Fashion / Society

“The only real originality any of us have is our lived experience”: Alectra Rothschild’s Masculina and her muses are lifting the trans community

By Isabella Rose Davey

Designer Alectra Rothschild, whose brand, Masculina, specifically lifts up trans women (always figuratively, sometimes literally). Photo: Lana Ohrimenko

A Masculina runway show is unlike anything else on the Copenhagen Fashion Week schedule – a raucous celebration of the Danish trans community that’s never not serving. The success of the young brand is due as much to the chops of designer Alectra Rothschild as it is her to muses – the singular talents who bring the looks to life. We get to know Rothschild and her fabulous cast of more-than-models