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While more than 108 million people watched Beyoncé’s Super Bowl halftime show on TV, Rubin Singer was watching from the front row at the game with tears in his eyes.
The 34-year-old New Yorker designed Beyoncé’s revealing halftime outfit, a python, iguana and Chantilly lace black leotard, leather-cropped motorcycle jacket and “liquid nylon” miniskirt (made of metal, nylon, silk and plastic).
“Beyoncé took a chance on a young designer, and she knew this was going to change my life,” Singer told The Post minutes after arriving back in New York.
Singer spent two months creating the outfit and was in New Orleans all last week tweaking it.
“She was losing so much weight every day that we kept taking it in and taking it in,” Singer says. “She literally was the incredible shrinking woman, because she was rehearsing vigorously and had nerves on top of it, I’m sure.”
Beyoncé’s outfit alone took more than 200 hours and a team of 14 to make.
After working for Oscar de la Renta, Bill Blass and Kai Milla early in his career, Singer created his own line in 2007. Soon, he was discovered by Beyoncé’s sylists, Ty Hunter and Raquel Smith.
Beyoncé first wore Singer on the UK version of “The X Factor.” But it was his gold, embroidered bodysuit for her 2012 New Year’s Eve performance in Las Vegas that led to the gridiron gig.
“Her stylists came in to talk about New Year’s Eve and they saw my storyboards for fall [2013] and they were like, ‘Would you be willing to present for the Super Bowl?’ and I was like, ‘Are you kidding me? Of course!’ ” he says.
“Every step of the way,” he says of Beyoncé, “she was very involved and very aware.”
Singer, who now lives in Hell’s Kitchen, was born into fashion. He learned to design from his father, Alik Singer, who created costumes for the Bolshoi Ballet in Russia — and now works with him — and his grandfather, Rubin, who designed for Russian political figures. The younger Singer, who was born in Austria and then lived in Paris, moved to New York with his family in the ’80s.
Up next for the rising designer is New York Fashion Week, where Singer will present, by appointment only, the collection that inspired the Beyoncé outfit called “Valkyrie’s Dominion.”
kstorey@nypost.com