Why do women wear menswear?
i-D asks fashion designer Sofia Prantera: Were you a tomboy yourself?
“I’m not sure about the term, because now I’ve got a boy and a girl and you realize that by saying “tomboy” you’re dividing the gender. Your daughter might think that by wearing jeans she behaving like a boy and I think it made me think that I prefer the gender-fluid thing, like younger generations who really pick and choose things that they like. It’s merging in a way.
I met this guy who defined himself as gender-fluid the other day and he was amazing: he was 22 and dressed like a younger me would dress but he had nail polish and a tiny bit of make-up. He was dressed like a girl who would dress like a boy.
I just thought, ‘how much easier the world would be if there wasn’t such a thing like, this is male, this is female?’ I never really wanted to dress like a boy but was attracted by cool guys and I wanted to look like that. I didn’t want to look like the girl with the lipstick and the bra. “
