Billy Porter had something to say — again — about Harry Styles‘ Vogue cover, and even went as far as calling editor Anna Wintour a “b*tch.”
In 2020, Harry Styles graced the cover of Vogue, becoming the first man to have a solo Vogue cover. He also did it while wearing non-binary clothes, including a dress. While there was some criticism about it, the former One Direction star received a lot of praise.
But Billy Porter had a lot to say about it. The actor, who is famous for flaunting fabulous non-binary fashion on red carpets, revealed, “I created the conversation [about non-binary fashion] and yet Vogue still put Harry Styles, a straight white man, in a dress on their cover for the first time,” he told The Sunday Times. “He is the one you’re going to try and use to represent this new conversation?“
In a new interview with Telegraph, Porter, 53, spoke again about Styles’ Vogue cover and him being the face of genderfluid and non-binary fashion. “It’s not Harry Styles’ fault that he happens to be white and cute and straight and fit into the infrastructure that way,” Porter, who is openly gay, said. “I call out the gatekeepers.”
The actor claimed that the Grammy winner, who has yet to publicly label himself or his sexuality, got the cover because he’s “white and he’s straight.”
“Non-binary blah blah blah blah. No,” Porter continued. “It doesn’t feel good to me. You’re using my community — or your people are using my community — to elevate you. You haven’t had to sacrifice anything.”
Billy Porter went as far as going for Anna Wintour, the famous Vogue editor-in-chief.
“That b*tch said to me at the end, ‘How can we do better?’ And I was so taken off guard that I didn’t say what I should have said,” Porter told the UK publication, which was, “Use your power as Vogue to uplift the voices of the leaders of this de-gendering of fashion movement. Six months later, Harry Styles is the first man on the cover.”
