On TikTok, a new generation of trans and queer artists is transforming fashion into a space for healing, expression, and resistance. With tattooed binders, hand-sewn lingerie, and DIY creations, they are redefining the boundaries of gender. Spotlight on Gabby Clarke (@honeydewd), a trans tattoo artist turning binders into living canvases, and on inclusive brands like Urbody, Origami Customs, TomboyX, and Rebirth Garments, which celebrate trans bodies in all their beauty.
Trans Fashion : Poetic and Defiant
What if the fashion revolution was being stitched together on the margins? On TikTok, trans and queer artists are redefining intimacy and style with boldness, tenderness, and sincerity. Far from the dictates of gender and cisnormative standards, they transform clothing into manifestos, into rituals of bodily reclamation. It’s no longer just a matter of style—it’s an act of survival, of pride, of desire.
Among these creators is Gabby Clarke (@honeydewd), a U.S.-based trans tattoo artist who makes a radical choice: turning a daily object—the binder—into a work of art. This compression garment, used to flatten the chest, becomes a living canvas. In black ink, Gabby draws serpents, flowers, flames, and mythological creatures across it. The binder transforms, shedding its functional role to become embodied art.
If we have to wear a binder, why not make it beautiful? Why not make it feel like ours? The chest becomes a canvas, the binder a soft armor, and the pain tied to this constraining garment turns into pride.
Queer Lingerie and Intimate Fashion: A Revolution of Care
Gabby’s creations are only the tip of a broader movement. On TikTok, Instagram, and Etsy, independent brands—often run by transmasculine, non-binary, and queer people—are reinventing lingerie and intimate wear for marginalized bodies. Urbody, TomboyX, Origami Customs, and Rebirth Garments offer pieces that celebrate the body instead of hiding it.
Gone are the cold, medical undergarments. In come lace, soft fabrics, and bold cuts.
These brands don’t try to “fix” the body—they honor it as it is, with all its edges, angles, and curves. Often made to measure, in close dialogue with their communities, these inclusive pieces champion a form of self-care that is both intimate and political.
Fashion as Refuge and Affirmation
This new trans aesthetic is about more than looks—it belongs to a larger movement blending sewing, tattooing, self-portraiture, and self-affirmation. On TikTok, creators’ videos are spaces of vulnerability and tenderness. We see hands sewing, tattooed torsos, confessions made through fabric. This isn’t fashion that seeks mainstream appeal—it tells the truth of bodies, with no compromise and no shame.
It is refuge and mirror, both deeply personal and deeply communal. It heals as much as it demands. It turns every piece of clothing into an act of affirmation, reclamation, and longing.
A Radically Queer Beauty
In a fashion industry still ruled by gendered and exclusionary standards, these queer artists redefine clothing as a political act. Tattooed binders become living skins, lovingly sewn tulle boxers and genderless lingerie become emblems of survival and reinvention.
Queer fashion doesn’t aim to be trendy—it aims to be true.
What if the revolution comes from the margins?
What if clothing becomes a poem?
A site of experimentation and pride, a space of reconciliation—with oneself and with the world.
In these new digital territories, beauty becomes political, clothing becomes an act of survival, and the trans body becomes a living poem no one can erase.
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