Alok V Menon

The breakout Central Saint Martins graduate and performance artist and designer discuss ways the industry can commit to a de-gendered future.

In the fourth session of BoF’s annual gathering, Harris Reed, Simon Whitehouse, Rafat Ali and others discussed the future of travel, the future of work and the future of gender-free fashion.

At VOICES 2019, performance artist and designer Alok Vaid-Menon lifted the lid on fashion’s ‘regressive’ gender stereotypes and urged the industry to ‘de-gender’ and redefine the meaning of beauty.

New and rapidly evolving markets offer exciting opportunities for the fashion industry, but the sector also faces an internal reckoning as it struggles to measure up to growing demands for a more inclusive future.

Performance artist and designer Alok Menon argues that the fashion and beauty industries need to ‘de-gender’ fashion to better celebrate trans and nonbinary people.