[PHOTOS] Redefined and Redesigned: Defying Gender Norms in Fashion Panel
On Thursday, June 23, 2016, the Brooklyn Historical Society presented Redefined and Redesigned: Defying Gender Norms in Fashion, a panel featuring pioneering designers, models, and bloggers that...
View ArticleDigital Casting: Call for dapperQ NYFW Models
dapperQ will be hosting our third annual New York Fashion Week show at Brooklyn Museum on September 8, 2016. The show, titled iD, will feature 8-10 designers whose work is systemically rooted in gender...
View Article[VIDEO] Androgynous Model Rain Dove Featured in Dove's New #MyBeautyMySay
Inspiring women to celebrate beauty on their own terms, Dove launched #MyBeautyMySay, a NEW FILM that profiles the unique stories of 9 real women, including androgynous Rain Dove, on how they overcame...
View Article10 Black Owned Queer Style Companies to Support!
To kick off dapperQ's 100 days of #blaQueer style, our team is showcasing 10 Black queer style companies you should know about and support. Know of any other Black owned queer style companies that are...
View ArticleBecause We're Magic: Healing and Resilience Through Daily Adornment
It’s December 2015, I’m looking in a mirror and my hands are shaking. I splash some water on my face and question my own existence. The words, “I don’t want to be here anymore”, echo in my head. If...
View ArticleThe Modern Power Suit
dapperQ is thrilled to announce that our Editor-in-Chief Anita Dolce Vita is also now serving as a Fashion Editor at Curve, the nation's best selling lesbian print magazine. For Anita's first piece,...
View ArticleHBO Awards a Dapper Suit to Three LGBTQ Youth
Suited, a new HBO documentary produced by Lena Dunham (Girls) and Jenni Konner, and directed by Jason Benjamin, tells the story of Bindle & Keep, a Brooklyn tailoring company that makes custom...
View ArticleJaden Smith Graces Nylon in Fierce Lace, Says He Uses Style to Create Change
#CareFreeBlackBoy Jaden Smith slays again, wearing a fierce lace shirt on the cover of Nylon. Jaden is the magazine's first solo male cover star. Recently, Jaden Smith modeled a skirt as one of the new...
View ArticlePortrait of An Heiress: LA Oil Socialite Nats Getty
I am absolutely stoked to be also lending my talents as a fashion editor to Curve, the nation's best selling lesbian print magazine! I recently got the opportunity to profile Getty oil heiress and...
View ArticleBrave GentleMan Launches Line of Unisex "Menswear" Inspired Vegan Shoes
The Brave GentleMan, a Brooklyn-based high fashion, eco-friendly, vegan, cruelty-free, and sustainable boutique, has recently released a line of unisex "menswear" inspired vegan shoes, along with some...
View ArticleTexas Queer Style Royalty Launches Inclusive Women's Festival
Produced by Wolfpack Productions, LLC, PLEZZURE ISLAND, the first and only queer women's resort takeover in Texas, is slated to take place at the Hilton Island Galveston Resort from September 29 -...
View ArticleAndrogynous Model Rain Dove Explores Gendered Olympic Clothing
For us, the Olympics have always represented the best and worst of human potential. From the extraordinary athleticism and Black Girl Magic of Simone Biles, to the ugly criticism of Black women's hair,...
View ArticledapperQ Returns to Brooklyn Museum for 3rd Annual New York Fashion Week Queer...
dapperQ is proud to announce that we will executive produce iD, the largest New York Fashion Week (NYFW) runway event showcasing queer style to be held at world renowned Brooklyn Museum on the opening...
View ArticleInterview with Gender Free World: Clothing Without Labels
Gender Free World (GFW) Clothing was founded in 2015 (part of Gender Free World Ltd) by a consortium of like-minded individuals who were seeking alternatives to ill-fitting androgynous and masculine...
View ArticleMeet the First Queer Female Media Creatives to Curate at the Liberty Fairs...
Queer menswear bloggers Sara Geffrard, founding editor of A Dapper Chick, and Danielle Cooper, founding editor of She's A Gent, became the first female creatives to curate original content for the...
View ArticleOakland to Host Second Annual Queer Fashion Week
On the heels of their acclaimed inaugural year, producers Miz Chris of fiveTEN Oakland Events and Fallon Davis of This Is Butch, Inc., are teaming up again to host the second annual Queer Fashion Week...
View ArticlePyer Moss "Bernie vs. Bernie" Collection Critiques Capitalism, Celebrates...
Pyer Moss founder and designer, Kerby Jean-Raymond, leveraged his Spring Summer 2017 New York Fashion Week show to unveil a collection exploring the juxtaposition of two competing ideas of capitalism,...
View ArticledapperQ Launches Partner Project "Hi Femme!"
When I started my service with dapperQ, I did so for many reasons. Like Sharifa Murdock, the fashion powerhouse Black woman who founded Liberty Fairs, a progressive menswear tradeshow that is changing...
View ArticleStyle Dossier: Sam Obeid
Welcome back to Style Dossier, Gabrielle Royal’s column that profiles stylish queers across the country. This edition, Gabrielle is featuring Sam Obeid, an activist by life, poet by heart. Work-wise,...
View ArticleAward 1
This is a test to test the awards which will appear on the press page. This is a short description of the award. The post Award 1 appeared first on dapperQ.
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