{"id":295,"date":"2023-08-23T14:55:54","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T21:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usflashgazette.com\/?p=295"},"modified":"2023-08-23T14:55:55","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T21:55:55","slug":"billy-porter-says-anna-wintour-asked-him-how-vogue-could-do-better-with-diversity-months-before-harry-styles-dress-cover-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usflashgazette.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/23\/billy-porter-says-anna-wintour-asked-him-how-vogue-could-do-better-with-diversity-months-before-harry-styles-dress-cover-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy Porter says Anna Wintour asked him how Vogue could &#8216;do better&#8217; with diversity months before Harry Styles dress cover controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Billy Porter is not over Vogue&#8217;s decision to\u00a0make Harry Styles the first man to wear a dress\u00a0on the cover of its magazine.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After Vogue published\u00a0its December 2020 issue, which featured Styles wearing a lace dress on the cover, Porter spoke out about how he felt that his own influence was behind\u00a0the trend of men embracing clothing typically worn by women. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"992\" height=\"623\" src=\"http:\/\/usflashgazette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screenshot_20230823_184953_Samsung-Internet.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/usflashgazette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screenshot_20230823_184953_Samsung-Internet.jpg 992w, https:\/\/usflashgazette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screenshot_20230823_184953_Samsung-Internet-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/usflashgazette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screenshot_20230823_184953_Samsung-Internet-768x482.jpg 768w, https:\/\/usflashgazette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screenshot_20230823_184953_Samsung-Internet-450x283.jpg 450w, https:\/\/usflashgazette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screenshot_20230823_184953_Samsung-Internet-780x490.jpg 780w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 992px) 100vw, 992px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In an interview with The Sunday Times, Porter said that he &#8220;created the conversation&#8221; around gender-fluid fashion and criticized Vogue&#8217;s decision to make Styles, &#8220;a straight white man,&#8221; the first to wear a dress on the cover. Though Porter went onto\u00a0publicly apologize to Styles,\u00a0it seems he still has an issue with the cover.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billy Porter is not over Vogue&#8217;s decision to\u00a0make Harry Styles the first man to wear a dress\u00a0on the cover of its magazine.\u00a0 After Vogue published\u00a0its December 2020 issue, which featured Styles wearing a lace dress on the cover, Porter spoke out about how he felt that his own influence was behind\u00a0the trend of men embracing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":296,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-295","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usflashgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usflashgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usflashgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usflashgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usflashgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usflashgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":297,"href":"https:\/\/usflashgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions\/297"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usflashgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usflashgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usflashgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usflashgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}