Nearly a year after the cover was published, Billy gave his own take on Harry’s design, which included dresses and skirts. I created the conversation [about non-binary fashion] Yet Vogue is still putting Harry Styles, a straight white man, in a dress on its cover for the first time,” Sunday times.
“Who are you going to try to use to represent this new conversation?”
In a new interview with telegraphBilly explained why he reacted the way he did to Harry’s cover – and he didn’t back down.
“[He’s] Billy said (trans from the inside). “That’s why it’s on the cover. Non-binary blah blah blah blah blah. No. It just doesn’t feel right to me.”
“You use my community – or your people use my community – to lift you up,” Billy said of Harry. “You didn’t have to sacrifice anything.”
During the interview, Bailey also mentioned an alleged conversation he had with Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour regarding how the publication could “do better” toward the LGBTQIA+ community.
“That bitch eventually said to me, ‘How can we do better?'” he recalls. “And I was so surprised that I didn’t say what I should have said.” But Billy now knows what it is He was He said if he was ready to answer the question.
“Use your power as Vogue to raise the voices of the leaders of this kind of fashion movement.”
You can read Bailey’s entire interview here.
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