Press
dapperQ has been featured in reputable news outlets, elite fashion magazines, and world renowned conferences and museums, including The New York Times, Vanity Fair, The Washington Post, HBO, NBC, Yahoo News, the Huffington Post, Vice, Teen Vogue, Refiery29, WWD, Harper’s Bazaar, South by South West, Brooklyn Museum, The California Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, The International Center of Photography, BuzzFeed and more…
Press archives
2023
NBC News: How drag bans have made clothing a political statement, according to a queer style expert
Go Magazine: Anita Dolce Vita on dapperQ & the Joyful, Radical Politics of Queer Style
PopMatters: Talking About a Queer Fashion Revolution: LGBTQ+ dapperQ
Autostraddle: An Excerpt from dapperQ Style: Ungendering Fashion
Ms. Magazine: May 2023 Reads for the Rest of Us
2022
Vogue France: Je suis mannequin homme plus size et je vous explique pourquoi l’industrie doit changer
NBC Out: The ‘largest queer fashion’ show returns to kick off New York Fashion Week
Out: Inside DapperQ’s Groundbreakingly Queer NY Fashion Week Show
2021
Refinery29: How “Genderless” Collections Might Be Missing The Point
2020
Refinery29: 8 Queer Brands That Make Suits For Women
2019
The New York Times: Looking Beyond the Fashion Binary
Forbes: Queer Style Phenom Anita Dolce Vita On ‘Ungendering Fashion’ and Running NYFW’s Biggest Queer Show
Paper Magazine: DapperQ’s Inclusive Show Was a Queer Fashion Hype Fest
The Daily Beast: I Love Pretty and DapperQ: New York Fashion Week Kicks Off With Visa Drama and an LGBTQ Party
Nylon: What We Don’t Talk about When We Talk About Women’s Media
2018
September
Teen Vogue: The DapperQ New York Fashion Week 2018 Show Is Breaking Barriers
Paper Mag: DapperQ Presented Its Most Inclusive NYFW Show To-Date
Man Repeller: My First Fashion Week Has Been Imperfect and Strangely Life-Affirming
Into: dapperQ Is Showcasing a Brave New World in Fashion
Them: DapperQ Shut Down Fashion Week With Their Incredibly Queer Show
Shondaland: Suiting Up the Queer Community
Go Mag: DapperQ NYFW: Dress Code
Into: Find Us Front Row At The Queerest Show At New York Fashion Week
Huffington Post: NYFW’s ‘Dress Code’ Brings Queer Fashion Designers Together To Defy Stereotypes
June
Elle Brazil: Celebrada por usar roupas masculinas, Casey Legler tem muito mais a dizer
May
NBC News: “Leana Waith Makes Powerful Statement at Met Gala with Rainbow Cape”
March
Curve: “Girls Will Be Boys – Krammer & Stroudt Open NYMFW With All Women Models”
Austin Chronicle: “Your Queer Guide to SXSW”
February
Bustle: “DapperQ Isn’t Just A Queer Fashion Magazine – It’s A Form of Resistance”
2017
December
Autostraddle: “A Day in the Life of Anita Dolce Vita of dapperQ”
October
Glamour: “For Some Wedding Parties, Bridesmen and Groomswomen Are Becoming the New Norm”
September
Vanity Fair: Queer Fashion Makes Its Mark on Fashion Week at the Brooklyn Museum
Teen Vogue: “How Transgender Rights Were Represented on the Runway By Juliet Evancho and Designer Clio Sage”
Teen Vogue: “Pop Stars Didn’t Invent Gender Fluidity”
NBC News: New York Fashion Week’s ‘Largest LGBTQ Runway Show’ Gets Political
NYLON: “Go Behind The Scenes Of The Largest New York Fashion Week Runway Event Celebrating Queer Style”
Huffington Post Queer Voices Live Stream of dapperQ’s 4th Annual New York Fashion Week LGBTQ fashion show at Brooklyn Museum
The Cut: “Transgender Model Juliet Evancho Says Trump Just Makes Her Want to Fight Harder”
Page Six: “Jackie Evancho and her sister are moving to New York”
Yahoo News: “Has Fashion Week become more inclusive? Designers and celebrities speak out: ‘We want more'”
Bustle: “DapperQ’s LGBTQ Fashion Week Showcase Celebrated Queer Fashion & Resistance”
Time Out New York: “dapperQ Presents R/Evolution”
Huffington Post: “The Largest Showcase Of Queer Fashion Designers At NYFW Will Be A ‘R/Evolution’”
Top Knot coverage (BuzzFeed’s site focusing on beauty videos for people who geek out over hair, makeup, nails, and more.)
Qwear: “DapperQ’s R/Evolution was NYFW’s largest LGBTQIA+ Runway Show, Ever”
Autostraddle: PHOTOESSAY: “Building a R/Evolution With DapperQ at New York Fashion Week”
GO magazine: “Lesbian Social Diary: The Dapper Q Fashion Show Was Everything Fashion Is Supposed To Be”
Tagg magazine: “Photos: DapperQ R/Evolution Runway Show”
The Curvy Fashionista: “Are We Finally Seeing Plus Size Representation at New York Fashion Week? Maybe…”
June
PR Newswire: “LGBT-Inclusive Advertising Is Driving Business Yet Consumers Demand Authenticity According to Ogilvy Survey”
Taipei Times: “紐約酷兒 遍地開花 (New York Queer Blossom Everywhere)”
March
Huffington Post: “We Need To Address Femmephobia In The Queer Community” 
Austin Chronicle: “Gay Place: The lowdown on LGBTQxyz free and unofficial SXSW events”
January
Huffington Post: “How to Make Space For A Fierce Femme Future”
2016
September
Teen Vogue: “An Interview with Sir New York Designer Auston Björkman at the DapperQ NYFW Show”
Refinery29: “This Genderqueer Fashion Show Was an Inclusive, Joyous Night at the Museum”
Elite Daily: “I Went To A Queer Fashion Show And It Proved Gender Is Becoming Irrelevant”
BuzzFeed: Snapchat coverage of dapperQ iD New York Fashion Week Show at Brooklyn Museum
China Times: 紐約時裝周 台裔新秀鍾知倫嶄露頭角
OUT magazine: “4 of Our Favorite Looks from dapperQ’s Queer Fashion Event”
AfterEllen: “dapperQ’s iD Opens New York Fashion Week with Gender Fluid Models and Designers”
GO mag: “dapperQ is Queering NYFW”
TomboyX: “dapperQ iD at New York Fashion Week”
Qwear: “dapperQ Presents iD: A Pot of Gold at the End of the Rainbow”
Boi Society: “Designers Slay New York Fashion Week Runway”
Surface Magazine: “dapperQ Brings Queer Design to New York Fashion Week”
Terra (Brazil) “Modelos sem aparência convencional, a última ‘moda’ em Nova York”
La Razon (Bolivia): “Modelos sin la apariencia perfecta, la última ‘moda’ en Nueva York”
Diari de Girona (Spain): “Models de conscienciació”
La Presna (Honduras): “Para compartir esta nota utiliza los íconos que aparecen en el sitio”
Huffington Post: Live stream of dapperQ “iD” fashion show (full show) at Brooklyn Museum
Huffington Post: Live stream of dapperQ “iD” behind the scenes fashion show at Brooklyn Museum
Huffington Post: “These Designers Are Proving Queer Fashion Is Way More Than Just A Trend”
BRIC Live TV: “Queer Fashion, Race, Gender Intersectionality”
July
Harper’s Bazaar (Spain): “Diversidad sexual en la moda: las mujeres que han abierto camino”
Panama American: “Diversidad sexual en la moda”
June
HBO: Suited documentary (produced by Lena Dunham)
Thump (Vice): “Why 2016 Is the Year of Queer Women in Nightlife”
Observer: “Pride Weekend Edition: 9 Things to Do in New York’s Art World”
Brooklyn Reader: “Exclusive Interview with Fashion Editor Anita Dolce Vita: Redefining Gender Norms”
Metro: “Best of NYC Pride 2016”
April
Unicorn Booty: “How Queer Fashion Can Change the World. No, Really…”
March
Mashable: “Why Zara Calling Sweats ‘Genderless’ Is Problematic”
San Diego LGBT Weekly (online + print cover story): “Queer Style: dapperQ’s Anita Dolce Vita on the new frontier of fashion” 
Huffington Post: “Don’t Miss SxSW’s First (And Only) Queer Style Panel”
The Advocate: “7 Things That Are Everything This Week”
The Austin Chronicle: “SXstyle: Queer Fashion: The Visual Activism of Dressing How You Feel”
The Austin Chronicle: “Ain’t No Party Like a SX Party Cuz This SX Party Don’t Stop”
The Austin Chronicle: “The Gay Place Guide to a Kweer SX”
NewNowNext: “First Ever Queer Style Panel Planned for SxSW”
Unicorn Booty: “5 Contemporary Queers Who are Revolutionizing Fashion”
Autostraddle: “Post-SXSW Communiqué on ‘Queer Style: Visual Activism and Fashion’s Frontier‘”
2015
December
Huffington Post: “15 Blogs That Made Us Think Differently About the Queer Community in 2015”
Bustle: “9 Best Moments for Queer Visibility in Fashion in 2015″
Curve: “Have a Happy: Get the Look from dapperQ and Sharpe Suiting” (print)
Curve: “On the VERGE: Queer Style Struts Its Stuff at New York Fashion Week” (print)
October
La Verdad (Venezuela): “Sin distinción de sexos”
Huffington Post: “FABRICATIONS: 14 Fashion Designers Who Are Queering The Fashion Industry”
Broadly (Vice): “Where Are All the Queer Girls in Fashion?”
September
The New York Times: “From Coded Couture to Bionic Beauties, the 7 NYFW Moments You Need to See”
Refinery29: “Genderqueer’s Fashion Night at the Museum”
Mashable: “Queer Fashion Is Not a Trend for People to Co-opt”
BuzzFeed: “This Is What Happens At New York Fashion Week’s Biggest Queer Runway Show”
HuffPost Style: “We Asked for More Diversity at NYFW, and Here’s What Happened” 
HuffPost Gay Voices: “VERGE 2015 Fashion Show: Largest Showcase of Queer Designers at NYFW”
The Daily Dot: “Androgynous Models Are the New Stars of New York Fashion Week”
The Advocate: “Queer Style Takes on New York Fashion Week”
Out: “NYFW: Behind the Scenes at Verge, the Largest Queer Fashion Show”
Daily Motion: “Verge Queer Fashion Show at NYFW”
Autostraddle: “Queer New York Fashion Week: A Parade of Bold Ideas and Fresh Faces”
AfterEllen: “Backstage at VERGE: Queer New York Fashion Week’s event without Models and Designers”
SheWired: “11 Pics of the Dapper Set that Make Us Want to Up Our Wardrobe Game”
Aol On: “Verge Queer Fashion Show at NYFW”
Hopes and Fears: “Inside the Largest Queer Event at New York Fashion Week”
Time Out New York (Print): “Best Effing Fashion Week Ever”
Time Out New York: “Verge Collective Fashion Show”
HuffPost Gay Voices: “Here’s Where You Can See the Largest Queer Fashion Show During NYFW”
The Advocate: “How Queer Fashion Is Changing the World”
Huffington Post Live: “Queer View: Gaydar, Graysexuality, and Queer Fashion”
BRIC TV: Verge
August
New York Magazine’s The Cut: “Is Agender Fashion a Trend, or a Social Movement?”
Yahoo Style: “6 Important Talking Points From ‘The Changing State of Gender In Fashion’ Panel”
July
Mic: This Androgynous Model Is Shattering Gender Norms — but Also Revealing Fashion’s Limits
Advocate: 15 More Queers and Allies to Watch
June
GO! Magazine: 100 Women We Love
Bedford + Bowery: Photos: Designers Cast a Queer Fashion Show at Brooklyn Museum
May
Crains New York Business: “Fashion frontier: Serving the ‘gender-fluid masculine-identified queer female’ since 2013”
BuzzFeed: “8 Ways To Get Rid Of The Button-Down Boob Gap”
April
MSN: “Queer Fashion Is Not A Trend: It’s A ‘Social Movement’”
Huffington Post Live: “Queer Fashion Week’s Impact On LGBTQ Style” 
San Diego Gay and Lesbian News: “Queer Fashion Is Not A Trend: It’s A ‘Social Movement’”
March
S. Moda: Sin género: más allá del unisex
February
GO Magazine: Captivating Couples 2015 (Anita & Senka)
OUT Magazine: Beyond Measure: A Fashion Collaboration To Honor Social Activists
January
Vice: Fashion Labels Are Finally Catering to Butch Women and Trans Men
LA Daily News: Long Beach Center to offer pop-up store for masculine women, transgender men
Fashionista: How One Custom Suit Brand Is Elevating Queer Fashion
Mic: Clothing Stores Are Setting a Powerful Example That All Businesses Should Follow
2014
December
The Huffington Post Canada: Future Is The Future Is A New Gender-Neutral Clothing Store Based In Toronto
Curve: When Health & Fashion Intersect
The Huffington Post: FABRICATIONS: Meet Trans Fashion Designer Auston Björkman Of Sir New York
The Advocate: PHOTOS: ‘Black Lives Matter’ at Genderqueer Fashion Show
Elixher: Fashion’s Queer Night Out: Androgynous Style Steps into the Spotlight
Nylon: all the inspo for andro and masculine style you’ll ever need right this way
Velvet Park: (un)Heeled: A Fashion Show for the Unconventionally Masculine
Vice: DapperQ Is Hosting a Fashion Show for the Unconventionally Masculine at the Brooklyn Museum
The Huffington Post: ‘(un)Heeled,’ Fashion Show For The Unconventionally Masculine, Slated For Brooklyn Museum
Next Magazine: Catch Brooklyn-based Designer Angie Chuang Tonight at Brooklyn Museum
Huffington Post Live: QueerView
Sharpe Heels: DapperQ Gets Un-Heeled
SheWired: DapperQ to Present Fashion Show for “Unconventionally Masculine” in Brooklyn NYC
Brooklyn Paper: Bow-ties for all! A fashion show for the ‘uncoventionally masculine’
BK Live: (un)Heeled
November
Advocate: Hot Sheet
October
AfterEllen: “Morning Brew”
September
KitchMix: “Watch the Debate: Gender Privileges between Butch and Femmes”
Autostraddle: “HuffPost Live Talked To Some of Your Favorite Butches and Femmes About Identity and More”
Huffington Post Live: dapperQ Editor-in-Chief, Anita Dolce Vita, talks with Huffington Post Live about butch/femme privileged and oppression.
Curve magazine (print): dapperQ founder, Susan Herr, featured in Curve’s September 2014 style edition
August
Curve magazine (print): dapperQ Editor-in-Chief, Anita Dolce Vita, featured in Curve‘s “Trends” for August 2014
The Firsky: “7 Awesome Resources for Masculine-of-Center Beauty”
LGBTQ Nation: “Fashion Industry, Retailers and the Challenges Faced by the Gender Binary”
July
Associated Press: “Fashion Retailers, Industry and the Gender Binary”
News & Observer: “Fashion Retailers, Industry and the Gender Binary”
Jezebel: “Fashion Won’t Serve LGBT Buyers? ‘Fine, We’ll Make Our Own Clothes.'”
Times Colonist: “Bad Service, Bad Fits: Dressing Off Gender Binary Can Be Challenge for Non-conformers”
March
Huffington Post: “Seven Menswear Brands Showcase Collections for Women and Trans* Customers”
I Am B. Alexander: “Gender Variants Take The Runway at Whitney Day / dapperQ Anniversary”
February
Time Out New York: “dapperQ’s Five-Year Anniversary Party at Avenue”
Autostraddle: “DJ Whitney Day & dapperQ’s Runway Show Featured Hot Dandy Looks, Threw One Dangerously Danceable Party”
Posture Magazine: “A Designer Recap of the dapperQ + Whitney Day Fashion Week Event”
Qwear: “dapperQ’s Five-Year Anniversary Fashion Show”
January
MTV/Logo’s After Ellen: “Watch Now! HuffPost Live Talks Menswear for Women” 
Huffington Post Live: “Making Men’s Fashion for Women”
Autostraddle: “You Should Go: dapperQ Fashion Show Extravaganza”
2013
December
DIVA magazine: “Haute for the Holidays” (Print)
Autostraddle: “He Said/We Said: Holiday Hauteness”
Style Defined: “He Said/We Said…hot looks for the holidaze”
Posture: “What is Queer Fashion?”
November
Wellesley College: “Panel Discussion Fashion, Gender & Identity”
September
Huffington Post Live: “Sometimes I Just Want to Look Gay”
Huffington Post: “You’re Too Pretty to Be Gay is Not a Compliment”
Autostraddle: “He Said/We Said: Game Changing Style”
Time Out New York: “Catwalk 718 at This n’ That”
August
Autostraddle: “dapperQ Infuses New York Fashion Week With Racial Diversity, Multifarious Gender Realness”
July
The New York Times: “A Masculine Silhouette, Tailored for Her”
SheWired: “Don’t Mess with dapperQ’s Smoldering Stylish 100 List”
Jezebel: “Here’s to Stylish Masculinity for Everyone”
June
Colorlines: “We’re Here, We’re Queer and We Look Real Cute”
All Women Stalk: “8 Must-Know Websites for Girls Who Like Girls”
Autostraddle: “He Said/We Said: Inspired by Gay St. in the West Village”
Autostraddle: “Feeling Dandy about Being Dapper”
May
Posture: Listed as Jesse Crozier’s source of inspiration
April
Globe and Mail (Canada’s largest-circulation national newspaper and second-largest daily newspaper): “Beyond ‘boyfriend’: How the tomboy look is going mainstream”
March
Autostraddle: “He Said/We Said: From Sea to Shining Sea”
Autostraddle: “Playlist: Pre-Game Dapper Primpin‘”
Huffington Post: “Gender Rebels Revolutionize Menswear in dapperQ’s He Said/We Said”
Autostraddle: “West Coast dapperQs take on He Said/We Said: The Name of the Game is McQueen”
Radio KVRX 91.7, University of Texas at Austin: “Tell it to a Butch”
February
Autostraddle: “The dapperQ Underwear Survey Surveys Your Underwear Anxieties and Dreams”
January
Autostraddle: Dress Shirts 101 and 201
A Collected Gentleman: “A Collected Style Interview: dapperQ”
2012
December
After Ellen: “Chicks Getting Hitched: Say No to The Dress”
Anita Dolce Vita (dapperQ Managing Editor) interview with SF Weekly: “Can Straight Women Be Femme?”
Newsweek magazine’s Daily Beast T.V. “Fashion’s Groundbreaking Gender Benders”
Style Defined: “dapperQ He Said/We Said”
November
Autostraddle “Boots For Your Masculine-of-Center Feet”
October
Autostraddle “The Style Manual: Suits 101”
Autostraddle “dapperQ’s He Said/We Said: Fall Fashion Is In The Details”
September
Dyke, A Quarterly “What The Well Dressed Dyke…Interview in dapperQ”
June
Autostraddle “He Said/We Said Brings Queer Sartorial Smarts to the Ivies”
March
Autostraddle “dapperQ’s He Said/We Said Is Ready for New Threads”
February
Autostraddle “dapperQ’s He Said/We Said Brings Style, Inspiration, Diversity, Realness”
Autostraddle “Boots 101”
Autostraddle “Dressing Rooms: Legal, Physical and Emotional”
My Style’s Interview with Jahn Hall
Bitch Magazine (print review)
Curve Magazine (print feature and photo spread, “Fine and Dandy”)
2011
December
Autostraddle “New Year’s Eve Fashion Part Two: Maybe You Should Rock a Bow Tie”
September
Next magazine “‘Bagel Boy’ Wins Mr. Transman FTM Pageant 2011 on a Platform of Bagels, Breakdancing and Free Beer”
Autostraddle “The Jeans Issue: Queer Fashion Guide for Various Shapes, Styles and Gender Expressions”
Autostraddle “If You’re Dandy and You Know It DapperQ is for You”
AfterEllen “He Said/We Said” (sixth installment)
June
AfterEllen “He Said/We Said” (fourth installment)
AfterEllen “He Said/We Said” (Pride edition)
April
AfterEllen “Gay Ole Opry Brings Lesbians in Country Music to New York Tonight”
AfterEllen “Afternoon Delight: ‘The Glee Project,’ Lizbeanism on ’30 Rock'”
AfterEllen “He Said/We Said” (third installment)
Cute, Queer, Canadian “DapperQ and You”
March
AfterEllen “He Said/We Said” (second installment)
February
Go Magazine recognizes dapperQ contributor, Anita Dolce Vita, and Senka Filipovic as one of America’s Most Captivating Couples of 2011
2010
October
Susan Herr, dapperQ Transgressor-in-Chief, named fashion expert for GayWeddings.com
Autostraddle “Maro Hagopian, Photographer of Choice C*nts, Celebrities & Characters, Threw a Party”
August
Susan Herr, dapperQ Transgressor-in-Chief, makes Go Magazine’s 2010 class of “100 Women We Love”
May
Come Hither’s Untapped Gems
NerdGlam’s Butch Fashion
April
AfterEllen “Interview with Allison Miller”
March
Huffington Post “Butch lesbians have trouble finding wedding wear”
Washington Post “Same-sex Weddings Open
the Door to Finding the Right Male Attire for Women”
The Butchelor’s Daily Coolness
Genderfork’s recommendation
February
Feministing Introducing dapperQ
Velvet Park “DapperQ on Art, Fashion and Gender”