Actor Billy Porter arrived on the 2019 Academy Awards red carpet in a custom tuxedo dress by Christian Siriano that turned heads and made headlines.

The fashion establishment is going gaga for Porter’s velvet, tailored tuxedo ballgown. Harper’s Bazaar wrote “Billy Porter Slays in a Christian Siriano Tuxedo Dress on the Red Carpet,” writing in the subheadline “We. Are. Not. Worthy.” of such an ensemble.

InStyle Magazine boasted “Billy Porter Wore a Dress to the Oscars and the Internet Is Shook” while Vogue declared “A play on masculinity and femininity, the look challenged the rigid Hollywood dress code and was boundary-pushing in all the right ways.”

The look is a tribute to Hector Xtravaganza — who died last year — from New York City’s House of Xtravaganza, founded in the early 1980s as one of the most famous underground ballroom houses.

Porter, best known for his roles on director Ryan Murphy’s hit FX Network show Pose, described the choice to wear a tuxedo gown as one that was meant to push boundaries:

Porter wore the gown to the Vanity Fair afterparty, removing his white ruffled tuxedo shirt and bow tie that he had worn on the red carpet and, instead, throwing on only a glittering women’s necklace.

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John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.