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Lena Waithe’s Met Gala Look Made an Actual Statement

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Lena Waithe does the Met Gala red carpet with intention. For last year’s “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination†event, she wore a grand rainbow cape, and for this year’s “An Exploration of Camp,†her outfit is speaking just as loudly. Waithe arrived in a lavender pin-striped suit with “Black drag queens invented camp†written across the back. In an Instagram post of her look, Waithe provided the caption “I came to slay, bitch.†And we are definitely not here to argue with any of that.

Lena Waithe’s Met Gala Look Made an Actual Statement