Queer and Trans Fashion Brands

Kelly Reddy-Best

ISBN 10: 1350465879 / ISBN 13: 9781350465879

Published by Bloomsbury Academic Sep 2025, 2025

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Neuware -Discover the stories of 25 North American fashion entrepreneurs who have created queer- and trans-focused fashion brands in the 21st century.Illuminating their journeys of self-expression, identity formation, and resistance within the fashion industry, Queer and Trans Fashion Brands highlights the resilience, creativity, and cultural contributions of the interviewees, showing how they serve as agents of change, actively challenging heteronormative norms. Kelly L. Reddy-Best draws upon an intersectional feminist framework, to offer a nuanced examination of the production, distribution, regulation, and consumption of the products and media associated with these brands and their collective impact on the fashion industry.Featured brands:All is Fair in Love and Wear; Audio Helkuik; Beefcake Swimwear; Bluestocking Boutique; Dapper Boi; FLAVNT Streetwear; FtM Essentials; gc2b; Greyscale Goods; Kipper Clothiers; Kirrin Finch; Let's Be Brief; NiK Kacy Footwear; Outplay Swimwear; Play Out Apparel; Queer Supply; Rebirth Garments; Show and Tell Concept Shop; Strapping Sacramento; Stuzo; THÚY Custom Clothier; TomboyX; TransGuy Supply; WE ARE MORTALS 224 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Queer and Trans Fashion Brands
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic Sep 2025
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1350465879
• ISBN 13: 9781350465879
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 234W x 155H x 13D millimeters 234 millimeters width by 155 millimeters height by 13 millimeters depth
• Weight: 486 grams

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Synopsis

Discover the stories of 25 North American fashion entrepreneurs who have created queer- and trans-focused fashion brands in the 21st century.

Illuminating their journeys of self-expression, identity formation, and resistance within the fashion industry, Queer and Trans Fashion Brands highlights the resilience, creativity, and cultural contributions of the interviewees, showing how they serve as agents of change, actively challenging heteronormative norms. Kelly L. Reddy-Best draws upon an intersectional feminist framework, to offer a nuanced examination of the production, distribution, regulation, and consumption of the products and media associated with these brands and their collective impact on the fashion industry.

Featured brands:
All is Fair in Love and Wear; Audio Helkuik; Beefcake Swimwear; Bluestocking Boutique; Dapper Boi; FLAVNT Streetwear; FtM Essentials; gc2b; Greyscale Goods; Kipper Clothiers; Kirrin Finch; Let's Be Brief; NiK Kacy Footwear; Outplay Swimwear; Play Out Apparel; Queer Supply; Rebirth Garments; Show and Tell Concept Shop; Strapping Sacramento; Stuzo; THÚY Custom Clothier; TomboyX; TransGuy Supply; WE ARE MORTALS

About the Author

Kelly L. Reddy-Best is a Professor in Fashion Design and Merchandising and Chair of Family and Consumer Sciences at Illinois State University, USA. In her research she examines the interrelationships of dress, identity, consumption, regulation, and the fashion system through a social justice lens.