Lupita Nyong’o Wears a Daring Mold of Her Body to Tony Awards

Lupita Nyong'o turned heads at the 2023 Tony Awards, where she walked the red carpet wearing a breastplate made from a mold of her own body.

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Explaining the look on Instagram, she wrote that she was "honored, humbled, strengthened and energized" to wear the piece, which was designed from a cast of her body by Pakistani artist and fashion designer Misha Japanwala.

"[Her] work is rooted in the rejection and deconstruction of external shame attached to one’s body," Nyong'o shared. "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 went on to share a message from the designer herself. “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," the designer said. "In reclaiming the word and understanding that the rejection of others’ narrow definitions of shame is one of the most powerful tools for liberation, I’ve come to deeply appreciate and respect what living a life of shamelessness truly means. My craft pertains to documenting our existence in the most truthful way I possibly can—I change nothing about the body and how it looks.I think that act of surrendering and allowing our bodies to simply be, is such a beautiful and powerful thing.”

Not surprisingly, Nyong'o's post was met with a flood of fire emojis.

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