Style Profile: Diana Apsara, Paris

Style Profile
Written By Sonny Oram

Diana Apsara is a Parisian trans-fem model and artist-designer. Inspired by the anti-fashion movement, her designs are mainly recycled and upcycled. After she experienced discrimination from the parisian fashion sphere due to her coming out as a trans model, Diana founded Classy X design in early 2018: an ethical, LGBTQ+ & plus-size inclusive fashion project. Diana aims to create a more inclusive and diverse space in the fashion world.

 

Fight Like a Girl

Handmade necklace: Classy X design
Upcylced jean jacket: Classy X design
Crop top: thrifted
Pants: thrifted
Shoes: thrifted

 
 
 
 

Jumpsuit Night

Handmade jumpsuit: Classy X design
Jacket: thrifted
Shoes: Eram

 
 
 

Spiky Queen

Upcycled bra: Classy X design
Shorts: Levi's (thrifted)

 
 



Where did you grow up & where do you live now?
I grew up in the suburbs of Paris. I love traveling, I'm kind of nomadic parisian.

How do you think your friends would define your style?
My friends would define my style as "sexychic," glam, and rock. A mix of many styles merged together. One day a good friend said that I am "a kind of parisian gypsy-queer-queen... in a black dress "... why not!

What’s your favorite item in your wardrobe?
My fetish accesories are my gypsy creole earrings because I'm mixed French and Roma (romani gypsy from Hungary & Romania). It reminds me of my grand mother's style, my origins. It's almost like a lucky charm. I can never have too much of this jewelry.

What’s your biggest style challenge?
To not change my outfit five times before going out.

Who’s your style icon?
Jean Paul Gaultier is a living icon of a more subversive and mainstream fashion at the same time. That is a challenge.

At his beginnings Brian Molko was incredible: his style dark and glamorous, his androgyny and his nonchalance sounded like a freedom space for me during my teenage hood.

Vivienne Westwood is such a terrible queen.
Lidewij Edelkoort is clearly a fashion ambassador from the future. She is an icon. Undeniably.

PHOTO CREDIT: ©Classy X design project 

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Sonny Oram

Boston-based multidisciplinary artist Sonny Oram is the founder of Qwear, a leading voice in the queer fashion movement for more than 15 years, and the author of the foreword to Queer and Trans Fashion Brands: Resistance and Revolution in the 21st Century (Bloomsbury Academic, 2025). His work has been featured in HuffPost, BuzzFeed, Design*Sponge, and QTYPE Magazine and he's spoken on panels at MIT, South by Southwest, and Simmons Nursing School.

His earliest published work was created at age ten: a series of collages made from cut-up magazines, accompanied by original text exploring themes of gender, cultural conditioning, predatory advertising, and media objectification. In 2025, images of these collages were published in Queer and Trans Fashion Brands: Resistance and Revolution (Bloomsbury Press) and the Fashion, Style & Popular Culture journal.

Through Qwear, Sonny has launched influential campaigns, including the award-winning #ThisIsWhatAsexualLooksLike with Yasmin Benoit, and continues to create spaces for underrepresented communities across internet and print media. He has also used search engine optimization (SEO) to increase the visibility and diversity of queer representation in online search results, helping terms such as “androgynous style,” “bisexual style,” and “asexual” reflect a broader range of identities and experiences.

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