In the future imagined by Young Girl Reading Group, voices of womxn, people of color and the queer community are at the forefront.

Throughout his career, Cardin has challenged conventions with an experimental, space-age aesthetic that seems to look good on everyone -- Jackie Kennedy, The Beatles, and Bridget Bardot have worn his clothes.

The boilersuit isn't a question of turning women into little girls in rompers or cleavage-bearing femme fatales (as fabulous as those looks can be). This is about grown women saying: pass me the wrench. We've got a broken culture to repair.

Gone are the days of formal wear being expected when traveling. Air travel now demands a certain level of comfort. We have to ignore our typical standards of privacy to eat, sleep, and use a washroom when surrounded by hundreds of strangers. So why not take it a step further and throw on a face mask?

Gernreich’s designs -- clothes that come from a place of meaning, with a radically hopeful view of the future -- are the perfect antidote to the increasingly nihilistic contemporary runways.

"More sex workers now are visible in public where they’re being taken seriously as humans. It just happened inch by inch."

Deep down, I have always been drawn to looking femme but was afraid that I was not good enough for it — but actually, there is no right or wrong way to look femme, and looking femme, in fact, has nothing to do with being a woman.

“The whole point of fashion is to make fashionable clothes available to everyone,” said British designer Mary Quant, who is credited with the invention of stylish, youthful clothing that cleverly took advantage of post-war manufacturing technology -- but at what cost?

Garments that mimic the body are happy to inhabit multiple meanings, playing with concealment and exposure, human and animal, mimicry and deviation, humour and horror, thriving life and fallible mortality. They plunder the worlds of art and medicine and horror and history with glee.

Who's in the frame, where the work's coming from, who's the work for, who's the audience? Also, how intimate is it?