Bad Bunny isn’t the first global music star to wear a skirt. He isn’t the only man to walk in pearls or paint his nails in glossy pinks. But when a Puerto Rican reggaetón icon, built from the sounds of perreo and steeped in the bravado of Latinx masculinity, steps into traditionally “feminine” clothing, it doesn’t just make a fashion statement. It cracks something open.

Fashion has always been more than just clothes: it’s language, expression, rebellion, elegance, identity, and sometimes, all at once. A fashion icon is someone who doesn’t just follow trends, they set them. They don’t wear clothes; they own them. But more than what they wear, it’s how they wear it, what they represent, and the cultural ripple effect they create.