Photo: Courtesy of Gucci1/9A trompe l’oeil cravat festoons a capeby Gucci from the exhibition’s catalog.
Photo: Courtesy of History and Art Collection / Alamy Stock Photo2/9The notorious Chevalier d’Eon, an 18th-century spy who was exiled from France as a man and returned as a woman.
Photo: Courtesy of History and Art Collection / Alamy Stock Photo3/9The Sun King in his crimson heels in a 1701 portrait by Hyacinthe Rigaud.
Photo: Courtesy of History and Art Collection / Alamy Stock Photo4/9The dandy— seen here in George Cruikshank’s caricature c. 1817—exemplified 19th-century notions of camp.
Photo: Courtesy of History and Art Collection / Alamy Stock Photo5/9A c. 1882 teapot, attributed to Richard William Binns, with an Oscar Wilde quote scrawled on the base.
Photo: Courtesy of History and Art Collection / Alamy Stock Photo6/9Susan Sontag, photographed by Peter Hujar in 1975.
Photo: Courtesy of History and Art Collection / Alamy Stock Photo7/9The Victorian era’s cross-dressers Frederick Park, a.k.a. Fanny (right), and Ernest Boulton, a.k.a. Stella, c. 1868–69.
Photo: Courtesy of History and Art Collection / Alamy Stock Photo8/9An 1882 caricature of Oscar Wilde with the aesthetic movement’s favored flora, the sunflower.
Photo: Courtesy of History and Art Collection / Alamy Stock Photo9/9A still of Marlene Dietrich in The Blue Angel, 1930.
