Jeremy O. Harris Wore a Beautiful Scam Suit on Late-Night TV

When you are called to electrify the masses on late night television, you have to bring the heat or a cold plunge. Jeremy O. Harris, the playwright behind the must-see Broadway production Slave Play, brought both when he appeared on Late Night With Seth Meyers this week, delivering the gospel on “the difficulties of making theatre accessible in this country,” as he wrote on a gorgeous little platform called Instagram, and convinced Meyers to pay for the tickets of fans to see his play.

Now comes the plunge: to pull off this “scam,” as Harris deemed it, he wore a custom outfit from the French couturier Schiaparelli with a sequin jacket and a pool-print suit—a “luxury adaptation of the pool from Daddy,” Harris’s second play, which played Off-Broadway earlier this year. That Schiaparelli’s recently installed creative director is Daniel Roseberry, a downtown hero from New York’s Two Bridges neighborhood and an alum of Thom Browne, brings the scam cycle tantalizingly full cycle.

Man, doesn’t it make you believe in New York that we have celebrity playwrights, like Harris and Annie Baker and Jackie Sibblies Drury? Who said the ’70s were our cultural peak?!

Originally Appeared on GQ