‘I have always been a fashion person’: Billy Porter to host Fashion Awards

The actor, who wore a gown to the Oscars in 2019, is set to bring his gender non-conforming style to fashion's starriest night, at London's Royal Albert Hall later this month

Billy Porter, the actor best known for his role as Pray Tell in Ryan Murphy's series Pose, will host this year's Fashion Awards, to take place in London on 29 November.

Porter - who is also a singer, director, writer, composer and playwright - has made a name for himself in fashion, too. The black bustled gown he wore to the Oscars in 2019, the gold wings at the Met Gala and the hat with remote controlled sparkly fringing for the Grammies in 2020 (this quickly became a meme), saw to his status as a style inspiration. Speaking on Zoom, he described his new gig as evidence that he has finally been embraced by the industry. I have been a fashion person for my entire life," he said. To be inside of the fashion conversation for real is a manifestation of what I always dreamed could be possible."