my second
#metgala—and nothing compares.
@voguemagazine , anna wintour, and andrew bolton: thank you as ever for including me
i wore custom
@hm with a corset underneath by the legendary
@misterpearlofficial
the met's dress code this year, 'the garden of time,' samples its name from a short story by j.g. ballard. it's a fanciful little allegory which, the way i saw it, unmines the tension between the future and the past
this lead me to think about high glamour: how it looks, why it looks like that, where it comes from. i took my 'avedon fashion' book off the shelf, opened it up. i locked onto margot mckendry in the background of a photo from 1961 (slide 3). she reminded me of crystal labeija (slide 5) in frank simon's 1968 documentary 'the queen,' which goes behind the scenes of a manhattan drag pageant (in 1968, dressing in drag was effectively illegal). so i thought about how the visual ideal of glamour travels, from high society to its fringes—and all the way through the decades. what does it mean for me, a card-carrying member of "the new world" (and you know exactly what i mean) to evoke the glamour of the old world? and what did it mean for my sisters who came before me? their beauty and grandeur moves me; i reflect on what they risked for it. i wanted to honor them last night
thank you
@chrishoran20 for your vision and hustle and for keeping me on best dressed lists—and occasionally worst-dressed lists, which is always cooler! no one does it like you
thank you to
@hairbyorlandopita and
@yadim for sanctifying me from the neck up. i can't believe i get to be coiffed and beat by such absolute mavericks. yadim used
@valentino.beauty ...i hear there are some exciting things going on over at maison valentino in the near future ;)
thank you to
@aarondnewbill and
@meansss at
@imgmodels for keeping me in fashion. i love you
and congratulations to
@condeunited who won the day :)
