Jeremy O. Harris, one of America's brightest young storytellers, talks about fashion, identity and his Aaliyah-inspired Met Gala outfit.
There's this one outfit I never got out of my head. It was this yellow, sailing bomber jacket thing that she wore to perform in at The Forum . I've always wanted to emulate that look, so when I started working with Tommy Hilfiger , I asked if we could pay homage to that specific look and do a yellow bomber jacket but grand and theatrical.
There are a lot of stories that can be written on my body, as a 6-foot-5 Black man, and one of the stories that was constantly written on it was that I played basketball . So I constantly tried to move myself away from sportswear ... I moved towards the femme; I moved towards dandy style, because I felt that immediately articulated that I was different.
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