Popsugar Fashion Celebrity Fashion Billy Porter Wears Kinky Boots Curtain at Tony Awards 2019 If I Bow Down to Billy Porter's Tony Awards Skirt, I Might Never Get Back Up 10 June 2019 by Sarah Wasilak Image Source: Getty / Taylor Hill Oh OK, this is like no big deal: Billy Porter just fashioned the Kinky Boots Broadway show curtain into a floor-sweeping skirt for the 2019 Tony Awards. The Pose star stole the spotlight in the design, which was finished with pink tulle and made to match a pair of pants embroidered with a uterus in support of women's reproductive rights — and those would've been enough of a statement on their own! But you may still be wondering how the red velvet curtain made its way onto Billy's body for the evening in the first place. When handbag company Scenery Bags purchased it after the April 2019 closing, Billy was made an offer to wear a piece of it in accessory form, having won a Tony for his 1,150 Kinky Boots show run. But Celestino Couture took the look one step further when Billy decided his outfit should be much more dramatic than one cool bag. (FYI: his pants also come from the same material as the skirt!) "I want to flip the question of what it means to be a man. 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," Billy told The New York Times. Read on to see Billy's big moment and zoom in on his accessories — a gemstone ring, bedazzled bag, and hand-painted floral mules that were later swapped out for luxe Gucci loafers, once Billy shed layers from his outfit backstage. Plus, read all the way through to see some BTS shots of Billy getting ready for the event at The Lowell Hotel. Related: You'll Have to Squint to See Billy Porter's Met Gala Outfit Because It's Like Looking at the Sun Billy Porter at the 2019 Tony Awards Image Source: Getty / Taylor Hill 1 / 38 Image Source: Getty / Bruce Glikas 2 / 38 Image Source: Getty / Taylor Hill 3 / 38 Image Source: Getty / Taylor Hill 4 / 38 Image Source: Getty / Taylor Hill 5 / 38 Image Source: Getty / Taylor Hill 6 / 38 Image Source: Getty / Nicholas Hunt 7 / 38 Image Source: Getty / Nicholas Hunt 8 / 38 Image Source: Getty / Dimitrios Kambouris 9 / 38 Image Source: Getty / Dimitrios Kambouris 10 / 38 Image Source: Getty / Dimitrios Kambouris 11 / 38 Image Source: Getty / Dimitrios Kambouris 12 / 38 Image Source: Getty / Dimitrios Kambouris 13 / 38 Image Source: Getty / Kevin Mazur 14 / 38 Image Source: Getty / Kevin Mazur 15 / 38 Image Source: Getty / Bryan Bedder 16 / 38 Image Source: Getty / Jenny Anderson 17 / 38 Image Source: Getty / Jenny Anderson 18 / 38 Image Source: Getty / Jenny Anderson 19 / 38 Image Source: Getty / Theo Wargo 20 / 38 Image Source: Getty / Theo Wargo 21 / 38 Image Source: Getty / Nicholas Hunt 22 / 38 Image Source: Getty / Kevin Mazur 23 / 38 Image Source: Getty / Jenny Anderson 24 / 38 Image Source: Getty / Santiago Felipe 25 / 38 Image Source: Getty / Santiago Felipe 26 / 38 Image Source: Getty / Santiago Felipe 27 / 38 Image Source: Getty / Santiago Felipe 28 / 38 Image Source: Getty / Santiago Felipe 29 / 38 Image Source: Getty / Santiago Felipe 30 / 38 Billy Porter Getting Ready for the 2019 Tony Awards at the Lowell Hotel in NYC Image Source: Getty / Santiago Felipe 31 / 38 Image Source: Getty / Santiago Felipe 32 / 38 Image Source: Getty / Santiago Felipe 33 / 38 Image Source: Getty / Santiago Felipe 34 / 38 Image Source: Getty / Santiago Felipe 35 / 38 Image Source: Getty / Santiago Felipe 36 / 38 Image Source: Getty / Santiago Felipe 37 / 38 Image Source: Getty / Santiago Felipe 38 / 38 Celebrity FashionAward SeasonBilly PorterTony AwardsMen's FashionAll AnglesPoliticsPantsDressesRed Carpet