At Brit Awards: Tom Daley Echoes Famous Met Gala Troye Sivan Urinal Shot, but Sam Smith Steals the Show
When the nattily dressed couple Tom Daley and Dustin Lance Black went to the Brit Awards this past weekend, Daley took a moment to reference a famous shot he took at the 2021 Met Gala.
At this past Saturday's event, Daley and Black are seen standing at adjacent urinals, which immediately brought to mind the pic of singer Troye Sivan in a black dress at a urinal that went viral after the Met Gala.
It turned out that the pic of singer Troye Sivan at a urinal in a black dress was taken by Daley. The pic, he later explained to Attitude, that the pic was taken under the instruction of Rihanna.
In the caption, Sivan wrote "@badgalriri told @tomdaley to take this pic of me weeing "🥲
Daley later told Vogue: "My most surreal moment was going to the toilet and peeing next to Troye Sivan, then Rihanna opening the door to the toilet."
At the Brit Awards, it wasn't just Daley and Black making a fashion statement. Singer Sam Smith wore a black, vinyl, inflatable suit that was all about that silhouette.
Unfortunately Daley (or no one) got a shot of Smith using a urinal in this look.
CNN writes that Smith's look came from "HARRI - the emerging label helmed by British Indian designer Harikrishnan Keezhathil Surendran Pillai - Smith's supersized curves resembled a Rorschach test, a balloon animal, or to some, a charred roast chicken. The high-shine latex jumpsuit flared sharply at the singer's thighs, creating an exaggerated curvature that mirrored the dramatically squared shoulders. It was the boldest, and most contentious, look of the night."
CNN adds that surrealist silhouettes have already become a HARRI trademark, with air used to inflate circus-like designs and create a cartoonish, ballooning sense of volume.
"The musician's look took 4 days for Pillai to make, and it was one of his most ambitious garments to date. (In previous collections, the designer had stuck to only inflating the lower body). The undulating shapes were originally inspired by Pillai's dog, Kai. "I started thinking about (it) from my dog's point of view," he said in an interview with the British talk show "Good Morning Britain." "How we saw me from such a small, short angle. (Like a) distorted body image."