Tan France

About

Tanveer Wasim France (né Safdar; born 20 April 1983) is a British-American fashion designer, entrepreneur, and television personality. He is known as the fashion expert for the Netflix series Queer Eye, host of the web series Dressing Funny, and co-host of Next in Fashion. His memoir, Naturally Tan, was released in June 2019. Of Pakistani descent, he is one of the first openly gay men of South Asian ancestry on a major show, and one of the first openly gay Muslim men on Western television.

France was born Tanveer Wasim Safdar in Doncaster on 20 April 1983, the son of Muslim Pakistani immigrant parents. His father comes from a Potohari background, and his mother comes from a Punjabi background. In his memoir, he discussed his feelings of alienation growing up in Doncaster in a household where homosexuality was viewed negatively, the lack of representation in media of his community (and of LGBTQ Pakistanis in particular), and his personal experiences of physical and verbal racism as both a child and an adult. He said, “Our home wasn’t super religious but we had a profound connection to our Muslim heritage.”
France’s interest in fashion began at a young age, inspired by…