Growing up in India, Gaur identified as a tomboy early on. “I had this sense of boys having more freedom than girls. Later, as a postgraduate student in LA, she swung hard in the opposite direction with frills, dresses and hyperfemininity before realising it wasn’t her. “Eventually, I settled into a place where it’s not masculine, it’s not feminine. It’s somewhere in the middle. That feels better.”
In high school, a senior once warned her, “You dress like a boy. You should know that men are not attracted to that.” The comment lodged itself somewhere in her brain. Years later, when she started dating her now husband, she briefly tried to course-correct. “I went shopping and bought this grey frilly dress. I don’t think I wore it more than once. I was like, OK, I cannot do this. It’s just not me.”
“I do think overall he is very secure in his masculinity and who he is,” she says. “So he doesn’t feel like his wife has to be feminine or look feminine to project a certain kind of image.” It helps that he’s a designer. “If he likes something, he’ll just say, ‘Oh wow, that looks cool, babe.’ It’s not limited to any specific kind of outfit. He sees the colour composition, the shapes.” In other words, he has taste. Marcella echoes that dynamic. “He absolutely loves it,” they say of their partner’s reaction to their personal style. “He’s very fashion-forward himself and it’s been great because we get to share closets.” Which, quite frankly, is the final frontier of any relationship.
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