Watch: Darren Criss Hits the Red Carpet in a Tulle Skirt, and Gay Twitter Swoons

"Glee" alum Darren Criss joined the ranks of straight male celebs embracing skirts – Brad Pitt and Harry Styles among them – when he made a fashion statement at the CFDA Fashion Awards.

"The actor, 37, showed up to the fashionable event wearing a fuchsia tulle skirt with flower detail and a cropped black tuxedo jacket – and not much else," said People Magazine. "He left his chest and abs on display and posed for photos with designer Christian Siriano, who designed his outfit for the evening."

"We had fun," Siriano told Entertainment Tonight, which posted a video clip of the duo being interviewed about how they had "shut the red carpet down..."

"It's CFDA," Siriano added. "It's fashion. It's celebrating designers and artists and craft – and, yeah, we just wanted to have fun."

"It's beautiful," Criss raved about the fuchsia skirt, which he said made him feel "like an effin' superhero."

"And he's made so many beautiful pieces like this in the past," Criss went on to say of Ciriano's work.

Many on Gay Twitter were in full agreement.

Predictably, there were those who met the look with criticism.

The future of men's fashion? Perhaps; but for others, that future was looking a bit too much like the "been there, done that" past.

But some came preemptively to Criss' defense, anticipating hateful comments from trolls.

Criss, like many handsome male celebs, has sparked his share of online speculation regarding his sexuality. Moreover, his "Glee" role was that of out queer character Blaine Anderson.

Last spring, Criss sought to explain that while he's straight, he's also "culturally queer," in part thanks to his San Francisco upbringing.

"The things in my life that I have tried to emulate, learn from and be inspired by are 100 percent queer as fuck," Criss said during a panel appearance at Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo in April.