In celebration of -fluid fashion and inclusion of all kinds, queer-style digital magazine dapperQ threw a runway party on September 6 marking start of New York Fashion Week that filled  Beaux-Arts Court of Brooklyn Museum with invited guests and nearly 2,000 members of public. It was sixth annual Queer Runway Show at museum for dapperQ, which uses rallying cry of “uned fashion". Marking its 10th year in business, site enlisted 10 brands on Thursday night. show featured an array of models of all colors, s, and sizes, large and small, on binary and off.

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Runway Highlights Queer Fashion

One model used a wheelchair and ar a single crutch. Professional trans models strutted and camped alongside YouTube and Instagram influencers. Zach Barack, openly trans actor who appeared in recent blockbuster “Spider-Man: Far from Home,” was among models.

joyous crowd ate it up, tossing beach balls into air, surrounded by European paintings on walls as upbeat music filled . Models showed off underwear sets from sponsor TomboyX and colorful kaftans, sharply tailored suits, shorts, outfits, and eveningwear from or brands, including Sharpe Suiting, Landeros New York, Halz, Stuzo, and Australia-based Shane Ave. Attendee Suhaly Bautista-Carolina called it an important evening for LGBTQ community and fashion industry as a whole.

“It celebrates queer community within fashion week,” Bautista-Carolina said. “Fashion week is such a celebratory moment in New York and to be included at this moment is just a very beautiful and important thing.”

models h a blast as well, earning cheers from jubilant crowd. B. Hawkes Snipes, who played a runway contestant on FX series “Pose,” warmed up room from runway at start of show wearing a flowing bright red gown. Hester Sunshine of revived “Project Runway” looked on from front row. “It’s really cool that this is happening,” said Sunshine, who came in second on show’s first season. “ LGBTQ community has been such a big part of fashion since beginning so it’s really nice to be recognized as its own presence.”

Barack said he has “never really done fashion stuff” but appreciated chance to help celebrate “queer bodies and all intersections that y lie in and all places y sit. I’m really excited to be a part of it.” Acceptance “can’t happen fast eugh,” Barack said. “All bodies deserve a place on runway.” 

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Inclusive clothing and its importance

Anita Dolce Vita, publisher of dapperQ and Executive Producer of show, said “queer fashion to me and in our community is fashion for everyone,” matter your sexual orientation, identity, or presentation. show “really breaks down and dismantles binaries that we often see on tritional New York Fashion Week runways,” she ded. With more trans femmes on covers of magazines and a growing popularity for “androgyny” in fashion, progress has been me in mainstream industry, dolce Vita said, but way queer fashion is interpreted remains filtered “very much through lens of hetero-rmativity,” with white, tall and skinny among defaults.

“Clothing should be for all people,” she said. “We don’t want just gay men who are designing for what ir vision of a perfect woman is. We want queer style.”

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