Photo: Carrie Hammer

Maysoon Zayid is many things: A Palestinian-American, a Muslim, a comedian and an actress. Zayid suffers from cerebral palsy and is also considered a disability advocate. Critics have given her worse labels. 

Now, Maysoon is a dress. 

New York City-based designer Carrie Hammer named a black tuxedo dress with a silk collar and button accents after Zayid and unveiled it at New York Fashion Week earlier this month. 

“OMG I’m a dress!” Zayid tweeted on Tuesday, Sept. 22. “You can own your very own Maysoon dress by @carriehammer 🙂 Check it out. Super slimming comfy chic.”  

Zayid modeled the $295 garment that bears her name during fashion week along with 26 other models, whom Hammer calls “role models” instead of runway models.

Casting real, influential people to model her clothes is one way in which Hammer aims to provide for everyday women.

Hammer, who started her career as an advertising sales executive, began designing professional clothing for women after she noticed a lack of well-fitting pieces on the market. 

“I love, love, love the dress that Carrie designed for me,” Zayid told The Mighty. “She took great care to design a dress I could actually wear in real life. It opens and closes in the front which makes it more disability accessible for people with any sort of coordination issues. It’s an amazing piece of clothing and it’s beautiful and it’s sexy.”