Why Everything Is Finally Coming Up Billy Porter
Rarely has the symbolism been quite so overt. He'd already made a splash on the 2019 Golden Globes carpet, living for the hot pink satin-lined reveal of his glorious Randi Rahm cape.
And he'd caught the eye of Glenn Close and pretty much every editor tasked with putting together a best dressed list when he wore a custom Christian Siriano tuxedo-ballgown hybrid to the Oscars.
So when Pose standout Billy Porter was tasked with bringing camp to this May's Met Gala, he did the absolute most. "Any success I've had prior to Pose was me being campy so I know how to do that," he explained to The Guardian this fall.
So borrowing from an idea pitched by show creator Ryan...
