Who Has Big Dick Energy In The Fashion Industry?

Last week FIB’s staff writer Victoria Chong endowed us with a serious schooling in “BDE,” otherwise known as “Big Dick Energy.” The internet has positively lit up on the elusive matter since Ariane Grande tweeted (and hastily deleted) about how generously endowed her fiancé Pete Davidson is.

“BDE” is a Twitter-spawned shorthand for someone who exudes the quiet but undeniable confidence that comes from having a big dick. It’s not about ego, or money, or power. It’s not even about having an actual dick. Lots of women have BDE. BDE is purely spiritual.

So just who in the global world of style and fashion has the biggest Big Dick Energy? FIB breaks out some of the obvious contenders, and lists some other notables who surely don’t.

 

ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Had a tureen load of “BDE”. From junkie cook to best selling novelist, to globally adored TV show host who dined with Presidents and despots, and was always cool. It’s not hard to imagine now somewhere Bourdain laughing, possibly in a Vietnamese phở shack, if someone told him he was going to be remembered for having the air of someone possessing gargantuan reproductive organs.

 

MICHELLE LAMY

Rick Owens muse and partner has a cauldron of it. In fact both Rick Owens and Michele Lamy exude Big Dick Energy by themselves, but when combined they become a Big Dicked force to be reckoned with. Whether they’re erecting furniture constructed from effigies of themselves, showing up to their own parties six hours late, or throwing pseudo-orgies for music videos, Owens and Lamy are unfailingly committed to being unapologetically themselves, whatever anyone else thinks.

 

TOM FORD

The man that brought sex back into fashion at Gucci clearly has it. Tom’s Big Dick Energy is so big he’s somehow managed to keep the face of a 30-year- old, but is actually 56. Or could that be to do with cosmetic surgery? Ford occasionally appears in his own ads with shirt unbuttoned and the gleam of “BDE” in his eyes.

 

DONATELLA VERSACE

The original Versace muse, might be just 5 foot tall in her Wolford stockings, but to have done the mountains of Coke she did through the 80’s and still be taking her bows at the Versace Runway at Fashion Week, shows us she def has to have it.

 

BEYONCE

Yes – but apparently at Jay Z’s expense.

 

CATE BLANCHETT

Australia’s own, wears the pants in her family and obviously has it.

 

RIHANNA

Yep. That’s Rihanna demonstrating the feminine strain of BDE at this year’s Met Ball.

 

IDRIS ELBA

Actor, kick boxer, badass. Has it. No question.

 

VIRGIL ABLOH

Only a man with “BDE” could go from helping design Kanye’s Merchandise and end up as head of Louis Vuitton menswear in five years.

 

DONALD GLOVER

That’s a firm yes from us. The multi-talented Donald Glover is a writer, actor, musician, comedian, producer and director, who performs under the stage name Childish Gambino. And yes, this is America!

 

DONALD TRUMP

The other Donald clearly he has “LDE”. No need to elaborate.