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Sam Smith made a giant assertion on the 2023 Brit Awards.
The “Unholy” singer, 30, who got here out as non-binary in Could 2019, turned heads for his or her extravagant and weird silhouette strolling down the purple carpet of the annual awards present held on the O2 Area — only one week after receiving backlash for his or her costume decisions for his or her “I am Not Right here to Make Pals” music video.
The outfit — an all-black latex go well with custom-made by the London-based vogue label Harri — featured excessive pointed shoulders and vast outwardly pointed thighs, which have been each inflated. Smith accessorized the look with shiny gloves and black high-heeled boots, together with a pearl earring on their proper ear and a stud on the left.
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Harri, the designer behind the look, instructed WWD that the latest “hate feedback” on social media in opposition to Smith and their physique performed a task within the outfit alternative.
“Sam was having numerous hate feedback lately after ‘Unholy’ about [their] physique picture,” Harri mentioned. “That is my tackle celebrating [their] pure kind and the great thing about being one’s self. I needed to create a picture which individuals have by no means seen Sam in.”
Of their newest music video, Smith dons a cream corset look full with pearl chains, sparkly gloves and matching nipple covers, in addition to a Vegas-inspired black showgirl outfit with a big feathered headdress, low-cut corseted satin prime and matching black satin skirt with a thigh-high slit.
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Smith lately opened as much as The Sunday Instances about getting over their physique dysmorphia and discovering themself by means of their music.
“I get nearer to who I’m with every album,” Smith mentioned, noting that their fourth studio album Gloria was impressed by the “female spirit in me.”
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“I am happier in my very own pores and skin on Gloria. I really feel liberated, launched from pressures I felt once I was younger,” they mentioned. “My mum says that, as I’ve bought older, I’ve stopped caring what individuals suppose as a lot. She tends to be proper.”
