![]() ![]() I’m glad that I didn’t pretend that I knew everything about our community and had been immersed in it my whole life. The outpouring of love from the LGBTQIA community has been amazing because there are so many people in the same situation as me - they live in the non-coastal states, they live in the non-major cities so they have similar experiences as me. How has that shifted since the show aired and you’re now on a very public platform? In this season, you met a trans person for the first time, and you’ve mentioned throughout the series that you’re not as connected to the LGBTQ+ community as the rest of the Queer Eye boys are. ![]() I’ve been inspired by runways for the longest time. I started doing that on my days off when I was maybe 13 or 14, when I entered high school. I would adjust them, alter them, add the embellishments they had on the runway. I could sew, so I would buy fabric from the store and try to recreate it, or I would change little things that I had that could be comparable. I would try to find looks I could rip off. Every month I would go and the librarian knew to keep it on hold for me because I was the only person in the school who would ever ask for it. I couldn’t afford magazines - we didn’t have a lot of money - so I would go to the library in my school, and they would have this fashion magazine there, and I was obsessed with it. There was a magazine when I was a teenager, and it was so long ago I can’t remember the name. Was there anyone or anything that influenced your style growing up? She was the one who always did it, and I thought if it’s good enough for her, I’m going to continue on. Do you remember the scene where is in a green blazer and a pair jeans and a pair of boots? I see Frasier in that! Like the sexiest version of Frasier would wear that if he were 35 in 2018.Īctually can I tell you one of the people who really encouraged me to do it - I don’t know her personally - was Jenna Lyons. What would he wear on a weekend date? Would he wear those hideous pants still? No, he’d wear a pair of jeans in this day and age. So Frasier Crane wasn’t stylish, he was never known for being stylish, but I imagine he would be in a button down because he’s always in a button down, he would be in a blazer because he’s always in a blazer. ![]() I still try to tailor what they’re asking for, I just try to do the best version of that guy. How do you handle those moments in which someone’s ideal is so far removed from your idea of style and reality?įirst and foremost in those moments, you recoil and retreat into a closet, and when you compose yourself, I try and find a version in my head where it’s like if Frasier Crane went shopping one day and it’s still him, but he wants to dress for a date, what would he go for? And then elevate that even further. However I do remember thinking, “Oh shit, I don’t know if I can help him look like Frasier because I’m not willing to let him look like Frasier.” I think all that was going on through my head was What happened? What happened to you where you thought Frasier was stylish? What happened in your life that made you think this is okay? ![]() We shot this over a year ago so I don’t know the exact thought that was going through my head. “I love that we’re able to represent many different versions of gay men on this show.” There’s power in nuance, and France is making the most of it. “I’m glad that I didn’t pretend that I knew everything about our community and had been immersed in it my whole life,” he explains. He’s been vocal about how he’s not as immersed in the LGBTQ+ culture as his fellow castmates, and for France, it just means another opportunity to grow and reach different people. His presence on the show is incredibly nuanced, too - when was the last time you saw a gay, Muslim, Middle Eastern man get screen time on TV?Īs France rescues the series’s Heroes from the throes of sartorial tragedy with his go-to styling trick, the French Tuck, he does it while staying true to his unique experiences as a gay man. His buoyant and understanding nature is part of the reason Queer Eye has so much heart, and why each episode’s Hero, (the makeover subject) takes so well to France’s styling guidance. Despite the demands of his schedule, France bursts with an effervescence that’s tangible even through the phone, especially when we speak late last month. ![]()
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