Jaden Smith Skirts a Revolution—and should More Men Should Join Him?

The actor has worn skirts before, and now he is fronting a major womenswear fashion campaign wearing one. Will men follow his example?

That there is so very little fuss about Jaden Smith wearing a skirt—he’s the new face of Louis Vuitton womenswear—says a lot about both contemporary society’s thoughts about gender fluidity and also the determinedly different Jaden Smith.

Smith’s latest fashion moment was launched by Nicolas Ghesquière, Vuitton’s creative director, via a set of images on Instagram, featuring looks from the Spring/Summer 2016 campaign.

This isn’t Smith’s first time rocking a dress. Last May, he attended a prom with Hunger Games actress Amandla Stenberg wearing a dress, and he has Instagrammed his love of going to Topshop “To Buy Some Girl Clothes, I Mean ‘Clothes.’”
Smith, it appears, doesn’t give a fig about fashion and gender’s strictures and conventions. It’s refreshing to watch his bold, devil-may-care experimentation, especially as such experiments can garner some pretty nasty racist comments online.