Fashion Guru Tan France Faced Racism As a Kid. Then He Brushed Off Bullies and Discovered Self-Love
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For details, contact 66523871/ During this time, all therapists and Mamangam is an art and performance 31326749. Compiled by Nausheen Shaikh. E-mail: [email protected], Events and timings subject to change 4 GULF TIMES Sunday, July 28, 2019 COMMUNITY COVER STORY “Find people that you can connect with” — Tan France, fashion guru SUNDAY CONVERSATION Any of us go through a point where we are at our very lowest and we do things that are unwise. Thankfully, many of us find a way out of it with great support ‘ — Tan France a white person — nobody would By Christina Schoellkopf ever comment about your race,” he writes in the book. Today, he embraces his skin ou might know him colour, calling it “the most from the French tuck or beautiful thing about my his distinctive hair. appearance.” But Queer Eye’s But he writes of others who are fashion guru Tan still less accepting. In a chapter YFrance wants fans to get to know titled 911, France describes being him beyond the surface. His new stopped at least 24 times for book, Naturally Tan, provides questioning in airport screening a deeper look at the English rooms. At the time, he was used to designer’s life. being called racial slurs like “Paki,”’ “I wanted the opportunity to but after 9/11, he was called a really say it as it is,” he told The “terrorist” and “raghead.” Times over the phone, “and to be “On the anniversary of 9/11 able to speak on things that I don’t … I see the words Never Forget,” think I’d be able to speak on, on the reads an excerpt from the chapter. show.” “I understand that sentiment. I “It’s the most real version you’ll completely agree with honouring come across of me for sure,” France those who lost their lives … But says. there is another side to this, too. As the title suggests, France It means we never forget to see my asserted it needed to be included. that’s how many of my people feel.” book is your journey to love speaks openly in the book about his people as a potential threat.” “It is the chapter that is the The Queer Eye star spoke with your skin colour. The book skin colour and how it’s aff ected France almost did not include the most controversial, because my The Times about racism he’s faced title and one of your chapters him from childhood to adulthood. chapter in his book, as he worried perspective is not often listened to, and his coming-out story. The is Naturally Tan. How did you At age 5, he remembers thinking, how the American public and press or heard or welcomed,” he told The following interview has been edited land on that phrase? “God, I’d give anything to be would respond. But a couple weeks Times.