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Homme Girls #12

This hip New York magazine is created around the concept of women dressing as men, the ‘HommeGirl'. As they put it, ‘There is a boy in every girl, a homme in every woman.

Dressing like a man doesn’t disguise a woman’s femininity – it ignites it.’ Taking Katherine Hepburn as patron, the Homme Girl look is traceable to the trouser suits of Yves Saint Laurent in the 1970s and the utilitatarian jacket and trouser combos of Rei Kawakubo (Comme des Garçons) in the 1980s but the publisher acknowledges that the inspiration arcs all the way back to, well, Joan of Arc and her suit of armour. 

Issue#12 pays homage to Patrick Kelley, the great American, Paris-based fashion designer who died in 1990. As writer Marjon Carlos reports, Kelly riffed on Americana and Parisian kitsch, embellishing his looks with teddybears, ribbons, bows, Southwestern ephemera, and Mona Lisa signifiers.