Lupita Nyong’o celebrated her body at the 2023 Tony Awards. The actress graced the Sunday, June 11, red carpet in a metallic breastplate.
The eye-catching piece was designed by Misha Japanwala and featured a realistic molding of the 40-year-old Black Panther star’s chest.
Nyong’o paired the top with a tailored black blazer and high-waisted trousers with a flared hem. The Mexico City native opened up about the style statement via Instagram, calling the ensemble a “shameless out-of-body experience.” “Honored, humbled, strengthened and energized to don this breastplate created by @MishaJapanwala, which she cast and molded of my body,” Nyong’o captioned a carousel of photos that showed off her look.
She continued: “Misha Japanwala is a Pakistani artist and fashion designer, whose work is rooted in the rejection and deconstruction of external shame attached to one’s body.” “In her artistic process, she creates a realistic and true record of a person’s body as an act of resistance and celebration, and an insistence on being allowed to exist freely in our bodies,” Nyong’o wrote. “[Japanwala] writes, ‘The word beghairat (translation: shameless) has become an anchor in my practice; thousands of people have used it to describe me and the work I create, in an effort to insult and shame me into silence.
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