Creative director and founder of Rowena Social Club based in Los Feliz, California, James Ford describes himself as a "gender equal" fashion designer, telling The Queer Review, "I want people to have equal access to masculine silhouettes and feminine silhouettes, regardless of who they are". His belief in the power and fun of fashion stems... Continue Reading →
Exclusive Interview: Making the Cut season 3 finalist Yannik Zamboni on genderless fashion, Jeremey Scott & why he’d love to design for Little Nas X
With the launch of the season three finale of fashion design competition Making the Cut on Prime Video today, The Queer Review's editor James Kleinmann had an exclusive conversation with finalist Yannik Zamboni about his experience on the show. Yannick with Making the Cut hosts Heidi Klum and Tim Gunn during the season three finale.... Continue Reading →
Outfest LA 2022 Film Review: ALL MAN The International Male Story ★★★★
Following its world premiere at Tribeca last month, directors Bryan Darling and Jesse Finley Reed's delectable ALL MAN: The International Male Story plays the 40th Anniversary Outfest Los Angeles LGBTQ+ Film Festival on Saturday, July 16th. The feature documentary chronicles the history of the alluring men's fashion catalogue, International Male, with insights from the insiders... Continue Reading →
Sydney Film Festival 2022 Review: Fashion Babylon ★★★
Gianluca Matarrese’s Fashion Babylon is a documentary more interested in the lives on fashion’s fringes than the glamour on the runway. Following a trio of notable fashion obsessives, Matarrese’s cold lens highlights how wafer thin glamour is, and how hollow art can be… but just maybe, for a few, it is still redeemable. Musician/artist Casey... Continue Reading →
Exclusive Interview: Tony-nominee David Pittu on portraying fashion illustrator Joe Eula in Netflix’s Halston “there was a very personal connection to this world for me”
American fashion designer Halston helped define the 60s, 70s, and 80s, from creating Jacqueline Kennedy's iconic pillbox hat for JFK's inauguration, to dressing his Halstonettes—the actors, socialites, models, and muses who surrounded him—like Anjelica Huston, Babe Paley, and Lauren Bacall, to his nights out at Studio 54 with famous friends such as Warhol, Liza, and... Continue Reading →
First look at Netflix limited series Halston starring Ewan McGregor with Warhol-inspired Polaroids
Announcing the premiere date for the Ryan Murphy executive produced Halston limited series, about the celebrated fashion designer Roy Halston Frowick (today would have been his 89th birthday), as May 14th 2021, Netflix have just revealed a collection of Warhol-inspired character Polaroids to introduce the cast playing his Studio 54 entourage. Halston (Ewan McGregor) surrounded... Continue Reading →
Exclusive Interview: creative & fashion director Sam Ratelle “I’m excited for where the future of menswear is going”
Hailed by Vogue as “the most fabulous entrance in Met Gala history”, in May last year Billy Porter was carried on to the pink carpet by six shirtless Broadway hunks on a palanquin dressed as Cleopatra in a dazzling gold ensemble designed by The Blonds. Just three months earlier, Porter had shut down the red... Continue Reading →