Fabulous and Fierce (2025) by Andy Sylvester Size:75x100 cm / 30x40″ It’s soft masculinity

It’s soft masculinity

The campaign helped make the Arrow Collar Man an early advertising sex symbol

sensual and self-possessed

Gold comments on the today's need to be both vulnerable and marketable - to trade authenticity for attention

softness becomes its own kind of power: staged

Fabulous and Fierce (2025) by Andy Sylvester Size:75x100 cm / 30x40″ It’s soft masculinityFabulous and Fierce is a close cropped, portrait of a drag queen. She looks down at us, immaculately made up. In her purple wig and cyan eye make up she is a force to be reckoned with. She wears a classic suit and cameo brooch. This girl means business and shes judging you. Sylvester captures not just the portrait image, but the fierceness of drag performers. Rendered in thick, expressive strokes, this piece channels the fabulousness of drag culture