dennis and Valerie Steele , Director and Chief Curator of the Museum at FIT , spent two years of intensive research to develop the exhibition. "For many years , gay and lesbian history were hidden ," Dennis said . " In recognition of the historical influence of gay designers, and emphasized the important role that fashion and style have played the LGBTQ community, we see how the central gay culture was the creation of modern fashion . " authentic chanel bags The exhibition explores a wide range of trends, paradigm lesbian " butch -femme " to culture , shrill dandyism of the time Oscar Wilde draw . The AIDS crisis has a tragic toll on the world of fashion Gay had - died designers such as Perry Ellis and Bill Robinson of the virus, and is dedicated to the middle of the exhibition to provide them with their clothes on screen to honor with a number of classic t -shirts activists. Also on display are three piece suits 1800 "Men Hatter ," a 1980 look " clone " classic nylon flight jacket and aviator and a cocktail dress Dior presents its "new look " from the year 1950. Homophobia widespread leads to incidents such as Coco Chanel pipes at New Look dressed girls . "Look at the fools of queens live their fantasies dressed . " Joel Sanders , architect and theorist strange that the exhibition designed, constructed a white gate to mannequins in fashion with purple platform operating below to display dressed to see subcultural styles as counterpoint the gay . The exhibition ends with a section on the way the organization gay weddings, Chanel 1112 the fact that the finish line is in sight in the fight for marriage equality to celebrate .