Photography Yoshiyuki Matsumura, styling by Mobolaji DawoduBeauty / Beauty newsBeauty / Beauty newsWhy Ezra Miller wearing make-up for his GQ Style shoot is everythingWe need to talk about EzraShareLink copied ✔️November 6, 2018November 6, 2018TextAlex Peters Today, the latest issue of GQ Style hits newsstands with Ezra Miller on the cover and we're obsessed. The editorial shoot for the magazine, shot by Yoshiyuki Matsumura and styled by Mobolaji Dawodu, features Ezra breaking gender expectations and looking hot doing it. With Ezra predominantly in womenswear and various shades of vampy lipstick, the shoot was a refreshing example of fluid gender expression and allowed Ezra room for his, self-described, “very strange and fluid expressions.” In the accompanying feature, Ezra tells interviewer Allie Jones that he identifies as gender fluid saying, “I’m comfortable with all pronouns. I let he/his/him ride and that’s fine.” This is not the first time the openly queer actor has worn make-up. His 2012 Paper Magazine cover saw the actor wearing red lipstick, while more recently he rocked some Fenty Beauty lip gloss on the red carpet for the Beijing Justice League premiere last year. Make-up has long been used to draw the battle lines of gender norms, but with Chanel recently debuting a men’s line of make-up, Boy de Chanel, Tom Ford’s inclusive lipstick collection, Boys and Girls, last year and Luka Sabbat’s campaign for Milk; we're seeing make-up increasingly being used as a tool for resistance and blurring the boundaries of gender. We hope this is just the beginning. Expand your creative community and connect with 15,000 creatives from around the world.READ MOREEveryone wants to be Chinese now (in a respectful, non-colonising way)Olivia Dean: ‘I feel the most myself I’ve ever felt’In pictures: 31 times Kate Moss had the best beauty looks5 more body art and SFX artists you need to followHow a good passport photo became the ultimate flexMazzy Joya shares her 2026 beauty affirmations6 women on their changing relationship with pubic hairMake-up artist Saint Maretto is rewriting the codes of queer beautyIn pictures: Unpacking David Bowie’s beauty evolution through the yearsKianna Naomi shares her 2026 beauty affirmationsRobots will never be able to beat a real, human manicureClers Bows is the SFX artist ‘nerding out’ on orthotics and prosthetics