AOC weighs in on Harry Styles’ Vogue cover, says he looks “bomb”

"Clothes are there to have fun with and experiment with and play with," he said in his interview. "What’s really exciting is that all of these lines are just kind of crumbling away. "When you take away 'There’s clothes for men and there’s clothes for women,' once you remove any barriers, obviously you open up the arena in which you can play."

"I’ll go in shops sometimes, and I just find myself looking at the women’s clothes thinking they’re amazing. It’s like anything — anytime you’re putting barriers up in your own life, you’re just limiting yourself. There’s so much joy to be had in playing with clothes." But despite the large amount of support and applause the cover has received, some remain adamant that Styles should not have graced Vogue in a dress. https://www.instagram.com/p/CHiE4oEFMvw/?utm_source=ig_embed Among them are conservatives who deem the shoot an "attack" on masculinity, as well as some members of the queer community who argue that Vogue's first non-female cover star should have gone to a trans person instead. Performing artist and writer Alok Vaid-Menon wrote on Instagram that they had mixed feelings about the cover, writing that "our aesthetics make it to mainstream, not our bodies." "Am I happy to see Harry be celebrated for openly flouting gendered fashion norms? Yes. Do trans femmes of color receive praise for doing the same thing every day? No," they said. "We are still dismissed as 'too much' and 'too queer' because we aren't palatable enough to whiteness and heteronormativity. Is that Harry's fault? No. It's the fault of systems of transmisogyny and racism."