Billy Porter had the ultimate tribute to Broadway at Sunday’s 2019 Tony Awards.
ThePosestar, 49, walked the Radio City Music Hall red carpet on Broadway’s biggest night in a red suit with a flowing Elizabethan skirt made from the velvet curtain that used to hang atKinky Boots— the Cyndi Lauper musical he led back in 2012.
It was a sweet tribute, especially since the role won Porter his first Tony.
Stylist Sam Ratelle came up with the idea for the look,tellingThe New York Timesthat handbag company Scenery Bags — a company that makes accessories out of retired theater material — contacted him to see if Porter might be interested in a purse from the curtain.
Instead, Ratelle went to designer Sergio Guadarrama and creative director Cade Johnson of Celestino Couture to create the gown.
“I want to flip the question of what it means to be a man,” Porter told theTimes. “This question of masculinity, this sort of microscope of heteronormative masculinity that we are very often held up to, especially as leading men, needs to be shattered. You know, it’s toxic and I’m over it and I’ve lived it and I’m not doing it anymore.”
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Porter will be back for season 2 ofPose, which premieres on Tuesday.
The Tony Awards are currently airing on CBS.
source: people.com
