The Future Of Fashion Is Genderless

The future of fashion is neither male nor female, it is genderless.

- Anshika Seth

The line between menswear and womenswear gradually blurred when the fashion houses expanded their horizon on ramps. “Androgynous fashion is beyond sexism and gender identity. It is an expression of power in a fearless comfort zone,” explains Akshat Bansal, creative director, Bloni Atelier. Moreover, the quirky and unconventional styles portrayed by Ranveer Singh challenged the traditional norms, shattered the walls of gender defining roles and made us think, is there more to men’s fashion?

BLAST FROM THE PAST

“The world is changing. More and more people are identifying themselves as gender fluid or gender non-conforming to stereotypes that were created thousands of years ago”, says Anvita Sharma, the founder of Two Point Two label. Though, in India, the battle of pushing the envelope of genderless fashion moves with the pace of a fish in a huge pond, its seeds were sown long back and has dwelled throughout the Indian history. Be it the Achkans adorned by the royals or the Angrakha, all had genderless silhouettes.

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