Between the Bees is a Blackbird Blog about fashion and ideas created by Dez.I started out as a customer of Blackbird a couple of years ago and quickly fell in love with the store. I am female bodied and have always preferred the quality, functionality, and design of menswear over womenswear. I always felt at home shopping at Blackbird and was impressed by the fact that they consistently stocked items that fit me.
Now, I’ve partnered with Blackbird as an Independent Fashion Agent! In the fashion industry, I fit into a hole in the market that is not catered to and is never researched in demographic market studies. My intention is to build a bridge over that hole. This blog is a tiny, elephant step towards such.
This blog has proven difficult to define, as it is the beginning of an exploration. Further, I want it to be inclusive. As soon as I start assigning language to it, such as male/female and masculine/feminine, it becomes exclusive and constrictive. I am interested in what is between these normative dichotomies in fashion. I like things that cannot be neatly packaged. I also have a background in visual art and architecture and am interested in examining the places where all three disciplines intersect. So, what defines this blog is precisely its evasion of definition. How’s that for confusing?
All suggestions and feedback are welcome and should be directed to me at dez@blackbirdballard.com.
