Alok Vaid-Menon

Alok V Menon (they/them) is a mixed-media artist whose work to create a world beyond the gender binary has been internationally renowned. As a leading voice in the movement to de-gender fashion and beauty industries, Alok has worked as both a designer and a model — creating three gender-neutral fashion collections, walking for Opening Ceremony and Studio 189 at NYFW, and modelling for fashion editorials in Vogue, Canadian Fashion Magazine and Laud Magazine. In 2017 Alok was awarded the Live Works Performance Act Award granted to 10 performance artists across the world and released their critically acclaimed poetry chapbook Femme in Public