{"id":14530,"date":"2021-10-18T10:36:39","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T17:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=14530"},"modified":"2023-01-18T04:33:46","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T12:33:46","slug":"billy-porter-criticizes-vogue-for-casting-harry-styles-as-breaking-stereotypes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/billy-porter-criticizes-vogue-for-casting-harry-styles-as-breaking-stereotypes\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy Porter criticizes Vogue for casting Harry Styles as breaking stereotypes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Harry Styles<\/strong> came out on the cover of <strong>Vogue<\/strong> representing non-binary fashion (traditionally male and female pieces mix, regardless of gender) in November of last year, but it&#8217;s still something to talk about! Who addressed the topic in an interview was the award-winning actor and singer <strong>Billy Porter<\/strong>, who recently featured in the new version of the movie \u201c<strong>Cinderella<\/strong>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He missed having his own credits, as he believes he was the first to raise this flag.<br \/>C<\/p>\n<p> On the other hand, Harry Styles became the first man to wear a dress on the cover of Vogue, the <strong>fashion<\/strong> bible. For Porter, this was a wrong choice.<br \/>\n<br \/> That&#8217;s what he told the <strong>Sunday Times Style<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote><p>\u201c<em><strong>I personally changed the whole game. And that&#8217;s not ego, it&#8217;s just a fact.<\/p>\n<p> I was the first to do this and now everyone is doing it<\/strong><\/em>\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em><strong>I feel the fashion industry accepted me because they had to. I&#8217;m not necessarily convinced and here&#8217;s why.<\/p>\n<p> I created the conversation (about non-binary fashion) and yet Vogue still put Harry Styles, a straight white male, in a dress on his cover for the first time<\/strong><\/em>\u201d the 52-year-old actor justified.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/heartencon\/status\/1327321571254480896\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cWhen you take away \u2018There\u2019s clothes for men and there\u2019s clothes for women,\u2019 once you remove any barriers, obviously you open up the arena in which you can play\u201d- Harry Styles 2020, the first male solo act to cover Vogue America <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ARIAsHarryStyles?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#ARIAsHarryStyles<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Y8nrm6AJ26\">pic.twitter.com\/Y8nrm6AJ26<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; sho (@heartencon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/heartencon\/status\/1327321571254480896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 13, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Billy Porter was keen to point out that he has nothing personal with Harry Styles, but he questions the <strong>magazine<\/strong>&#8216;s decision.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote><p>\u201c<em><strong>I&#8217;m not badmouthing Harry Styles, but is he the one you&#8217;re going to try to use to represent this new conversation? He doesn&#8217;t care, he&#8217;s just doing it because it&#8217;s the right thing to do<\/strong><\/em>\u201d he added.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p>The actor and singer believes there is a <strong>cause<\/strong> he is very involved in, different from the singer of \u201c<strong>Watermelon Sugar<\/strong>\u201d:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote><p>\u201c<em><strong>This is politics for me. This is my life. I&#8217;ve had to fight my whole life to get to the place where I could wear an Oscar dress and not get killed.<\/p>\n<p> All he needs to do is be white and straight<\/strong><\/em>\u201d, he blurted out.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harry Styles came out on the cover of Vogue representing non-binary fashion (traditionally male and female pieces mix, regardless of gender) in November of last year, but it&#8217;s still something to talk about! 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