Lena Waithe Wore a Pride Cape to the Met Gala, and Twitter’s Loving It
The theme of the 2018 Met Gala is “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination,” and many celebrities took this religious motif literally. There were saint-like headpieces and gilded crosses abound. Even Rihanna showed up in a pope-inspired outfit.
Lena Waithe, however, took this year’s Catholicism theme more metaphorically. Instead of physically dressing like she’s actually going to church, the Master of None writer chose to embody what God means to her. “You talk about church and Catholicism, it’s about—you were made in God’s image…The theme to me is be yourself,” Waithe told Complex magazine on the red carpet this evening.
So, in that respect, she opted for a look that fully represents who she is: a blazer with a long Pride cape sewn outside of it. (Waithe herself is a queer woman and is engaged to her longtime girlfriend, production executive Alana Mayo.)
Check out the powerful look for yourself, below.
The dramatic train on this flag really is everything.
“Don’t mind me, just a queer icon about to twirl into this fancy costume party” — What Waithe thought before hitting the red carpet (in my head, at least).
Naturally, Twitter’s living for the fact Waithe literally put the LGBTQIA+ community on her back and took them to the Met Gala with her. Check out the best responses to her look for yourself, below.
https://twitter.com/TJ_Knight/status/993640191024918529
https://twitter.com/verstigo/status/993640096795590656
https://twitter.com/MsPackyetti/status/993636310043815936
https://twitter.com/thaLWord/status/993640088478322693
.@LenaWaithe showing up to the #MetGala in that rainbow cape like pic.twitter.com/jocvhrqRE4
— Tre'vell Anderson (@TrevellAnderson) May 7, 2018
https://twitter.com/fabuLaja/status/993638731549741063
@LenaWaithe bodied the theme too! I am over here gagging at these #METGALA18 fashion moments. I can’t wait to go one day and fuck it upppppppppppp! pic.twitter.com/4QR4Sig85A
— Mahogany’s Message (@YaGirlSP) May 7, 2018
https://twitter.com/cerzej/status/993640448932507648
“The theme to me is be yourself. You were made in God’s Image.” –@LenaWaithe pic.twitter.com/ZO2SvEq14M
— Complex (@Complex) May 7, 2018
https://twitter.com/moonspaces/status/993631582694117377
Waithe’s Met Gala look builds on the important work she’s done in her career. She wrote a powerful episode about coming out for Master of None, and Waithe thinks it’s imperative to show as many different queer stories on screen as possible. “For people to embrace a queer black girl’s story the way they did says a lot about where we are in society,” Waithe told Glamour in December 2017. “We’re a lot further than we think. But for that reason, we can’t keep telling stories about a single black experience.”
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