Tomboy Femme Takes the Stage: F/ROW’s Rebellion at New York Fashion Week

This season at New York Fashion Week, I had the privilege of attending multiple shows with the boundary-breaking brand F/ROW, and what I witnessed was more than fashion — it was a cultural statement. F/ROW’s runway wasn’t just about clothes; it was about redefining the language of gender and power through fabric, color, and attitude.

The collections blurred lines with a striking precision — structured blazers paired with flowing skirts, lace trimmed with leather, oversized silhouettes meeting delicate accessories. The aesthetic lived somewhere between tomboy and femme, where softness and strength coexist, and where masculinity and femininity aren’t opposites but complements.

What stood out most was the emergence of feminine men embodying the tomboy femme aesthetic — men who didn’t shrink from softness but wore it as armor. The color pink, often dismissed as fragile or “too feminine,” became a weapon of defiance. These men weren’t wearing pink because they wanted to appear gentle; they were wearing it to say femininity is power.

In a world where femininity is still too often dismissed or devalued, F/ROW’s show flipped the script. It challenged the audience to rethink why we associate softness with weakness — and why men are told to avoid it. Watching these models walk, I saw confidence, rebellion, and liberation. It wasn’t about rejecting masculinity; it was about reclaiming femininity as something that doesn’t need to be hidden or apologized for.

F/ROW made a powerful statement this season: pink is not passive, femme is not fragile, and tomboy isn’t just a style — it’s a spectrum of self-expression. In their world, to be a feminine man is not to be less, but to be more — more aware, more free, and more unapologetically powerful. Pink is powerful. Femininity is powerful.