Creativity Quote by Brian Molko

Molko’s line lands because it treats gendered clothing not as a manifesto, but as logistics. “Impractical in social situations” is a sly, almost deadpan nod to how a dress changes the physics of daily life (movement, weather, bathrooms) while also changing the social temperature around you. The word “impractical” quietly shifts the blame from the wearer to the world: it’s not that he can’t wear a dress; it’s that the setting makes it costly.

Then comes the pivot: “but I enjoy wearing them a great deal on stage.” Stage is permission structure. In rock, especially the glam-adjacent lineage Molko taps, performance has always been a legal loophole for transgression. Onstage, exaggeration is the point; spectatorship turns potential ridicule into aesthetic. He isn’t claiming a stable identity category so much as describing a tool: a dress as amplification device, a way to dramatize vulnerability, androgyny, menace, softness, whatever the song demands.

The subtext is the double bind of visibility. Offstage, a dress invites policing, assumptions, questions you didn’t ask for. Onstage, the same garment reads as intention, authorship, control. Molko’s phrasing keeps it personal (“I find,” “I enjoy”) and refuses to sermonize, which is exactly why it carries cultural weight. It frames gender play as craft and pleasure, while still acknowledging the social tax that makes that pleasure easier to access under lights than under daylight.