This year, the freewheeling fashion prodigy cemented himself as an androgynous icon, appearing in Louis Vuitton’s Spring/Summer 2016 womenswear campaign and flouting restrictive gender norms at every turn while peacocking around in flower crowns and skirts.
It’s the kind of unfettered confidence that first drew Louis Vuitton’s creative director Nicolas Ghesquière to Smith. “He represents a generation that has assimilated the codes of true freedom, one that is free of manifestos and questions about gender,” Ghesquière said back in January. “Wearing a skirt comes as naturally to him as it would to a woman who, long ago, granted herself permission to wear a man’s trench or a tuxedo.”
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