Wear what makes you happy! Vanity Fair’s Nicole Chapoteau on gender fluid dressing

Fashion used to be separated into womenswear and menswear. Today,
it is much more gender fluid. “It's really about a movement of
pleasing yourself and being self aware and not you know,
hindering who your true self is,” says Vanity Fair Fashion
Director Nicole Chapoteau, “And I think clothing
is like one of the first ways you can express that.”  


Chapoteau joins host Pari Ehsan for a conversation about her
approach to the editorial pages of the magazine, and about
dressing and expressing identity – in daily life and on a
celebrity photoshoot.


“It is all about personality with a touch of glam and glitz,”
explains Chapoteau, adding that people often believe the actor or
musician they see performing is that character in real life. At
Vanity Fair, the manual for Hollywood and fashion, “you learn
about who they are themselves and not the roles they portray.”


Field correspondent Jason E.C. Wright picks up
the theme of gender fluidity in fashion on a tour of Two Rodeo
Drive with Rodeo Drive Committee President Kathy Gohari. They
window-shop at Versace, Shinobi, Porsche Design and Westime.


At Shinobi, for example, says Wright, “their whole concept was,
‘what would James Bond wear on his weekend off’? And what would
any of the Bond girls wear from his closet? So the footwear that
they source and manufacture in Japan, there's a size available
for them as well as a blouson or two to borrow from the boys.”


Whether the vitrine is displaying watches, jewelry, pants suits
or bags, fashion has broken away from boundaries, and is
available, say Gohari and Wright, to “she or he or they.”


Season Three of Rodeo Drive – The Podcast is presented by the
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Four Seasons Hotel, the Beverly Hills Conference & Visitors
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Season Three Credits:


Executive Producer: Lyn Winter


Host: Pari Ehsan


Field Correspondent: Jason E.C. Wright


Scriptwriter and Editorial Advisor: Frances Anderton


Editor and Videographer: Hans Fjellestad


Theme music by Brian Banks


Production Assistant: Grace Fuh


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