

She gets a lot of comparisons to LeAnn Rimes, which feels like a gift for her younger self, who used to sing “Blue” in the back of her father’s pickup truck. Norris has mid-back-length hair and a masterly understanding of her face. As she put it, “I’ve learned to be unashamed about the fact that I am in love with myself.” That applies to materials like fabric but also community and selfhood.

“Designers should be adding value to their materials,” she said. On a recent evening at Petit Paulette in Fort Greene Park, Ms. She brings together those who don’t even realize they are together in her togetherness. She brings together friends to dance late into the night in Prospect Park for her 31st birthday.
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She brings together people for actions, like printing and distributing free Black Trans Lives Matter T-shirts across the city. She brings together clothing she deconstructs and reconstructs into something new. “There’s a lot of vetting, especially with Outlier. “I do like the rigor that goes with a lot of men's wear purchases,” Ms. Outlier, founded in 2008 by Abe Burmeister and Tyler Clemens, makes durable clothing inspired by workwear with invented touches like “dreamweight,” synonymous with floatiness, and “bombtwill,” which is an extra-strong denim-like material. The first group avidly collects pieces from Willie Norris for Outlier, the men's wear brand where she has been design director since early 2020. Generally, these two fandoms don’t know the other exists. creatives whose affection for Willie Norris’s work is fostered by the bonds it highlights among them, the ways clothing is a badge for belief in the dissolution of society’s boundaries of identity. (They’re mostly men but increasingly women and nonbinary folks, too.) The second are L.G.B.T.Q. The first fans are tech-savvy men’s wear aficionados who love to bro down with other detail-obsessed fabric fetishists, sharing their outfits and reviewing new garments on online platforms like Reddit and Discord. The fashion designer Willie Norris has two fan bases who are apt to recognize her in her Brooklyn neighborhood, show her that they are wearing clothes she designed, and possibly shed tears.
