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How high-fashion and music are colliding to dismantle gender norms.

We live in an era where exploring gender fluidity is welcomed and praised with the likes of Harry Styles and Yungblud challenging gender-norms. Music and high fashion come hand in hand but do they have the power to socially shift constructions and expectations of gender?  Madonna's 1989 album ‘Like A Prayer’, challenged social norms through fashion, challenging male misogyny and a woman’s position in a male's life through wearing outerwear as underwear with the likes of Jean Paul’s Gaultier cone-bra, impacting the third-wave feminist movement. Whilst the cone-bra enhanced and brought attention to Madonna’s breasts, the spiked design represented a weapon, allowing women to challenge the idea that these feminine features weaken them, and instead offer them greater power dismantling the idea that strong women are simply men-hating ‘bra burners’ but rather championing the idea that to be strong and own your body is sexy. In his December 2020 cover of Vogue, Harry Styles became the...