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"B-Rude is my emotional rage, vicious optimism with a dash of
tongue in chic' in fashion form. I design clothes for those who like
their reputation to arrive in the room ahead of them. You don't
have to be an attention seeker, however, attention seeking has
become a bit of a crime, especially for gay men over the last
decade.
The price of assimilation is a loss of identity and I for one long for
some of that glorious 'rock n roll ambiguity. Add to this, the fact
that straight male vanity has finally caught up with the 'queer'
variety and there has been what can only be described as a
'hijacking of camp' by straight guys. Terms like 'meterosexuality'
are being thrown around in a feeble attempt to explain why
straight boys are spending longer in front of the mirror and why
the queer boys are dressing like they have come to fix your
plumbing.
'B-rude' is an attempt to throw yet another visual spanner in the
works and further blur those boundaries which pigeonhole us all
and prove nothing. Certainly we hope to attract the androgynous
into our colourful closet but I'm also keen to see the rude logo
popping out from a pair of worn Levi's. The devil really is in the
detail.
“She was trying to explain fashion. I stopped her and said “There is
no point to fashion”."
–Boy George
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