Making history Valentina Sampaio is the 23-year-old model creating waves with her ground-breaking feature in the 2020 Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue. The Brazilian trailblazer has become the first transgender woman to appear in the magazine since its first edition in 1964. Sampaio, who has become the latest swimsuit “rookie” revealed for 2020, marks a turning point for the transgender community and Sports Illustrated. Whilst her Vogue Paris cover in 2017 was her first pers

The fashion industry is changing its ways to create a normal and acceptable perspective when it comes to transgender models. There are many questions to whether it is a marketing strategy due to the ever-changing and progressive views of generation-Z. However, that topic is for another article. Perhaps you’re asking why this is so important? Well, I will give you a little look into the history and appalling treatment of transgender models before the industry woke up. April A

Fashion is undeniably gendered. On a rather short spectrum, women are described as beautiful, maybe pretty. The men, they are handsome and dapper. So, what happens to the others stranded somewhere in the middle? Where does butch fashion enter the conversation? Butch or femme? Oh, or kiki? During the period of the 1940s up to the 1960s, lesbian identities were perceived as occupying predominantly two sexual and emotional spaces. Those spaces were either butch or femme, (anyone