Silki Harris is a 23-year-old-lesbian event promoter and fashion designer who founded Ambiance Couture Bowties. What got you started with designing? My mother is a designer and infused a love of fashion within me since I was a child, which I now express through my own company. I have been sewing and...

Our friends over at Marimacho, a lovely masculine clothing line for the female bodied and transmasculine crowd, are looking for heartbreakers! To kick-start their new tumblr, the clothing line is welcoming users to submit photos of themselves rocking masculine clothing. You can check out some of the...

One of dapperQ’s key themes is that that style isn’t about blending in.  It’s about dressing to fight the good fight each day.  Folks may not like what we wear, but they can be damn sure we are making choices, self-determining and gliding through the world with pride. In this OccupyWallStreet...

Here at DapperQ, we get a lot of emails from people looking for sexy, fun underwear that they can wear with confidence and pride. So we caught up with Lindsay from letsbbrief to discuss her growing emporium of boxers and briefs. When did you launch the company? The Official launch was May 6, 2011. We...

FIT Menswear graduates Auston Bjorkman and Freddy Dico are the powerhouse designers behind the high fashion menswear label Sir New York, a sleek and modern line that The New Gay blog  hailed as “a great antidote to citified male attire that tends to drift toward banality.” Sir New York...

Last week, I attended a discussion on queer fashion hosted by Columbia University trans student group GendeRevolution. Also in attendance were Crystal González and Ivette Alé, the creative visionaries behind the newly launched masculine-of-center clothing line, Marimacho. I was honored to have a sneak...

I don’t know how many straight American men have the guts to rock looks featured in Thom Browne’s 2011 Menswear Line which debuted at the Paris Fashion Week. But I know a hell of a lot of dapperQ’s who could!   ( Take a look at this slideshow from NY Magazine which demos what other...