Identity Is…was created for multi-faceted creator, tastemaker, and theater impresario Jordan Roth to wear at The Metropolitan Museum's Costume  Institute Gala in 2021. A maximalist composition in which identity is a multifaceted creative act, the coat and its sweeping train are crafted from a textile collage of elaborately patterned fabric overworked with labor-intensive machine and handstitched beadwork. Layers of queer imagery and poetic text fragments are key elements in the work of the artist Michael Sylvan Robinson, who says “[they]… name intentions, offer reminders of the fragility of our world, and provoke a call to healing, to action, to remembrance.”