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Makeup artistNikkie de Jagerhonored transgender activist Marsha P. Johnson with her2021 Met Galalook.
De Jager, 27, who is openly trans, paid homage to the late LGTBQ trailblazer with her teal embellished gown and colorful headdress at Monday’s event. She wore a tulle Edwin Oudshoorn Couture dress emblazoned with pink, red and yellow flowers featuring a bow on the bottom reading “Pay it no mind,” Johnson’sresponseto questions she received about her gender.
De Jager accessorized her look with an eye-catching metallic and rainbow flower crown much like the floral hairstyles and accessories Johnson was often photographed wearing.
TheNikkieTutorials YouTube starposted a photo of her Met Gala look onInstagram, where she wrote, “PAY IT NO MIND 🏳️ when I got asked to join the Met Gala(!!!!!) I knew I wanted to pay homage to a trans icon who was at the forefront of the Stonewall Riots.”
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She added, “Marsha P. Johnson paved the way for so many of us, and I hope I made my community proud tonight 🥺 this night has been so incredibly surreal…. I can’t wait to tell you EVERYTHING!!!!!! 💕 WE DID IT GUYS!!!!!!!!”
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De Jager thanked youTube and Derek Blasberg at the end of her post, calling the night “insane” and adding, “I’ll forever be so grateful!”
While Johnson was murdered in 1992 at the age of 46, her legacy lives on. Edwin Oudshoorn, who designed de Jager’s Met Gala look, wrote onInstagram, “We came up with the idea of creating a tribute to the legendary Marsha P. Johnson and the whole looked started with the custom made characteristic flower crown.”
De Jager came out as transgender in a YouTube video in January 2020, telling her followers, “[I’m] finally revealing a part of my life that has made me who I am.”
“When I was younger, I was born in the wrong body which means that I am transgender. Now, so surreal saying this. Filming this video is scary but it feels so liberating and freeing,” de Jager said, adding, “I am NikkieTutorials and I am Nikkie,” she continued. “I am me. We don’t need labels. If we are going to put a label on it, yes, I am transgender. But at the end of the day, I am me. And at the end of the day, you are you.”
The makeup artist received an outpouring of support after coming out, with stars likeAriana Grande,Kim PetrasandAmber Rosesharing their love for de Jager.
source: people.com
