I saw a clip of Meryl Streep making the rounds on TikTok recently. She was on a panel hosted by The Washington Post. “Women have learned to speak the language of men; they have lived in the house of men all their lives,” she said, underscoring women’s fluency within a man’s world—in Hollywood and otherwise. “Women speak men. But men don’t speak women.”
Over on the runways, however, men seem to be able to “speak” women just fine. Gucci, Balenciaga, Louis Vuitton, Valentino, Burberry, Saint Laurent, Celine, Bottega Veneta and Loewe are all major luxury brands headed up by male creative directors. And now, with the departure of its longtime lead Sarah Burton, Alexander McQueen joins the already lengthy list.
These high-up designers, like Jonathan Anderson at Loewe and Gucci’s…
