This was a few years after starting a menswear line – when he received a little pushback for men's skirts, as covered by Vogue:
“There always will be things I like that I know will be way too much for people: I think I’ve made some very pretty sarongs,” he says. “I did a runway show at the national museum of Puerto Rico, three or four years ago. After, I went to the little bar at the museum to grab a drink and go out on the terrace and have a cigarette. A guy marches in and just announces, ‘We are Puerto Rican! We are way too macho. We will never wear skirts!’ And I said, ‘Yeah, okay, great.’ What do you want me to say? It’s not going to bother me one way or the other.”
This came up in our weekly drop-in, with responses from global warming to language shifts. What do you think it will take? Serious and "frivolous" suggestions welcome 📝
This came up in our weekly drop-in, with responses from global warming to language shifts. What do you think it will take? Serious and "frivolous" suggestions welcome 📝
This reason is inspired by one of our spotlights, Andy, when talking about skirts: I like the fact that wearing one brings your whole body more into contact with Air...
This reason is inspired by one of our spotlights, Andy, when talking about skirts: I like the fact that wearing one brings your whole body more into contact with Air...
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