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For any copyright, please send me a message. Billy Porter has become a must-have on every red carpet, no matter which industry is being celebrated. There he is serving at the Emmys, at the Tonys, at the Oscars and the Met Gala. As his stylist Sam Ratelle, who estimated that they’ve worked on 150 red carpet looks together, put it to Vanity Fair, “These days, it seems like every time Billy and I look down, we see red.” But Porter is a hot ticket for the quality of his looks, not just the quantity. The Broadway legend and Pose star has uncanny ability to stand out and speak up with his clothes no matter the occasion. So for the 62nd Grammy Awards at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on Sunday, where Porter will be presenting, Porter and Ratelle planned something big. Making a splash on, say, the Oscars red carpet is easier to do than on the Grammy awards red carpet, a place where pop stars debut their new personas and the word of the night is always “more.” (Though ask Porter if he feels he has to top his past looks and it’s a hard no. “It's not a competition,” he told V.F.. ”we do this for fun. The minute that it's not fun is the minute I stop doing it. It's not about topping, it's not about pressure, it's not about any of that.”) Still this is the man who managed to upstage Lady Gaga at the Met Gala, as eight gold-flecked young men escorted him on a litter into the museum. Leave it to him to get robotics involved. For the Grammys, Porter and Ratelle developed a hat along with designer Scott Studenberg that came complète motorized crystallized curtain. Another Billy—Billie Eillish—inspired the look. Ratelle recounted the moment: “Billy and Billie Eillish had a beautiful moment on the red carpet at the [American Music Awards] where they both gushed over each other's hats. Billie was wearing a Victorian inspired beekeeper bonnet with netting covering her face. After the event, Billy jokingly told me he loved her look but after 30 years of working his way to Hollywood, ‘y'all are gonna see my face!’” Ratelle had clocked Studenberg’s bucket hats with crystal fringe from the Baja East fall 2020 collection, and thought the look would be perfect for the Grammys. The team wanted something “opulent” and “disco glam” that would reflect Porter’s own dance music. The hats were “dramatic and mysterious and make you want to know who's hiding behind them,” Ratelle said. But they needed a way to have their mysterious fringe and the face behind it, too.Advertisement While talking with Studenberg about possibilities (and listening to Diana Ross and Sister Sledge remixes), “the inspiration came to me to construct a hat that would mechanically move the fringe to dramatically reveal that queen's face,” Ratelle said. And that’s what the
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