Mandatory Credit: Photo by Gina Gayle/AP/Shutterstock (6403917g)
Actor Billy Porter at the Premiere of the film Noel, directed by Chazz Palminteri, at the Regal United Artists Battery Park Cinemas in New York, NY
NOEL PREMIERE, NEW YORK, USA
This coat looks so cozy and vintage.
2006
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Carolyn Contino/BEI/Shutterstock (572270k)
Billy Porter
THE PUBLIC SINGS: A 50TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION, POST PERFORMANCE CAST SUPPER, NEW YORK, AMERICA - 30 JAN 2006
He looks like such a baby face here! (He is, however, 37 years old.)
2008
attends the 11th annual GLAAD Tidings Holiday Concert at the home of Jeanne Pritzker on November 16, 2008 in Bel Air, California.
Billy Porter has a LONG history of draping himself in velvet and/or velour.
2013
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Erik Pendzich/Shutterstock (2346906bp)
Billy Porter
The 79th Annual Drama League Awards, New York, America - 17 May 2013
This look has a Your Distinguished Anthropology Professor appeal.
2013
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Amanda Schwab/Starpix/Shutterstock (5631429br)
Billy Porter
2013 Tony Awards: Meet The Nominees, New York, America - 01 May 2013
This look has a Your Distinguished Musicolog Professor appeal.
2014
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Aurora Rose/Starpix/Shutterstock (5631871h)
Billy Porter
New York Stage and Film Honors Michael Mayer and Rick Miramontez, New York, America - 16 Nov 2014
New York Stage and Film Honors Michael Mayer and Rick Miramontez
This look has a Your Distinguished Statistics Professor appeal.
2015
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Andy Kropa/Invision/AP/Shutterstock (9192705an)
Billy Porter arrives at Gabrielle's Angel Foundation For Cancer Research Angel Ball 2015 at Cipriani Wall Street, in New York
Angel Ball 2015, New York, USA - 19 Oct 2015
Billy also has a history of wearing suits in fabrics that would also make great wallpapers -- a textile dear to my heart.
2016
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Mediapunch/Shutterstock (5705908au)
Billy Porter
Stars In The Alley, New York, America - 03 Jun 2016
Listen, I'm not NOT stalking a skirt very similar to this on Poshmark right now.
2016
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Dave Allocca/Starpix/Shutterstock (5754907s)
Billy Porter
Special Screening and Reception in Celebration of Paramount Pictures 'Florence Foster Jenkins' held at Crosby Street Hotel, New York, USA - 11 Jul 2016
What JOYOUS trousers in which to celebrate FloFoJenks!
2016
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Mediapunch/Shutterstock (7530000f)
Billy Porter
Native Son Awards, Cadillac House, New York, USA - 30 November 2016
This is tremendously good.
2016
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Gregory Pace/Shutterstock (7590166o)
Billy Porter
'Fences' film screening, Arrivals, New York, USA - 19 Dec 2016
These are very groovy pants.
2017
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Kristin Callahan/Ace/Shutterstock (8792110b)
Billy Porter
GLAAD Media Awards, Arrivals, New York, USA - 06 May 2017
The mythical skirt-pant -- skant?? -- in the wild! Perhaps on a man, it's a skirt-kilt? A....skilt? Whatever, he looks cool.
2018
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Kristin Callahan/Ace/Shutterstock (9724205ar)
Billy Porter
VH1 Trailblazer Honors, New York, USA - 21 Jun 2018
This is gorgeous.
2018
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Ryan Miller/Shutterstock (9808116g)
Billy Porter
'Ain't Too Proud: The Life and Times of The Temptations' musical opening, Los Angeles, USA - 25 Aug 2018
I also love this.
2018
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Mark Von Holden/Variety/Shutterstock (9913778ae)
Billy Porter during the New Power of New York Party at the Atlantic Grill, in New York Oct. 3, 2018.
Variety's New Power of New York Party, Arrivals, USA - 03 Oct 2018
SO glam.
2018
Mandatory Credit: Photo by J Leibson/Radarpics for/Shutterstock (9981176ew)
Billy Porter attends the OUT Magazine's OUT100 Celebration Presented by Lexus, held at Quixote Studios
OUT Magazine's OUT100 Celebration Presented by Lexus, Los Angeles, USA - 15 Nov 2018
I am not sure if this totally works but it DOES look like something that you'd see on Krystal Carrington, so there's that.
2018
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Michael Buckner/Variety/Shutterstock (10011541di)
Billy Porter
TrevorLIVE, Arrivals, Los Angeles, USA - 02 Dec 2018
Velour!
2019
Mandatory Credit: Photo by John Salangsang/Variety/Shutterstock (10047577ez)
Billy Porter
AFI Awards Luncheon, Los Angeles, USA - 4 Jan 2019
This whole look is very very groovy.
2019
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP/Shutterstock (10049298lk)
Billy Porter arrives at the 76th annual Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, in Beverly Hills, Calif
76th Annual Golden Globe Awards - Arrivals, Beverly Hills, USA - 06 Jan 2019
OBVIOUSLY we all remember how great this is.
2019
Mandatory Credit: Photo by MediaPunch/Shutterstock (10096852ba)
Billy Porter
Blue Jacket Fashion Show, New York, USA - 07 Feb 2019
And this is superb.
2019
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Kristina Bumphrey/Starpix/Shutterstock (10104133j)
Billy Porter
Michael Kors show, Arrivals, Fall Winter 2019, New York Fashion Week, USA - 13 Feb 2019
Wearing Michael Kors
So is this! (It IS Michael Kors.)
2019
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Broadimage/Shutterstock (10118672c)
Billy Porter
91st Annual Academy Awards, Arrivals, Los Angeles, USA - 24 Feb 2019
Wearing Christian Siriano, Custom
And this Christian Siriano look will go down in history, sincerely, as one of the Oscars' best red carpet moments.
2019 (in The Blonds)
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Michael Buckner/Variety/Shutterstock (10227717wo)
Billy Porter
Costume Institute Benefit celebrating the opening of Camp: Notes on Fashion, Arrivals, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA - 06 May 2019
Wearing The Blonds, Custom, Shoes By Giuseppe Zanotti
I MEAN ALSO THIS!
2019
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Kristina Bumphrey/StarPix/Shutterstock (10237373ab)
Billy Porter
Walt Disney Television Upfronts 2019, Arrivals, New York, USA - 14 May 2019
I love this suit and want if for myself, if I were a person who got to wear pantsuits places, which I am not. (Also, he loves those shoes and wears them often.)
2019
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Stewart Cook/FX/Picturegroup/Shutterstock (10266361ad)
Billy Porter
'Pose' TV show FYC Event, Los Angeles, USA - 01 Jun 2019
Love a good message handbag.
2019
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Anthony Behar/FX/PictureGroup/Shutterstock (10281913e)
Billy Porter
'Pose' TV show season two premiere, Arrivals, Paris Theater, New York, USA - 05 Jun 2019
Billy is a big fan of a train. (Me too!)
2019 in Celestino
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Kristina Bumphrey/StarPix/Shutterstock (10299640gy)
Billy Porter
73rd Annual Tony Awards, Arrivals, Radio City Music Hall, New York, USA - 09 Jun 2019
Wearing Celestino, Custom
This was, if you may recall, the actual curtain from Kinky Boots. Amazing.
2019 in Francis Libiran
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Shutterstock (10321119bi)
Billy Porter
Love Ball III presented by the CFDA and Susanne Bartsch, Arrivals, Gotham Hall, New York, USA - 25 Jun 2019
Wearing Francis Libiran, Custom
This is a burst of sunshine.
2019
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Rob Latour/Deadline/Shutterstock (10357878i)
Billy Porter
'Pose' TV show screening, Arrivals, Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, USA - 09 Aug 2019
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Christopher Polk/Variety/Shutterstock (10405777ij)
Billy Porter
71st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards, Arrivals, Microsoft Theatre, Los Angeles, USA - 22 Sep 2019
Wearing Michael Kors, Custom
This is what he wore when he won the Emmy, which was VERY EXCITING.
2019 in Roksanda
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Richard Young/Shutterstock (10415277z)
Billy Porter in the front row
Roksanda show, Front Row, Spring Summer 2020, London Fashion Week, UK - 16 Sep 2019
Wearing Roksanda Same Outfit as catwalk model *10107659b
I LOVE this photo.
2019 in Thom Browne
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Stephen Lovekin/WWD/Shutterstock (10456522bc)
Billy Porter
A Place at the Table: The Ali Forney Center's Annual Fall Gala, Arrivals, Cipriani Wall Street, New York, USA - 25 Oct 2019
Wearing Thom Browne
Thom Browne is a good match for Billy, I think -- Billy (like Janelle Monae, also a Thom Browne fan) has the innate theatricality to pull him off.
2019
Mandatory Credit: Photo by John Salangsang/Variety/Shutterstock (10460064gu)
Billy Porter
Variety Actors on Actors, Day 1, Los Angeles, USA - 27 Apr 2019
This is so chic.
2019, in Sies Marjan
Mandatory Credit: Photo by People Picture/Foudre/Shutterstock (10469350f)
Billy Porter
GQ Men of the Year Awards, Berlin, Germany - 07 Nov 2019
Wearing Sies Marjan Same Outfit as catwalk model *10311878ab
This coat is VERY chic.
2019 in Thom Browne
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Stewart Cook/Shutterstock (10481435jw)
Billy Porter
47th Annual American Music Awards, Arrivals, Microsoft Theater, Los Angeles, USA - 24 Nov 2019
Wearing Thom Browne same outfit as catwalk model *10311882aw
V low-key, obvs.
2019
Mandatory Credit: Photo by BabiradPicture/Shutterstock (10483336ae)
Billy Porter
International Music Awards, Arrivals, Berlin, Germany - 22 Nov 2019
It seems like we would have gotten to headpieces sooner than this!
2019
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Earl Gibson III/Shutterstock (10493473ba)
Billy Porter
Urban One Honors, Arrivals, MGM National Harbor, Oxen Hill, USA - 05 Dec 2019
The more I work on this post, the more I want these shoes.
2020
Mandatory Credit: Photo by NINA PROMMER/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock (10518587gv)
Billy Porter arrives for the 77th annual Golden Globe Awards ceremony at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, in Beverly Hills, California, USA, 05 January 2020.
Arrivals - 77th Golden Globe Awards, Beverly Hills, USA - 05 Jan 2020
This was so angelic.
2020 in Hogan McLaughlin
Mandatory Credit: Photo by John Salangsang/Shutterstock (10521936cm)
Billy Porter
25th Annual Critics' Choice Awards, Arrivals, Barker Hanger, Los Angeles, USA - 12 Jan 2020
Wearing Hogan McLaughlin
The butterflies are the stars, here.
2020, in Adidas x Ivy Park
Mandatory Credit: Photo by AFF-USA/Shutterstock (10537678af)
Billy Porter
Spotify Best New Artist 2020 Party, Arrivals, The Lot Studios, Los Angeles, USA - 23 Jan 2020
Wearing Adidas x Ivy Park
I feel like this is what DJ Lance Rock is going to wear after he gets a makeover.
2020
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP/Shutterstock (10539781ly)
Billy Porter arrives at the 62nd annual Grammy Awards at the Staples Center, in Los Angeles
62nd Annual Grammy Awards - Arrivals, Los Angeles, USA - 26 Jan 2020
NEVER FORGET THIS HAT. (The fringe opened and closed!)
2020 in Official Rebrand
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Stewart Cook/Variety/Shutterstock (10549506ai)
Billy Porter
13th Annual Essence Black Women in Hollywood Awards Luncheon, Arrivals, Beverly Wilshire, Los Angeles, USA - 06 Feb 2020
Wearing Official Rebrand
It's pretty amazing when you're wearing an outfit that would look as good on Zendaya OR Meryl Streep.
2020
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP/Shutterstock (10552446a)
Billy Porter arrives at the Oscars, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles
92nd Academy Awards - Arrivals, Los Angeles, USA - 09 Feb 2020