The Antihero’s New Clothes

Fashion and queer bonding in Will & Grace

August 15, 2016

By Alex Esculapio

Set in a white, upper middle-class environment in New York City, the series follows the life of best friends Will Truman and Grace Adler, a gay lawyer and a straight, Jewish interior designer, and their friends Jack McFarland and Karen Walker, a flamboyant failed actor and a socialite with a penchant for drinks and pills who works as Grace’s assistant...

Keywords: Barneys, Clothing on camera, Masculine ideals, Paris is Burning, Suburban dad look

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The Antihero’s New Clothes

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The Antihero’s New Clothes

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Why should clogs be despised? Much art has been expended on clogs. They have been made of lovely woods, and...