Ace Rivington Challenges Gender Binary with Campaign Featuring Rain Dove and...
Ace Rivington, a retail brand known for designing high-quality "menswear" basics, recently challenged the gender binary by casting androgynous models Rain Dove and Cory Wade for their latest campaign....
View ArticleInterview: Creator of 'Eden's Garden'
Set to launch in September 2015, Eden's Garden will be the first scripted web series about trans men of color. Writer and producer Seven King created the series to address the lack of trans, racial,...
View ArticleCorporateQ: Laura Kanaplue
Editor's note: CorporateQ is a series that focuses on how masculine presenting gender queers are bringing their dapper selves to the workplace. In this interview with dapperQ contributor Sarah...
View ArticleMisappropriation of Class: The Sharpe Edge (Part I)
In dapperQ's first edition of a two-part series of fashion editorials produced by and featuring Sharpe Suiting, we showcase the incredible, unique queer style scene that is thriving in California....
View ArticleWomen Take Center Stage at New York City's Inaugural Men's Fashion Week
The entire fashion world watched as New York City launched its first ever Men's Fashion Week (MFW), a standalone showcase for American men’s style. The biannual event ran from July 13-16, 2015 and...
View ArticleTravelQ: A Dapper Guide to Airport Style
As a frequent flyer and veteran of the trans-Atlantic red-eye, it is bizarre to think that people used to dress up to fly. Classic images of businessmen in suits flying economy do not…I repeat… DO NOT...
View ArticleDapper Everyday Carry: Commute Essentials
For me, a successful daily commute really boils down to five things: a good bag, earbuds, a watch, a notebook and my favorite dapper facial care product, blotting paper. Especially for those of us who...
View ArticleED by Ellen DeGeneres Is Open for Business!
Almost a year ago, we reported that Ellen DeGeneres was launching a new lifestyle brand. Named ED, the brand has finally launched and offers some apparel, although at the moment limited and...
View ArticleSummer Slip-On Sneakers Get a Makeover
My partner does not fall neatly into the gender binary. She despises both suits and dresses, but still loves to look fashion-forward, which doesn't leave her with many options. (Though, newer,...
View ArticleRed Hot Wet Summer with Menswear Model Marcia Alvarado
Menswear model Marcia Alvarado has been having a whirlwind six months, with bookings at Queer Fashion Week, Rainbow Fashion Week, What Is Butch, Montreal Fashion and Design Festival, Brooklyn Museum...
View ArticleWhat Is Athleisure?
Street Goth. Normcore. And, now Athlesiure. We're super excited to see an explosion in the number of androgynous and gender-neutral genres, especially because masculine attire is not simply defined as...
View ArticleAndro & the Modern Pink Lady: The Sharpe Edge (Part II)
In part two of dapperQ's latest style editorials produced by and featuring Sharpe Suiting, the traditional masculine ownership of motorcycles is spun out and taken over by these sexy and powerful Queer...
View ArticleAsk dapperQ: Androgynous Summer Office Attire
Ask dapperQ is back with a reader questions about how to dress dapper in the heat. We've received quite a few questions, ranging from what to wear to work to what to wear to weddings that won't fry you...
View ArticleHe Said/We Said: Toronto Edition
dapperQ is proud to present our very first ever Canadian edition of He Said/We Said (HS/WS) on Autostraddle, featuring the masculine gender queer style of some amazing queers in Toronto! For a quick...
View ArticleDaughter Inspires Mom to Launch Suit Company for Young Girls
Michele Yulo’s 10-year-old daughter, Gabriela, has a similar fashion aesthetic to the character Alison in the Tony Award winning musical Fun Home. Like Alison, Gabriela prefers traditionally...
View ArticleBreaking Bread: Table talk with LesBInTheKitchen
Author's note: I've been wanting to feature dapperQ's from across the globe that look sharp and throw down in the kitchen! I'm extremely interested in food culture and fashion, how both are concerned...
View ArticleTig Notaro's "Boyish Girl Interrupted" Airs on HBO
Got plans this weekend? Great, neither do we! But, instead of endlessly scrolling through Netflix and wondering how you'll bring yourself to watch yet another movie that should have never been made,...
View ArticleStyle Dossier: Sue Westgate
Welcome back to Style Dossier, Gabrielle Royal’s column that profiles stylish queers across the country. This edition, Gabrielle is featuring Sue Westgate, a stylish dapperQ who does admirable work...
View ArticleInterview: Queer Cuts with Australia-Based Barber Rhia Moulds
Welcome back to dapperQ's ongoing queer barber and hairstylist interview series: Queer Cuts. This week we're celebrating Rhia Moulds, an Australia-based hairstylist and barber who can currently be...
View ArticleGive Queer Style Much Needed Visibility at SXSW!
South by Southwest (SXSW) is an annual internationally acclaimed series of film, interactive technology, and music conferences and festivals that occurs each spring in Austin, Texas. Since SXSW's...
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