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| Ball Couture in the 1980s |
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| Billy Porter at the 2019 Oscars |
Fashion is something we see every day in our busy lives. A businesswoman on her way to work in a little black dress, or a stay at home mom feeling confident in her evening gown fashion can be expressed in an infinite amount of ways. Clothes are not just something you wear it can be a symbol of strength, confidence, and defiance.
Your clothing can be a statement of power you can show off your strength in a power suit or even an outfit of protest. When it comes to fashion you can be whoever you want, practicing freedom of expression with your clothes can be uplifting and can help with figuring out who you are. Gender roles have also been a thing in the past when it comes to fashion men are not afraid to tap into their feminine side by wearing feminine garments and makeup. This applies to a woman also because they can look and feel powerful and sickening in a buttoned-up suit. Billy Porter was the first male to ever wear a gown to the Oscars and he turned some heads because people were not use to seeing men in gowns at something as huge as the Oscars. He truly changed the way people see expression in the fashion world it was time to understand that not only a woman can wear gowns and man can do it too and look amazing while doing it. Fashion can be abstract but also very chic and modern and that is what defined the underground balls in Brooklyn. The LBTQ community would gather up and compete for trophies by following the categories of fashion which inspired ball couture a new way to express yourself by what you wear and to be okay with who you are and that was something that was hard to achieve in the 80s due to the hatred to gay people and people that were different. You should always feel confident in what you were no matter what people say you are you and no one should tell you otherwise!
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| Fashion as a form of protest |
"Clothes mean nothing until someone lives in them." -Marc Jacobs
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