To succeed, a designer needs an image that is not only strong but also flexible, and to proclaim too publicly that one is gay (or straight, for that matter), while politically correct, may be philosophically limiting-especially, as with Gucci's Tom Ford, when your design philosophy is based on the notion that fashion's sexual force field should be fluid. The standard explanation for this situation has to do with that elusive, transitory quality that defines fashion's nature: image. But with a few exceptions (Todd Oldham, Isaac Mizrahi), the ranks of top designers who are publicly out of the closet are surprisingly thin. To observe that gay men and lesbians dominate the fashion business may seem about as controversial as saying that Russians rule Moscow. MLA style: "Gucci's gay guru." The Free Library.
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