Recently launching his podcast ‘What’s Your Medium’, Gunnar Deatherage takes his passions as a modern-day Renaissance man and turns his seductive voice of velvet into a soothing moment of sharing. A favorite on ‘Project Runway’ and ‘Project Runway Allstars’, Deatherage won me over a long time ago with his penchant for all things colorfully fabulous, and the way he injects wit and humor, along with knowing pop culture nods into much of his work.
His talent has translated into interior and set design, which he’s putting to good use in Los Angeles, but it’s his TikTok page that is garnering frenzied acclaim of late, so much so that he’s tapped into the world of podcasts to bring his dreamy dulcet tones into an aural exploration of artistic media and inspiration. The care and detailed expression he puts into all of his artistic endeavors are what sets him apart (see the way he carefully presses seams to make them neat and beautiful) and what inspires me most about his work. It’s a majestic melding of hard work and talented artistry. Executing a vision is not always an easy task, and the challenge of any artist is how to translate what they have in their head into a way that reads on the page, in a dress, through the angles and opulence of a room. Deatherage not only manages that, but does so in a way that simultaneously challenges what we think is possible.
He’s often straddled the prescribed line between male and female, masculine and feminine, and his greatest works not only blur that line, but create another plane entirely for something altogether removed and exalted beyond those ancient terms. In shattering such limited terms, Deatherage crafts a new world that has more than enough room for new visions. For all of us who have ever felt uncomfortable in the clothes generally assigned to our perceived gender, who wanted something more than what society has formally decreed, we have artists and visionaries like Deatherage to help us find our wings – to unfurl their feathers and take magnificent flight.
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