Source: https://purushu.com/2016/02/heres-why-marc-jacobs-ss16-campaign-is-the-most-inclusive-yet-in-fashions-diversity-frontier.html
The fashion campaign portrayed is by Marc Jacobs for his 2016 Summer/Spring Collection. The model portrayed is MILK a.k.a Dan Donigan, a famous finalist of Ru Paul’s Drag Race Season 6. In this campaign Milk is portrayed by marc jacobs, wearing an all-womens wear outfit. An androdynous gender is portrayed by the campaign though MILK being a transgender women who flawlessly cross-dresses by wearing an all-american womenswear look, and this is further reinforced by the femenine pose and the make up the model wears. Marc Jacobs campaign purposefully defies gender norms by portraying a transgender woman that was once a man, with short hair, in a complete femenine look and wearing makeup. As Susan Keisser stated “She (Marjorie Garber) sees cross-dressing as “a space of possibility” that structures and disrupts the idea of cultural categories. She argues that it is important to look at rather than through cross-dressers in popular culture and everyday life: to consider cross-dressing as an additional (third or higher) space of gender possibility; it is a provocative space, because it generates and articulates cultural anxiety.”(Keiser, 2017, Gendering Fashion, Fashion Gender: Beyond Binaries, Page 131-132) When reading this statement I referenced the image and came across the fact that by MILK cross-dressing he is opening the doors of androgynous gender, and since gender is really a social construct there can be so many intersectionalities in cross-dressing itself. It is true that cross-dressing also causes cutural anxiety in this image because it brings a new meaning to being a woman, a transgender, and to femeninity itself by defying the gender norms and portryaing a biological man as a woman.
