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  • get your father's darling before she flies way.

  • Hey, everybody, this is Billy Porter, and this is my third and final fitting for the Met Gala with the blondes.

  • And, uh, we're doing an Egyptian look, as you can see, you know, I just gave them the way we just gave them the idea of Egyptian, and they came up with this way had gone to the Blond Show for Fashion Week.

  • For me, their work truly is the personification of modern day camp in the most highly elevated way.

  • I think you know, when it's executed properly, it's sort of the highest form, fashion and the furthest place that one Congar go in one's imagination.

  • I think this is a factor.

  • Here we go.

  • You know, I thought I could win that Oscar dress, but this is even further.

  • This moment requires wings because the bitch needs to take off and fly.

  • It's Sunday night before the Met gala, and we are rehearsing my entrance.

  • I have several shirtless, gorgeous man carrying me in like Cleopatra.

  • We're gonna do this way, gonna set it off the stand in her way.

  • No, it's fine.

  • I just have to see if I could do it with a night with the weight.

  • Yeah.

  • You know, if I presented this way first, then I opened the wings.

  • I'll see what?

  • The stairs.

  • I can't tell.

  • You know what I could then?

  • You know, do some sort of this is gonna be fierce, Gaul, you know that I'm getting carried in my bunch of hunky man.

  • What better?

  • What better in the world I'd never imagined I'd be able to play my Cleopatra dreams out.

  • It's gonna be amazing.

  • I think you guys are gonna have fun for days, at least afterwards.

  • Talking about it.

  • The bug people here say hello to the bug people.

  • There's a shot.

  • I feel good.

  • Now.

  • I'm excited, you know.

  • Took a white lady pill last night.

  • You got some sleep.

  • What 1,000,000,000 me for?

  • I'm the same person.

  • Cameras on off.

  • I woke up this morning and made breakfast, had breakfast with me and my hubby and then came down here to the hotel.

  • I'm trying to conserve my energy because I know it's gonna be like crazy tonight.

  • Just get my eyes done.

  • I would be very sparkly.

  • It does take a while, but this is the best way to do it.

  • Lithonia Flood.

  • Really, really Right on, Right, right in front of it.

  • Just it just it's it's all running.

  • Joke.

  • That song.

  • You did buy makeup for a kick boot.

  • Thank you.

  • Few 40 minutes.

  • I would do it in 30.

  • 35.

  • She's a lion.

  • The truth, ain't it?

  • Good work takes time.

  • Great work takes even more time.

  • Just don't make me late.

  • Inspiration is Egypt a deity like Isis Godlike that I'm God, like darling and, uh, Oscar Wilde's quote and I want to get it right One should be a work of art Well, where work of art work.

  • And when I thought of Billy Abbott, he's both all of it.

  • So I was like, Yeah, let's do that.

  • All of you, all of that.

  • It never even crossed my mind that I was the first man to wear a dress toe like it.

  • Never It wasn't.

  • I wasn't doing it for that.

  • I wasn't trying to do it to sort of like cause controversy.

  • I was doing it because it's actually authentically who I am and what I wanted to do.

  • Complicated news is that it's 2019 and a man putting on a dress, still causing so much controversy.

  • The good news for me is that it caused so much controversy.

  • You, you know, because no press is bad breath.

  • It's like the greatest.

  • It's the greatest.

  • It's just beyond my wildest dreams.

  • Well, I'm sitting here getting drunk.

  • I'm sitting here getting these Rhinestones put on my face.

  • I've been here since nine.

  • In the morning.

  • Ryan was talking about how you should go.

  • Diana Ross.

  • Diana Ross is mahogany montage, but I've watched the montage and the thing that stuck out to me the most I was, uh, was the Egyptian look, So it was sort of Diana Ross Egyptian moment.

  • That kind of launched it, and then we just expanded from there.

  • This was like a massage machine that way.

  • You know what?

  • It's okay because I know we don't see each other, so I know you look, It doesn't hurt.

  • Keep my wedding ring.

  • So my husband is with me in spirit because he couldn't be there with me this year.

  • But he's coming next.

  • A lot of work up a lot of buildup.

  • Thank you.

  • Your Children think I'm mesmerized.

  • We're on our way to the Met Gala, darling.

  • Yes, I am.

  • Where are those boys?

  • I think they're on the way there from another back up there.

  • Thank you.

  • My friends.

  • Like bank girl.

  • Hey, Heady.

  • I'm good.

  • I just wanted you to see my face.

  • I wanted to say hello.

  • Wish you were here.

  • And I love you.

  • I love you.

  • Where you had a amazing You look like you're right.

  • This is gonna be fabulous.

  • We just drove past all the hotels of Upper East Side people outside.

  • It's barricaded.

  • You can't even cross the street.

  • Fashion is happening.

  • Look pink.

  • She had people carrying her drink as well She should.

  • I got some people carrying me to Lady Gaga.

  • I'll see you there.

  • I'm a lady Gaga finish.

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