Style Profile: Trevor Hildebrand, Brooklyn

Style Profile
Written By Sonny Oram

23-year-old Trevor Hildebrand is an event planner and producer who moved to Brooklyn, New York to get his start planning queer events and parties. He hopes to continue pursuing modeling and fashion as his form of queer self-expression and creativity. Follow him on Instagram at @trevhilda.

This profile is brought to us by photographer Ali Rowenna.

G.N.O.

Earrings: Walmart
Necklace: Unknown, borrowed from friend
Sheer Dress: Purchased from Indian Summer Vintage in Capitol Hill, Seattle
Shorts: Jay Jacobs purchased from Trove Vintage in Ballard, Seattle
Socks: Forever 21
Shoes: T.U.K. Footwear

 
 
 
 

Cocktail Hour Glam

Earrings: Buffalo Exchange, Unknown Brand
Shirt: Goodwill, Unknown Brand
Pants: Topshop
Shoes: T.U.K. Footwear

 
 
 

Intermediate Fall

Earrings: Vintage, from Grandmother, brand unknown
Shirt: Goodwill, Brand Unknown
Pants: Prairie Underground
Shoes: T.U.K. Footwear

 
 
 
 
 

Where did you grow up & where do you live now?
I grew up in Fullerton, California. I now live in Brooklyn, New York

How do you think your friends would define your style?
My friends define my style as mostly androgynous. I wear 80% women’s clothing, but I also tend to stay on the more masculine side of female fashion. I love colorful pants, blouses, and earrings. Earrings are my favorite, I can never have too many.

What’s your favorite item in your wardrobe?
My favorite item in my wardrobe would probably be the all-sheer dress I am wearing in the G.N.O. outfit. That or these bright red, high-wasted, vintage Ann Taylor pants I have worn way too many times.

What’s your biggest style challenge?
I would say my biggest style challenge is shoes. I don’t have nearly enough, and I always have the hardest time finding shoes that feel like they work with my overall androgynous yet still feminine style.

Who’s your style icon?
I draw a lot of my fashion inspiration from the drag and club kid worlds. One major style icon to me would be Jeffrey Scott, a designer/club kid based in NYC. And Dua Lipa. I love her fashion always. I’m a pop girl, through and through.

Photos by Ali Rowenna

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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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