Bad Bunny doesn’t follow trends, he sets them. For a new interview with The Guardian, the Puerto Rico native spoke openly about his senses of style. GQ. Bad Bunny, whose real name is Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, is a pioneer among the Latinx community, not only for his music, but also for his fashion. In a culture that is still heavily associated with machismo a.k.a. The artist shows masculine pride by pointing out that clothes are genderless and breaking down barriers.
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“It depends on my state of mind,”He spoke out about his changing style to the publication. “Everybody has to feel comfortable with what they are, and how they feel. Like, what defines a man, what defines being masculine, what defines being feminine? I really can’t give clothes gender. To me, a dress is a dress. If I wear a dress, would it stop being a woman’s dress? Or vice versa? Like, no. It’s a dress, and that’s it. It’s not a man’s, it’s not a woman’s. It’s a dress.”
One recent example of Bad Bunny’s androgynous style was his 2022 Met Gala look. He wore a classic blue collared shirt and black tie, a tan puff-sleeve jacket and skirt as a way to honor both women’s and men’s fashion in Puerto Rico during the Gilded era.
He continued, “Latino culture is very machista. So, that’s why I think everything that I’ve done has been even more shocking .… Urban Latin music, reggaeton, is a genre where you have to be the manliest, the baddest. That’s why it’s the most shocking too.”
Bad Bunny also spoke out against the stereotypical image of a reggaeton musician. “But why? If I dress this way, I can’t sing this way? Or if I dress like this, I can’t listen to this type of music?”
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