Before Harry Styles, Kurt Cobain Rejected Toxic Masculinity

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Long before Harry Styles caused fatigue when using a Gucci dress on the Vogue cap in 2022, another icon of music and style had already challenged the binary standards of fashion. In 1993, Kurt Cobain, a vocalist in Nirvana, printed the cover of The Face magazine using a blue flower dress. With a black wiper and loose hair covered one of his eyes, Cobain looked casually to the reader next to the manchet: “Nirvana: In the court of King Kurt”.

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(CNN) – In 1993, Kurt Cobain shook the fashion world by appearing on the cover of The Face in a blue floral dress, black delineator and painted nails. The iconic image, accompanied by the headline “In the court of King Kurt”, became a visual manifesto against binary gender norms in the grunge era. The androgynist rebellion of Cobain rock merged male and female elements with naturality: beard with peeled enamel, cigars with delicate rings. “Using…