Wearing Maison Margiela, the actor covers Man About Town’s SS21 issue. Our gallery has been updated with the photoshoot.

The actor, muzeya şêwaz û bijareya Ryan Murphy tiştan bi xwe dike, dilxwaz e ku ji hêla bijareyên karîyera wî pê ve were pênasekirin.

Ger yek wêneyek hebe ku dema ku hûn Cody Fern difikirin tê bîra we, dibe ku ew ji Gloverên Zêrîn be, vegeriya hundur 2019. Ev di Berê Times de bû, gava xalîçeyên sor hîn jî tiştek bûn, û Fern hebû, li Maison Margiela derxist. Boots Black Tabi, çaroxa reş-bejindirêj, û blûzek bişkokkirî ya reş, ji milên jor ve paqij. It was the kind of outfit that seemed to make the whole world stop and wonder, perhaps collectively: who the fuck is that? Soon, they would all find out.

Until that point, Fern had been best known for appearing in The Assassination of Gianni Versace as David Madsen, the second victim of serial killer Andrew Cunanan. But he now found himself at the centre of a “gender-fluid fashion” moment, an overnight style icon who would soon feature on the cover of a certain gentleman’s magazine under the headline: “Hollywood’s genderfuck rebel”.

“I knew exactly what it was going to do,” he says now, of the reaction the look generated. “And the thing is, I didn’t give a shit.”

Had he changed fashion? Had he tipped the very concept of gender on its head? Even Fern is unconvinced (“did we forget about Bowie?” he asks). But what he had done is walked into the Margiela store in LA and bought the outfit himself, right off the rack, because no one had wanted to dress him for the awards. That would change very quickly.

“I had been playing the game of wearing the suit with the nice tie and trying to fit in, so there was part of me that thought fuck that,” he says of his style up until that point. “So doing that at the Golden Globes? It was actually for me. It was like shedding that skin.”

Five months later, Fern was in New York. It was May, Met Gala season, and that year’s theme was “Camp: Notes on Fashion”, based on an essay by Susan Sontag. Lady Gaga had four outfit changes; Harry Styles wore an all-black ensemble with sheer sleeves; Shawn Mendes li xwe kir, baş, kincek. Lê Fern dixwest awayên ku wî li Zêrên Gloverî kiribû hêviyan biguheze, û wî tenê riya ku pê biçe zanîbû…

Cody Fern Maison Margiela li ser bergê Man About Town SS21 pirsgirêk li xwe dike. Ji bo ku çîroka bergê tevahî bixwînin, berî niha pirsgirêkê ferman bikin.