Frida Kahlo’s father Guillermo Kahlo took these great photographs of the artist dressed as a young man in 1924.
This is Frida the rebel, pulling on a three-piece suit and tie, slicking back her hair, adopting a fixed and purposeful look, and the stance of a young man about town. Everything about her in the picture is a sign of her self-expression, the fluidity of gender and her refusal to adhere to fixed masculine or feminine characteristics.
Via Dangerous Minds
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