Indya Moore designs a genderless collection for Tommy

 Madrid - In recent years, and very much to be thanked, there are already a large number of firms, designers and fashion chains that do not hesitate to join the celebrations that, with each June 1st, start on the occasion of Pride month LGBTQIA +. A commitment to the visibility and inclusion of people linked to this group, which nevertheless on many of these occasions had been limited to nothing more than a gesture, through initiatives or the launch of very limited capsule collections and limited to these specific dates of the calendar. A resolution that luckily, and aware of the true and urgent need to guarantee a social inclusion that remains unrelated to any other consideration of a sexual, physical or emotional nature, A good part of those same firms and designers are already trying to counteract, through projects in favor of inclusion that do not stop in front of any date or celebration. Firms such as in this case a Tommy Hilfiger that, within the framework of its initiative “People's Place Program” in favor of diversity, has just created together with the actress and non-binary activist Indya Moore a capsule collection without gender and corporally inclusive.

Under the name "Tommy x Indya", this new capsule collection is expected to become available on Tommy's online page, as well as in a number of selected physical stores in Europe, starting tomorrow, Thursday 13 July 2021. Moment in which we can enter to discover in detail the different nuances of this series of pieces and designs, of which Moore has participated as co-designer of the proposal. A new facet in which the actress, known worldwide for her portrayal of "Angel" in the drama series "Pose" by Ryan Murphy, debuts under the auspices of the American firm's design team at all times.

"There are too many people who have been blamed simply for being themselves," highlights the actress; to the point that it underlines the fully inclusive nature of a capsule, with which, he assures, its main intention has been at all times to guarantee that no one can feel “hurt or different”.

Promoting inclusion in all areas of fashion

In this new stage that she is now undertaking as a designer, as Moore herself acknowledges, the actress and model has made use of her own links and the relationship that she has maintained towards fashion throughout her life. As she herself confesses, a field that was shown to her as one of her main escape routes during her complicated and hard adolescence. Having undertaken this new facet from this mucus from a position in which his defense of inclusion is no longer that it is shown as an ethical obligation, as it should be in many other cases, but as a natural attitude to understand the field of design.

"Fashion was not something that I had to intentionally lean towards," the actress pointed out in conversations with the American medium Wed. Some statements in which he explained how, during his adolescence, he cut "small pieces of shirts that he sewed in the parts that he broke off my jeans." "I made clothes for myself, to express who I was and how I felt as a young queer kid." A period of his life in which “fashion was one of my escape routes. An opportunity to somehow infuse me with color. Of leaving my parents behind ”, for whom I would end up entering a foster system due to their transphobic behavior, wearing“ rainbow clothes ”. “I was able to create things with what I had at home that allowed me to be more aligned with myself”, a piece that I created “naturally”. So that, "When Tommy approached me with this idea, I felt that same child came out of me again," that same "young queer who wanted nothing more than to express himself through what he was creating." "What I have expressed with everything I have done for Tommy, part of that past, but also of the moment in which I am now, and how I think and what I believe."

"Style knows no borders of any kind, and this is always what has driven my dream of creating a fashion for everyone," added designer Tommy Hilfiger. "Our People's Place program is a big step in this direction, as we continue to work hard to promote greater representation and greater inclusion in all areas of the fashion industry." "This collection embodies everything we stand for," says the American, "from the design process to the campaign," filmed in the Bronx, where Moore comes from, and in which activists Chella Man have participated in addition to the actress. , Gia Love, Cory Walker and Pidgeon Pagonis, the whole “Tommy x Indya capsule comes to make people feel seen, accepted and included”.

An inclusive collection of genderless garments

Entering into somewhat more prosaic issues, in relation to the designs of this capsule collection, it is made up of pieces among which we will find different clothing designs, such as polo shirts, blazers or shirts; to pieces of intimate fashion, footwear, jewelry or even different eyewaer models. Designs that in any case have been made based on decided inclusion criteria, both body and gender. An aspect that we will see materialize, in the case of clothing pieces, through garments with “genderless” lines in a wide range of sizes, reinforced with larger large sizes, thus guaranteeing that they can be used by anyone, notwithstanding of your body type or gender identity.

"Anyone can use them," emphasizes Moor. “I feel that sensitivity towards unisex, gender neutral and gender queer, and I'm trying not to frame the clothes using any labels at all. It's just clothes, "says the model and actress. "I want to destigmatize fashion", "I don't want it to show any kind of meaning or pre-established meaning", but "I just want it to be used by as many types of bodies and people as possible". Something that "I hope I have achieved, at least to a greater degree than what has been done so far", and with the confidence that "I know that someone else can come and do it even better, and I hope it will be soon."

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