Male model Ziad al-Mesfer is testing gender norms in Saudi Arabia

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Male model Ziad al-Mesfer is testing gender norms in Saudi Arabia Ziad al-Mesfer is pushing gender norms in Saudi Arabia as he follows global brands' embrace of androgynous fashion.

Saudi model Ziad al-Mesfer’s stylist fixes his hair before posing for his private photographer, in Tahliya street in the capital Riyadh, on 9 April 2022.

Mesfer has built a massive social media following while blazing a trail for the handful of Saudi male models brave enough to don garments widely seen as appropriate for women only, thereby flouting their country’s famously rigid gender norms. Image: Fayez Nureldine / AFP

 

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