All eyes were on Lupita Nyong’o last night as the Oscar-winning actress arrived on the Tony Awards wearing a custom-made, metallic silver breastplate moulded in the shape of her own chest.
The piece, crafted by Pakistani artist and fashion designer Misha Japanwala, was a “shameless out-of-body experience” according to Nyong’o, who called Japanwala’s artistic process “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.”
