The Finnish designer and creative director’s sensual, subversive garments empower butch bodies in the now, while their HÄN Archive project celebrates non-binary, trans, gender non-conforming and lesbian folks from the past.
WORDS BY JAMIE WINDUST PHOTOGRAPHY BY JODY EVANS MODELS: BAMBIE JORDAN PHILLIPS, DANNIE SPOONER, GII Welcome to Queer by Design, a new monthly column by GAY TIMES Contributing Editor Jamie Windust.
Here, Jamie profiles emerging designers about the intersections of style, identity and expression and how these factors inform their creative practice.
Transcending the lines between fashion and art, designer and creative director Ella Boucht’s subversively sexy tailoring is centred on empowering butch, trans and gender non-conforming folk through clothing.