Kelly Marshall

Dec 15, 2023 | architecturaldigest.com | David Foxley |Kelly Marshall |Helen Crowther

“I’m an American, I’m a New Yorker,” says Robert Couturier, surrounded by his four shih tzus on a plush sofa at his Upper East Side apartment. “But if somebody asks me what I am, I would say I’m French. There are some things that stick to you like glue.” Which is why, after his relationship of almost a quarter century recently ended, the Paris-born designer allowed his native country to inspire his next chapter.

Mar 15, 2023 | kellymmarshall.medium.com | Kelly Marshall

By Kelly M. Marshall For a while since my gender transition, I took up the mantle of masculinity. It was impressed upon me, with my secondary sex characteristics like my new facial hair, deeper voice, and flat chest indicating to the general populace that I was to be catagorized as "he", rather than "she". And so I was and am treated as such. Some might think that this is what...