June could also be Pride Month, but this 12 months it’s also Willie Norris month.

The trans-feminine clothier, who serves as design director of the Outlier streetwear label, fittingly rang in her thirty third birthday in three installments. First, there was a dance party at an area boxing ring; then a visit to Paris for her actual birthday on June 12, and the grand finale Tuesday evening, an intimate dinner at Brooklyn’s Le Crocodile brasserie.

She had loads to make up for, having held off on any celebrations for last 12 months’s birthday. “I wanted to avoid wasting all of it for 33,” she said during cocktail hour. “I’ve desired to be 33 my whole life because Nickelodeon was on Channel 33 after I was a child, and I used to be all the time enthusiastic about what I used to be going to be like.”

Now a queer activist with a big following in Recent York’s LGBTQ art scene, the proven fact that her birthday falls smack in the course of Pride Month is the icing on the cake — though none was served, per her request. “I already had it once this 12 months and it feels sacrilegious to have it twice,” she joked.

As a substitute, friends and shut collaborators like designer Christopher John Rogers, model Aaron Rose Philip, drag queen West Dakota and photographer Hunter Abrams satisfied their sweet tooth with profiteroles and sorbet inside Le Crocodile’s underground “Cellar,” recently revamped with barreled ceilings, vintage crystal chandeliers and mosaic tile floors.

“I assumed it could be a very good opportunity to bring a varied group of those that I’ve known throughout my profession into the identical room and just really thank them,” Norris said. “Thanking them throughout the month of June specifically is pretty precious to me.”

Asked what’s on her wishlist this 12 months, Norris was equally sentimental. “Continued opportunities…I like working. I like creating  and, to me, work begets more work,” she said. 

With upcoming summer plans that include trips to Fire Island in July and a wilderness camping adventure in August, Norris may have a tough time making good on her second birthday wish.

“I need to proceed sleeping as much as I did last 12 months,” she said. “I get an excellent eight hours every night. And I would love to proceed doing that.”