[upbeat music]
Good evening and welcome to the 2023 Met Gala.
I am Lala Anthony here on the steps
of the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
right in New York City.
Tonight, we honor the life and legacy
of one of the most influential
and prolific designers in the history of fashion,
Karl Lagerfeld and celebrate
the costume institute's newest exhibition,
Karl Lagerfeld, A Line of Beauty,
which opens to the public on Friday, May 5th.
I am joined now by my co-host for the evening,
Saturday Night Live,
Chloe Fineman and writer
and fashion's best friend Derek Blasberg.
I must say you two look absolutely terrific tonight.
Well, thank you Lala,
and it's an honor to be at the Met as always.
And with the two of you guys, Chloe,
I hope we get to meet some of the people
you are impersonating on SNL tonight.
Yes, yes, as do I.
As long as they don't get mad at me.
You should definitely impersonate
as many people to their faces as possible tonight.
Okay, we shall see.
Lala, any advice for.
You that it just goes by so much faster than you think?
So let's make sure we soak it all in and just have fun.
You are looking gorgeous, by the way.
Thank you, thank you.
This is Sergio Hudson, definitely put it together.
He did an incredible, incredible job.
So shout out to Sergio.
And tonight's dress code is an honor of Karl,
so I wanted to make sure my look was on point.
Derek, I know you will tell me the real deal.
Did I hit the mark or what?
Lala you knocked it out of the park.
Karl liked mono chromatic, he liked pearls,
and I'm sure he would've loved you.
Aw, I love you so much, so much, thank you.
And how about me?
Oh, oh, well, of course Chloe, you look perfect.
And I don't know if you guys, where's your purse?
Oh, here with y'all?
Yes, we have our little Choupette.
People are wondering if Choupette would be here tonight.
And you know what?
Here he is.
Here he is.
Them, they are in purse form.
I am in Wiederhoeft tonight, my dear friend,
Jackson Wiederhoeft.
The look is inspired by Karl Lagerfeld
Couture for Chanel in 2004.
And what about your jewelry?
Oh a little Bulgari.
A little Bulgari never killed nobody.
And you look very, very dashing, I must say.
I just wanted to point out I have a camellia pin.
You're gonna see a lot of camellias tonight.
Coco Chanel love this flower and this version was designed
by Karl Lagerfeld and given to me.
It's kind of a disco, techno mesh version
of a camellia.
[person cheering]
Very, very dashing, I must say.
And I'm excited for more camellia.
Hey Lala, who do you have there?
I am joined now by Vogue's global editor director,
Condé Nast Chief Content Officer
and longtime Met Gala co-chair Dame Anna Wintour,
who I love so much.
Anna, thank you so much
for just putting together an extraordinary evening
for all of us.
Thank you, thank you for being here.
And it's very emotional night for me.
I love Karl so much.
And it's just wonderful to see so many people
who are turning out to honor him
and give him the recognition that he so deserves.
Absolutely.
Now what can you tell us about the exhibition
that we're here to celebrate?
So many people are excited to see.
Well, the exhibition really examines themes
that run through Karl's work.
And Andrew Bolton, the curator,
the chief curator at the Costume Institute
told me he looked at 10,000 objects.
Wow.
To whittle it down to just 200.
What?
And then, I mean, each object as Andrew describes them,
is more beautiful than the next.
And you really see for 65 years how Karl
just was so creative, so visionary,
invented so many things, and at the same time,
I think was intrinsically the chiquest designer
that you can ever imagine.
Absolutely.
So with everything going on in so many beautiful moments,
what are you looking forward to the most tonight?
Or how do you even pick one thing?
Well, I always love to see
what everybody is wearing on the carpet,
and I've had been lucky enough to have a sneak preview
of what some of our guests are wearing.
And I'm just so grateful that they've made
such an incredible effort.
And I know how thrilled Karl would've been.
Absolutely.
And I just wanna thank you for helping me
with my dress tonight, and I feel so good.
And thank you so much and I hope you have
an incredible evening.
Have fun yourself, thank you.
Thank you, see you later.
Okay, thank you Anna who was here.
Beautiful, amazing.
And the evening is gonna continue, it's gonna be epic.
[people cheering]
I'll take the glasses off.
[Chole] Wow, Emma Chamberlain has arrived.
[Derek] Emma Chamberlain.
Oh, she's like the internet's little sister.
I love you Emma.
We love you Emma.
She will also be interviewing guests
on a carpet this evening.
You can watch those interviews on Vogue's YouTube channel
and hopefully we will be able to check in
with her later this evening.
[Speaker] We finally get to see.
This year's Met Gala is co-chaired by Michaela Coel,
Penélope Cruz, Roger Federer and Dua Lipa.
And they'll be walking the carpet
alongside more of the most notable figures
from the worlds of film, music,
sports, politics, and of course fashion.
We'll be interviewing them right here and you can help us,
join the conversation by using the #MetGala.
Share your questions and comments on social media.
And we will feature our favorites right here on the show.
We'll also be conducting viewer polls
throughout the evening, so make sure you check those out.
[people chattering]
I am here with Nicole Kidman,
who also just shut down the Met Gala carpet
as you were coming up, I was just like,
you look amazing and this dress looks familiar.
Can you tell us about the dress?
So this dress was one in the Chanel Number Five commercial
that Baz Luhrmann and I did
with Karl who concocted this out of his head.
I have the sketches when he was drawing it.
Wow.
And then we fitted it.
I remember fitting it repeatedly.
And I think my deep, deep sort of love of Karl
came through this time together
because I knew him very, very well.
And so to be able to honor him and wear this dress now
for Chanel and show, I suppose the way
these couture gowns last.
And the exquisiteness
And if you take care of them and love them,
they are timeless.
Absolutely.
Able to wear the same thing 20 years later
and it still holds, because it's so whimsy.
There's whimsy to it.
Right.
And it's so light as a feather
and it's unbelievably comfortable, but it's all handmade.
It's couture, and that's what it should be.
Absolutely gorgeous Nicole, absolutely gorgeous.
And I hear so many people tell stories
about working with Karl and how amazing it was
and how kind and how patient,
what was your experience like working with Karl?
He'd make me laugh.
He was funny.
He was so funny, yeah.
And I also just,
I think right now to celebrate the history of fashion
and the way in which we need the beautiful,
beautiful work that goes into these clothes.
Absolutely.
To be honored and remembered, that's what I love.
Absolutely, I think everyone.
Because it's an art form.
For an incredible evening.
Now we go and have fun.
Now you get to have fun and you look absolutely stunning.
Thank you so much.
And my husband's here.
Hi, how are you Keith?
It's nice to see you.
You're just staring like a proud, proud husband.
I love that.
You guys have an incredible evening.
Thank you so much.
See you.
Thank you Vouge.
All right, bye-bye.
Thank you, see you.
Okay, bye bye.
And we have a great group down here.
None other than the supermodel, Naomi Campbell.
Hello.
And the director of the Met,
the guy in charge tonight, Max Hollein and his wife.
How are you?
Very good.
Naomi, I don't wanna put you on the spot,
but how many Met Galas have you been to?
This is my 16th Met Gala.
Sweet 16.
A sophom*ore in high school.
[people laughing]
And Max, have you ever met Karl Lagerfeld?
I know that's who we're celebrating tonight.
Well, I actually met him when I was 12 years old,
which was of course a childhood memory.
He designed together with my father,
a big theater production in Vienna.
And my fondest memory is they got pulled off the stage
because it was so radical.
And also that kind of gave me an impression
of that when you do something radical,
actually appreciation only happens then afterwards.
Why was it pulled off the stage?
I mean, Karl's science,
his fashion design was ahead of the time.
My father's architecture for that piece.
It was at the Vienna Book Theater,
the main theater place in Vienna.
So it's been interesting.
That's incredible.
That's a good story.
Naomi, you must have known Karl too.
I met Karl Lagerfeld when I was 16 years old and he put me
in every chameleon that he could have
in the span in the studio.
And I used to go out after,
who was the Chanel girl at the time.
And I loved Karl, he treated me like,
how would you wear it?
Are you like saris this year?
Okay, let's do a Chanel sari.
He was always very tapped in,
tapped into each individual person.
And I think tonight, from what I've seen so far,
everyone looks their individual Chanel-esque.
Thank you, that is beautiful.
Thank you guys so much for being here.
We will see you inside.
Thank you so much.
Excited to be here.
Good to meet you, yes, thank you.
Great to see you, yes, thank you.
Thank you guys.
Thank you.
So this is a moment,
Ice Spice is here at the Met Gala.
This is your first one,
you hit the carpet, you shut it down.
Let's talk about how it feels to be at your first Met Gala.
I'm just so grateful, I'm so happy to be here.
I was like really nervous like approaching the carpet.
And once I heard everybody screaming,
I was like, I felt better.
You was like, I'm okay.
Tell us about your look 'cause you look so good.
Thank you, this is Balmain, super last minute.
But we did it.
You did it, you did it.
You did it, okay.
Okay, everybody see that?
You look stunning.
So what are you expecting from your first Met Gala?
Like what are you looking forward to?
What are you excited about?
Some fire pictures, hopefully.
And the fact that you got
the camera right there ready to go.
I'm obsessed with her.
We gonna go in there.
We're gonna have fun, we gonna party.
We have a good time.
Thank you, you look like amazing.
You too, baby.
I can't wait to see you inside.
Okay.
All right, Ice Spice everybody.
Okay, I'll see you inside okay.
All right baby.
[gentle music]
As everyone knows,
this year's Met Gala celebrates the opening
of the Costume Institute's newest exhibition,
Karl Lagerfeld, A Line of Beauty.
It looks back at the designer's career and process.
Across seven decades,
Karl put a stamp on some of Europe's
most celebrated fashion houses, Balmain, Patou
Chloe, Fendi and of course Chanel.
Chanel.
Chanel, Channel.
He also launched his own label in 1984,
and was the first designer to work with H&M,
which ushered in an entire new age
of the designer collaboration, and that was in 2004.
Yes, and I had a coveted H&M item.
You heard it here.
Karl is probably the most famous designer
since Coca Chanel herself and has left an indelible mark
on the history of fashion.
Chloe and I checked it out this morning.
And I gotta say that exhibit is fascinating.
It is more than fascinating, it's stunning.
It will make you cry and take your breath away.
In fact, let's take a look inside right now.
[gentle music]
Karl would often say he was four people.
That he was one person at Chanel, one person at Fendi,
one person at his own label, and one person at Chloe.
And to an extent that's true, I think that Fendi,
it was more of his modernist tendencies.
Chloe, he's more romantic,
that Karl Lagerfeld is more minimalist.
And I suppose that Chanel more of his historicist
and post-modernist sensibilities.
But I think that what the show I hope shows
is that themes transcended all of those houses
and he would revisit themes again and again.
And there's one particular silhouette
that he would return to again and again and again,
which we call the silhouette,
which was a very broad shoulder,
a nipped in waist and wider hips.
And I think the airs of the body
that he was obsessed with were the shoulders.
And also just at the top of the ribcage,
he always wanted to make it as narrow as possible,
which meant a high armhole.
And I think that was partly to do with youthfulness.
I think he felt that having this very narrow ribcage
gave him a sort of sense of youthfulness.
[people chattering]
I had a good time.
All right, I am joined now
by one of this evening's co-chair.
The utterly fabulous, gorgeous, I mean, you shut it down.
Michaela Coel is here with me.
Now I'm gonna go out there and say,
this is one of my favorite looks of the night, for sure.
Thank you. I'm gonna say you look absolutely stunning.
I love you, you look stunning.
Tell us about this look, like you guys have to see this.
Tell us about this.
Am wearing and we can see the homages to Karl here
in the chain and the lips
and the clutching of the pearls.
Wow.
It's a collaboration
between my stylist Georgia and Daniel.
I'm just like a total tourist in this industry.
I'm here to serve
and I'm here to honor their creative vision.
I wanted to have a lot of gold and he created this
like second skin.
I just love this.
There's 130,000 crystals.
130,000 crystals guys.
26,000 Mixed stones,
and over 3,800 hours of work to make this dress.
Wow, that has to be an honor to wear something.
This is a work of art.
This is an absolute work of art.
Now Michaela, you were on the cover of Vogue last November.
So now you're here at the Met Gala.
So what was it like preparing for tonight?
Oh, you know what, I felt a strange sense of peace
because yesterday I was at the pre-dinner
and Anna said something, I'd been wondering,
like why was I asked to co chair?
You know, I couldn't help
but have the question in the back of my mind to be honest.
And she said, what I like about you
is that you are unafraid to be yourself.
And Karl, her dear friend, fashion icon,
she felt his journey was to try and learn
to be unafraid of being himself.
[Interviewer] Wow.
And so she felt like he would like that about me.
And suddenly I just felt very much at ease about being here.
I'm just out here being myself.
And I appreciate Anna for appreciating that
and giving me such lovely opportunities really.
Yes amazing.
And you and I haven't met before and I was so excited
to meet you tonight.
So thank you for coming over and chatting
and I hope you have an incredible evening.
My pleasure, I like you.
You got great energy.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Take care.
Tell her in her ear.
Careful.
[gentle music]
All right.
So I am here with someone who needs no introduction.
The beautiful Gisele, how are you?
I'm good, how are you?
You look absolutely amazing.
So you've worked with Karl numerous times
over Chanel campaigns over the years.
So do you have a favorite, is it so hard to choose?
You know, it's hard to choose.
I just like love the memories with him
and just the times together.
And he was a gentleman and a wonderful man,
always so kind, and yeah, I mean,
maybe one time we were shooting
the in the streets of Paris at night, like at midnight.
And I had no shoes, bare feet.
The whole campaign of Chanel with bare feet around town.
That was pretty funny.
I mean, people were like,
what are you doing bare feet around Paris?
It's so dirty.
I'm like, I'm just doing Chanel walking around bare feet.
But it was fun, he was a lovely man.
So I'm happy to be here to honor him.
Absolutely,
and when was the last time you worked with Karl?
The last time, it was, I'm trying to think,
Chanel Number Five.
There was a Chanel Number Five party in New York.
And I think that was, no, no, no, it was in Cuba.
We were in Cuba together.
Beautiful place.
Beautiful, and he was doing a show
and I was doing Chanel Number Five at a time.
And he invited me to go and yeah,
I think that was the last time I saw him in Cuba.
Absolutely, now tell us about your look.
Stunning, stunning, stunning.
So this dress, I show you.
It's so gorgeous.
Is vintage Chanel, I wore this dress, I think,
no, 2006 or 2007.
In an editorial with him, I wore the same dress.
So when I was picking a dress, I was like, which dress?
That is going to be the dress, and I thought.
This is one.
This is the one.
Well you made a great choice.
Thank you, I appreciate it.
Thank you so much for stopping by.
And I hope you have an incredible evening
and you look fabulous.
Thank you so much.
Thank you, thank you, thank you, see you.
Bye guys, take care.
Like right now, we are joined here
by one of my favorite people in the world,
Keke Palmer and the brilliant Sergio Hudson.
Hello.
I assume that Sergio Hudson
designed this incredible en ensemble we have tonight.
Oh my god, can we see the train?
Oh my gosh, well this is a gorgeous dress,
he can explain as well.
But obviously, I mean, you wanna go and do your thing.
I'm like, I was gonna explain it for you.
Okay, well when I saw Keke,
I saw, Hollywood royalty, Black Hollywood royalty.
So I immediately thought about Josephine Baker
in her heyday.
And this was around the same time of like late fifties,
early sixties when Karl was at.
So I wanted to give like a nod to that era
with the silhouette.
And then of course my favorite era of Chanel
with Karl is the early nineties.
So we really wanted to give a nod to that with the pastels
and with the styling and all of that.
So it's just fun and visiting a lot of different eras.
Yes, it is be breathtaking, I have to say.
It's like a whole fashioned history lesson.
You got got fifties, you've got 90.
A little something for everybody.
Now you hosted last year.
Yes.
Do you have any tips for us goofs.
Literally just be goofy 'cause that's me, I have fun.
Obviously this event is incredible.
It can be overwhelming at times.
There's so much fashion and beauty around you.
So I think, I mean, you're amazing at this.
Just have fun, you make it easy for me.
And you made it easy for me.
I can have fun with Chloe.
Yes.
Well, you guys have fun tonight too.
Thank you.
Thank you for coming.
Enjoy.
[people cheering]
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head over to vogue.com where you can watch exclusive
behind the scenes videos and vote
on your favorite looks throughout the night.
Please just do that everybody.
[gentle music]
All right, so I am joined now
by the one and the only Dua Lipa is here with me.
Now, this is your second Met Gala, correct?
This is my second Met Gala yes.
All right, so talk to me,
what is the difference between just attending
and co-chairing this year?
'Cause that is a huge responsibility.
It's a big responsibility and a big honor.
And I feel very lucky that Anna asked me
to do this to Anna Call tonight and his legacy.
And I mean,
we've got some work to do inside, but it's such an exciting,
but it's gonna be such an exciting,
amazing experience and I'm really,
really looking forward to it.
I would love for you to tell me about your look
and this necklace.
Like, this is like, can we Zoom in on that?
This is crazy.
And what waist?
What waist, what waist?
Tell me about the look.
So this dress is a very special dress.
It's a 1992 full bride dress, Chanel by Karl.
Of course, and it's been on my mood boards forever.
And when the opportunity came,
I was just like, is there any way I can find the dress?
And the at Chanel was very kind
and allowed me to borrow it for tonight.
That is amazing.
It's a big dream come true for me.
Can we talk about the necklace?
And the necklace, this little thing.
Oh my goodness.
This is a very special Tiffany necklace.
It hasn't been seen before,
so I feel excited to get to showcase it here today.
And yeah, they pulled it out the vault for me.
It's so gorgeous, I'm not usually speechless,
but I'm sitting here like.
Wow, well, I hope you have an incredible evening
and just enjoy all the moments.
You look incredible.
Thank you so much.
Thank you so much Dua Lipa.
Thank you, you have a great evening.
Thank you, and you.
All right, of course.
[upbeat music]
All right, so I am here
with supermodel extraordinaire and I like to call her
the Met Gala show stopper.
Shut the carpet down 'cause you know how we do,
Anok is in the building, she's here with me.
So what's going on?
I made it up the stairs.
You made up the stairs.
First, first, first, first, first.
You guys have to see this like this.
This is different, this is that next level right here.
It's tight girl.
Tell me who you wearing.
I'm wearing, and we were inspired
by the 1993 Chanel Couture show,
the look that Cindy was wearing.
Wow just amazing.
And you are currently on the cover of Vogue right now.
Let's talk about that.
I'm on the cover of Vogue.
That's like the biggest thing in the world.
May issue.
Major, major, major.
I'm on the cover of Vogue.
We shot it in Paris on the Grand,
inside the, we like took it over for a little bit,
but it was an amazing experience
and I'm just blessed to be here, girl.
You look gorgeous tonight, it's gonna be fun.
What are you looking forward to the most this evening?
I'm looking forward to seeing everybody's outfits
to be honest.
I told you up here I can see everything.
I see everything from up here, I can see it all.
It's gonna be an incredible evening.
We're gonna have fun.
We're gonna dance, we're gonna do all of that.
So I will see you inside.
But thank you for stopping by.
Love you sis.
All right.
Thank you.
See you inside okay.
Oh, we're up.
We're up, and Chloe we got the coach crew.
Wow.
Designer Stuart Vevers.
Hi Dylan, I'm sorry.
And this is Gabriela, how are you guys?
Amazing.
We're stoked, we had such a party on the way here.
Brittany, karaoke.
Get this mic away from me.
Well I have to ask about these little purses.
I'm blown away.
Yes, they are so gorgeous.
Do you wanna?
These are super, super special.
These are a part of Coachtopia,
which is a circular design concept
that Stuart has come up with.
And they have elements of recycled pieces
of material from the Met.
Literally the coach team went through the trash
of the museum, took plastic water bottles tickets,
mapped everything in the menu.
Aluminum foil.
Transformed into some incredible both on the gowns
and the bags.
The trash, like the actual garbage?
Yes, inside the Met, outside.
Near the food.
You know, some people say one man's trash
is another man's treasure.
One man's trash is another woman's Met Gala look.
These are like ticket stubs and the maps from the Met.
So this year we wanted to do something completely different
and it was about creating something beautiful,
creating gowns from waste.
And I see a lot of monochromatic.
I assume that's a nod to Mr. Lagerfeld.
Indeed, yes.
That's our biggest nod.
I mean, of course the innovation
that he explored in materials
inspired our approach, but this was the most obvious nod.
Amazing, well thank you guys so much.
We can't wait to see you inside.
See you inside at the bar.
Maybe, drinks, drinks, a little Britney singing.
Have a great night guys.
Thank you guys.
Thank you.
[gentle music]
This year's exhibition honors the life and legacy
of visionary designer Karl Lagerfeld.
Let's take a look.
[upbeat music]
I am thrilled to introduce everyone
to the one and only Michael Kors.
Hello everyone.
And his date for the evening, Emily Blunt.
How are you guys?
We're good.
We're great.
Now how are you feeling?
Are you one stomach flu away from your goal weight?
I wish I was.
I was telling Michael last night I ate a pizza,
almost forget, 'cause I thought, well,
I'm like covered up so I'll be all right.
And then I tried to put my skinny pants on and it was.
Tell us about this look.
It's looking pretty skinny pant to me.
The man responsible for this.
Well, I think it was all about dichotomy tonight.
I think Karl loved romantic,
but he also loved something a little edgy and nasty.
That's me, right?
Isn't that Emily Blunt, that says it all right.
She's romantic and nasty.
No, and I just love the idea of throwing it off
with the overskirt with the really narrow
skinny cigarette trousers.
And then of course it's the night for flowers.
I mean, absolutely and white shirts.
I know.
And white shirts and the play.
Signature white shirt, but like a romantic version of it.
Nasty and romantic.
Nasty and romantic.
Michael, I'm sure you knew Karl Lagerfeld.
I did indeed.
The past must have crashed.
Absolutely, absolutely.
Whenever I have a day where I think to myself,
I have too much to do today, I'm too busy.
What do I have to do next?
I always kind of remember Karl,
who was just this machine of creativity, energy, humor,
all of it together and, and stayed curious.
Yeah.
Curiosity is the coolest thing in the world.
Definitely.
Definitely, do you have a favorite memory of Karl?
Oh my God, yes.
Once he actually said to me, he said, you're always so tan.
Why are you always so tan?
And I said.
Look at us next to each.
Look at us next to each other.
Like a ghost.
Well, he'd said, why are you always so tan?
I said, well, the minute I have a day off,
I run to the sun.
Do you?
I always do, and he looked at me and he said,
obviously I don't.
So I was like, okay, I got that.
But I mean, he said, you're always tan.
He had such a great wit
and really and such charm.
And he was just singular.
He was very like you Michael Kors always wore sunglasses.
Shades, shades,
a lot of black and white, boots, boots.
Zingy quips.
Yes Derek, you're getting it.
Chloe and I saw the exhibit this morning
and you guys are gonna love it.
So thank you so much for popping in.
We can't wait, we can't wait.
Great to see you guys.
Great to see you.
Now I want a pizza.
[Michael] We all want a pizza.
Okay.
[upbeat music]
So I am joined now by the fabulous, the beautiful,
the gorgeous Penélope Cruz is here with me.
One of the co-chairs of tonight's event.
Now Penelope, I know that you knew Karl personally
and he dressed you often over the years
and you attended so many of his shows.
What does it mean to you to be here tonight
and be a co-chair of the evening?
A huge honor, I met Karl in 1999.
I am probably one of the biggest fans
of Chanel and Karl in this world.
I know a lot about every single collection he ever did.
So when he offered me to become an ambassador
for the house and start doing campaigns for him,
that sometimes he was photographing.
Like we started to spend more time together
and became good friends.
And I loved him so much, he was really special.
So special, now, what is your favorite look
that Karl ever created for you?
Wow.
There was a blue couture dress
that he changed that he transformed for me.
And then he would do the drawings and put my face.
And I think one of those times I watched him
drawing me with the dress.
And that was like a really specific like dream come true.
I don't have pictures of that moment,
but it's like recorded here in my soul forever
because he is such a genius.
The amount of hard work that I respect him for that,
obviously he was like a genius mind,
but also very, very generous and very hard, hard worker.
And everybody that knew him loved him.
Loved him, loved him.
He treated everyone really, really kindly.
I'm so glad tonight is all about him.
Everyone is so honored to be here.
So before I let you go, tell me about your look tonight,
'cause you just shut down the whole carpet.
I saw you from up here, I was like, wow, wow, wow.
Thank you, so this is Chanel Couture, 1988.
Wow.
Spring, summer.
And when they told me we're gonna redo one
from the pottery morning, like whichever one you look,
whichever one you choose.
And that was not easy to choose.
I was like one month going back and forth
studying every single collection
that he ever did for Chanel.
But I really fell in love with this.
You made a perfect choice and you look gorgeous.
Thank you, you too, thank you so much.
Talking and I hope you have an incredible evening.
Thank you.
Thank you Penélope, all right.
[gentle music]
I am here with a talented, fabulous,
gorgeous Gwendoline Christie,
we've been having our own little party over here.
We've been having so much fun.
I've been enjoying it.
You gave me some advice I wish I'd had
at the bottom of the stairs.
I'm gonna be desperately trying to employ it
through the rest of the evening.
That's our secret.
We don't tell everybody that.
Yeah, no one.
Now Gwendoline, you are such a student and fan of fashion.
So what do you think of when you think of Karl?
Karl Lagerfeld was and is rightfully an icon.
He was a renaissance man.
He had such an interest not only in the craft of design,
which was his career,
but indeed of all elements of artistry,
literature, art, history.
He was such an intellectual.
He was interested in literature,
he was interested in philosophy.
And he took the rigor of discipline that he applied
to his craft into all areas of intellectual
and emotional acumen.
And I just think he was an astounding designer.
And that's why he has endured for so long.
And I feel very, very lucky
to be here tonight celebrating him.
Absolutely.
And that's why we're all honoring him tonight
at such an iconic place, what a great moment.
So tell us about your look, you look gorgeous.
Thank you so much.
I'm lucky enough to be wearing Fendi couture,
designed by the incredible Kim Jones.
I love Kim Jones.
I love Kim Jones.
And Kim and I have been friends since I was 19 years old.
So it is an enduring friendship.
But again, what I love about Kim
is that he's so dedicated to his craft.
He definitely is.
He's always spontaneous
and shows such innovation in what he does,
but he's also working endlessly
on developing an exquisite technique
and discipline alongside the flamboyant nature
of his imagination.
And he's great.
Absolutely.
Absolutely, absolutely.
Well, thank you so much and I hope you have
an incredible evening and I enjoyed our talk so much.
I loved it so much darling.
See you inside.
Enjoy the night.
Bye darling, bye.
Thank you.
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We have the honor and pleasure
of being joined now by Tommy and Dee Hilfiger.
You guys look incredible.
Thank you.
Tommy, I love this look,
can I be so bold as to observe
that this is inspired by Karl Lagerfeld?
Inspired by Karl, this is vintage Chanel fabric.
But the shirt was given to me by Karl as a gift.
[Derek] Karl, himself, the man, the legend.
A gift.
And I'm not sure how he was able to get dressed
in an I outfit like this every day,
but certainly had a valet because it's a shirt
that just buttons in the back, with a separate collar.
Was this the first time Dee helped zip you up tonight?
I did not help him get into it.
I would've no idea what to do,
we had a whole team that helped us get put together tonight.
It took a small village.
We had my Tommy Hilfiger team take inspiration from Chanel
and Karl Lagerfeld and develop Dee's gown and her look.
I love this.
This was added.
You have to do something a little different
for the Met Gala.
Tommy, I'm sure you crossed paths
with Karl a couple times.
Do you have any favorite Lagerfeld memories?
I do, I asked Karl once
how he became so successful with Chanel
and he said it was very easy.
He went back to her archive and took everything
that was from her favorite collections
and made them relevant for today.
And that was very inspirational.
But we became partners with him
when we bought the Karl Lagerfeld brand in 2004.
So we became very close.
Chloe and I went and had a look
at the exhibition today and it's pretty incredible.
We haven't seen it yet.
I think it'll be great.
You guys are going to love it.
Thank you so much.
Thank you so much for stopping by.
Nice to see you.
Lovely.
[Derek] See you at the bar.
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All right, so I'm here with Sydney Sweeney.
Hi.
You look absolutely stunning.
Thank you so much, thank you.
We're just talking about how just crazy this carpet is
and all the fabulous that comes along with this.
Tell us about your look tonight.
I'm wearing Miu Miu.
Fits like a glove.
Thank you, it feels like a glove.
[person laughing]
You feel good though?
I do.
And you look so, so good.
I know currently you're filming season three of Euphoria,
We haven't we haven't started yet.
But I'm very excited 'cause I miss all the girls
and I think Maude is here tonight,
so I can't wait to see her.
Okay, so you haven't started yet, but it's coming.
It's coming, it's coming.
So we're all looking forward to that.
I don't think anyone's looking forward to it
more than my son,
but we're all really, really looking forward.
Thank you.
So what does a night like tonight mean to you,
especially honoring such an icon such as Karl?
I mean, it's such a beautiful evening
seeing everyone just appreciate
and honor such incredible looks.
People look absolutely stunning
and it's just an honor and a privilege to be here.
Absolutely.
And is there anyone you're looking forward
to seeing tonight?
We were just talking about everybody.
Honestly, I'm just excited
to just meet new people and have a really good night.
Absolutely, well, I hope you have an incredible night.
Thank you, you too.
See you inside and have so much fun.
Thank you.
All right, of course.
[Sydney] Thank you guys.
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Get Ready fashion fans,
we have two of the most fashionable people here tonight.
Glenn Close and the designer,
who's responsible for this incredible creation, hi guys.
Really have to see this train, it's unbelievable.
Yes, so elegant.
So elegant, now Glenn, I'm a huge fan.
Two of your most famous films,
Dangerous Liaison and Fatal Attraction,
have recently been adapted to television shows.
Have you watched either of them?
No.
[person laughing]
Isn't that terrible?
You're a busy woman.
People wonder and I mean, frankly,
I haven't had time.
I've been here doing a lot of things
while Fatal Attraction has started.
I also have a very personal relationship to that material,
so I'm a little bit nervous to watch it.
But, I think I will
because I wanna know what they did
and how they told the story.
Danger Liaisons was such an incredible film
because of all the costumes.
Yes.
How is that as an actress to use style as a character?
It's everything, it's everything.
I have kept all my costumes.
I have a costume collection of over 800 pieces
that is in the Indiana University
because I could not say goodbye to them.
They are such a part of my career.
And it helps you build a character
and to see Arden
and be with Arden and building this
and seeing what he was creating.
Yes, they said, what character are you doing?
And I'm thinking maybe a kinder Madame.
A nicer one.
And you're my young lover.
Exactly, exactly.
Young lover, tell us about.
The young lover, young lover, do tell.
Well, it's an homage to Karl
where the amazing body of work
that Karl Lagerfeld created, the dress,
the starting point was actually
from his first Chanel Couture collection.
And then the Cape actually inspired by the finale
look from Chanel fall 1999 that Devon Aoki wore.
And then of course,
the collar and the cuffs are an homage to Karl themselves.
So there you you.
Tre and tre French and tre Karl.
Thank you.
We can't wait to see you guys inside
and it was lovely seeing you at the exhibit today.
Clear a path.
We have to clear a path.
Shucks.
Hey, how are you?
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Here with Margot Robbie.
And when I say the world is so thirsty for your new Barbie,
no, no, no.
It's like, it's a sensation.
It's going crazy.
Everyone wants to put their picture
with a Barbie logo in the background.
Were you surprised at all by the intensity
and excitement around this?
Yeah, I have to say I was,
I knew it was gonna be exciting for everyone.
I didn't really realize
the kind of energy it would have behind it.
And we're still, we come out July 21st,
so it's still a little while away.
I'm amazed everyone's this excited already.
Everyone is so excited.
We still have so much more to show you.
Can't wait, can't wait.
Now Margot, tell us about your look tonight.
I'm wearing Chanel, this is actually.
Gorgeous.
Yeah, this dress was worn by Cindy Crawford in 1993.
Oh wow.
They remade it for me.
And it's obviously a Karl design
and I feel really great in it actually.
And you look absolutely stunning.
Thank you.
So Margot, what does a night like tonight
mean to you honoring such an icon
and a legend like Karl Lagerfeld?
It's incredible,
obviously the Met's always an exciting night,
but I had the great privilege of getting to know Karl
to an extent.
I was the last Chanel ambassador that he picked actually.
Yeah.
What an honor.
It is an honor.
And I just, I'm thrilled that they're honoring him tonight
because he is, he was exceptional.
Absolutely, well, I'm so glad you came to say hi.
Thank you, I hope you have the most fabulous evening.
You look incredible.
Can I just say, you look incredible.
Like I said, I was already looking
at pictures of you when I was in the car,
like, she looks amazing.
Thank you so much.
I'll see you inside and have a great evening.
Thank you.
Barbie movie coming soon, everybody.
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Karl Lagerfeld put on some pretty memorable fashion shows
during his decades at Chanel.
Which of his Chanel runway designs is your favorite?
2014 Supermarket, 2008's Carousel,
2012's underwater world or 2019's pool party.
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Are you feeling nervous, overwhelmed, excited?
Where is your head at?
I was really excited
until I got off my car like two minutes ago.
That's what happens to me.
I'm like, I think I'm fine.
I think I'm cool, and then I get out and I'm like, whoa,
this is a lot.
So you're about to walk on the carpet.
What do you think happens after that?
What do you think happens when you get inside?
That's a really good question
because I see people wearing these crazy dresses.
I'm so curious to see how they sit down.
Right.
I love this because this is so, this is so effortless
and gorgeous and simple.
I can sit down.
Who is this?
I'm wearing Chanel from the nineties runway.
I'm so lucky to have the Chanel team recreated this look
from the nineties, the one that Karl did.
So I'm just like so happy.
I mean, congratulations.
Thank you.
You look beautiful, this is amazing.
Thank you.
I mean, I'll tell you this, everyone's.
[people laughing]
You are gonna have the best time in there.
Thank you.
Do you have like one thing that's like a mystery?
Like what's like the biggest mystery to you?
About the Met Gala.
Of all the Met Gala.
Like what's the one thing that you're like,
I just can't wait to figure out?
I don't know, that was a bad question.
I would say literally everything
because it's my first.
Don't know it's your first one.
Totally.
But Rosie, she was here last year and she told me,
just have fun, so that's the plan for today.
I'm gonna go have fun.
You're gonna have so much fun.
And I'll see you in there.
I'm so happy to meet you finally.
I can't even express how amazing you look
and how amazing you just are.
Thank you.
We'll hang out in there.
Yeah, we'll see you.
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Hi Elle Fanning.
Hello.
My goodness, you look like a dream and a vision.
Tell us about this look.
Thank you, well technically,
I am at the Cartier table tonight.
Yes, this, I'm wearing a 1955 a Grand Duke Cafe
Coffee Bee necklace, which is special.
It's this one that Grace Kelly wore in the Royal Portrait.
I don't think the exact, but it's from that time.
Let's say it's the exact,
you and Grace Kelly is everything.
And then Vivian Westwood designed my outfit, Andreas.
And it's based on, I met Karl
when I was 13 and Karl,
my first fashion show ever was 2011 fall
Chanel Haute Couture.
And after the show, he selected me to be someone
to be in the Little Black Jacket book.
And from that book,
he kind of styled everyone
in the way that he kind of saw them and wanted to see them.
And I was 13 and young and I had a little white dress on
and he kept my dress on and all he put on me
was a daisy crown.
And so I'm like, this is how Karl wants me to look.
And here it is.
Fresh as a daisy.
Bridal, like Chanel bride.
Come on.
Nothing better, right?
Yes, yes.
Wow.
We talked about so much royalty, Grace Kelly,
the Queen, Vivian Westwood.
We have to talk about The Great,
which premieres on May 12th.
What can you tell us about truly one of my favorite shows?
Oh my gosh, it's only in like couple weeks,
a week and a half or so.
11 days.
Oh great, that's right.
Yeah, May 1st, doing math on the carpet.
I'm so excited, it's season three
and it's my favorite season yet.
It's like, there's a lot of spoilers.
There's huge twists.
I want it to come out so I can just talk about what happens.
But I love this show so much and it's so much fun to do
and I can't wait for everyone to see it.
Yes.
Well, you look beautiful tonight.
Well, you are a vision
and I can't wait to find you for a little drink.
What are you gonna do with these flowers like later?
Could you leave those?
I'm gonna throw, catch them.
[person laughing]
Do it, and you'll propose, right?
There you go.
[gentle music]
So the family has joined me up here.
Now I know you guys were at the bottom of the carpet,
but it was important for you to stop here, Keke and Sergio,
who designed both of our dresses tonight.
So it was important that we linked up,
the family had to link up.
Now what I did say was,
if my body could look like this after having a baby,
that somebody out there might have a chance.
Somebody might have a chance.
You look gorgeous.
Sergio, I'm so grateful for you
designing these amazing dresses for the both of us.
Keke, let me ask you,
what are you looking forward to the most here tonight?
Well, it was you because I had to make sure
that Sergio didn't like make you up stage me.
But we both look fabulous.
I'm just here to see everybody.
I mean, this is gonna be a fun night.
I didn't go to the last one,
so this is my second time
and so it's good to be back
and just see what it's giving honey.
How's the baby?
Baby is good, he at home, miss mama.
It gets hard when you gotta leave.
He was with us all day.
He all right.
We gonna do some parties afterwards,
we're gonna be good.
Exactly, that's what he say.
He said we gotta link up with you after.
So to figure out what we going.
All right, so we gonna do something.
Well, I will see you guys later
and thanks for stopping by.
Love you and thank you so much for everything.
Good seeing you always, love ya.
[gentle music]
All right, so here with one of my faves for sure.
Usher is officially in the building,
fresh off the stage in Vegas,
your amazing residency that everyone is talking about.
Talk to me about that Usher.
How are you able to just outdo yourself time
and time and time again?
Well, I mean, the fans deciding to come see me
in Vegas is part of it.
The other half is an amazing catalog of songs.
And then the other side is just really enjoying myself
in Vegas and doing things that I've always wanted to do.
Absolutely, now tonight we are honoring Karl Lagerfeld.
It's a line of Beauty.
Talk to me about your look tonight.
Well, first and foremost, designer Bianca Saunders.
Yes.
I put this amazing ensemble together for myself and her.
I love that, and you look stunning and gorgeous.
What an incredible suit you put together for Usher tonight.
You look great.
Yeah, thank you very much.
The idea was to honor,
but also to still have a little individuality
in it, you know?
And you brought your swag to it for sure.
Noticed, baby.
Exactly, you brought your swag to it for sure.
Tonight's gonna be incredible.
We're gonna have a lot of fun.
I'm glad you came over to say hi.
I'll see you guys inside, okay.
I'll see you then.
All right, have a great evening.
See you later, all right, for sure.
[gentle music]
We are joined now by Vera Wang and Lilly Collins
with these incredible trains.
You can scroll down.
You gotta do some clever positioning.
Can you see what's happening.
You have to see the, Karl, can we get it in the camera?
Not quite.
Here we have Karl.
There we are.
There we go.
Vera, you famously new Karl,
can you tell us a little bit about what these outfits
that you designed resemble?
I think they're absolutely both obviously homages to him
and it's enormous talent.
And I think while we very much wanna respect
all the work he did everywhere at Chanel,
at Chloe, at Fendi, it was really a moment for us,
for to translate our own version of how perhaps
we could wear Karl with respect and joy and privilege
to be here for him tonight.
That's amazing.
Now it is very French tonight and I have felt
like you on the carpet trying to pronounce Patou, Balmain.
[person laughing]
Do you any advice?
I think you're killing it.
You know what I think it is?
It's about the commitment.
It's the commitment to whatever you think it is.
And then you just sell it.
You just sell it.
That's what I think you have to do.
I mean, you're totally selling it.
I'm gonna tell that.
As long as you can say Choupette.
Choupette, yes, Choupette.
What are you guys excited to see tonight in the exhibit?
We've already seen it.
We'd like to see the exhibit.
I know, that's what I'm trying to see it, I know.
Yes.
Well get in there guys.
Get in there.
Thanks for saying hi.
We'll see you inside.
Merci.
[people laughing]
Oh look, you're already.
We're doing it.
All right, miss Wang.
Thanks guys.
I am here with someone who needs
no introduction whatsoever.
Doja Cat has officially stepped into the Met Ball.
You are here, all right.
Tell us about head to toe, I wanna know everything.
This is Oscar De La Renta,
and then my friend Molina did my prosthetics.
[Interviewer] Unbelievable.
I got Sasha Livingston on the nails and yeah,
I'm very, very excited and I love it.
So you told me this is your first Met Ball.
We talked about this.
My first Met.
So how does it feel like, are you nervous?
Is it crazy, 'cause the first one is is hectic.
It's really not bad.
Okay, you're all right.
Normally it's kind of bad, I feel nice.
I feel relaxed here, I don't know,
maybe it's the beige, I feel very calm.
You're in a good place.
Yeah, it's like very nice, organized.
All right so Doja, tell me on a night like tonight,
what is something that you're really,
really looking forward to?
I don't know.
Because they don't tell you what's gonna happen.
You don't have any information,
So I have no idea.
Right, right.
But I do hope to, have some good conversation.
Absolutely, see some cool people.
Have some fun.
Yeah.
Well, I'm so glad you came over to say hi.
Thank you. I just wanna say,
you look absolutely stunning and I love
how you are always you no matter what.
And you, and you know I support you through and through.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Absolutely, see you inside and have a great time.
See you inside.
[person kissing]
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I'm here with this stunning Rachel Brosnahan
and I'm so happy we're both wearing Sergio Hudson today.
And we were just saying how me too incredible he is.
And the looks are so different
and so fabulous, tell me about your look.
Sergio Hudson through some inspiration images
from a Chloe show in the nineties.
[Interviewer] Okay.
A lot of black mesh, a lot of embracing the nipple
and so here we are.
Absolutely, well, you look fabulous.
Thank you very much.
So, Rachel,
tell me what does a night like tonight mean to you,
especially honoring such a legend and an icon as Karl.
I mean, this is the kind of stuff you dream about, right?
Having the opportunity to attend,
it's the only event that I've ever been to
that is quite literally about wearable art.
It's about absolutely honoring the art of design.
And then we get to walk through the exhibit.
I mean, it's so special.
And get to look around.
See everyone.
All these incredible looks.
I've just been like all night long.
Absolutely, well, you're in for a fabulous evening.
And thank you for stopping by.
And you look absolutely gorgeous.
You too, thank you for saying hi.
Thank you Rachel, of course.
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It is a great honor of mine to be joined
with Anne Hathaway.
I'm at a loss of words and I'm drunk in your presence.
You look stunning.
And you recently became the face of Versace.
How do you guys work together on these looks?
Oh, you're giving me too much credit.
I just do what Donatella tells me to do.
Very gratefully, very gratefully.
She sent me a sketch for this
and I just went, well, all right.
And, but I do have to say I work with an amazing team.
My stylist, Erin, she always puts everything together.
So it's really her that does the collaboration.
I'm just a lucky girl.
I'm seeing a lot of Karl homages here.
There's the tweed,
I see a camellia like on my lappel
but also a little nod de Versace in the safety pins.
Absolutely.
And I have to give a shout out to my hairstylist,
Orlando Peta.
He brought a camellia from a Versace show in the nineties.
Can we get that?
This is the first time we've seen a vintage hairpiece.
Vintage hair piece.
We've seen some vintage Chanel pieces,
but not a lot of vintage hair pieces.
Yeah.
Leave it to Anne Hathaway.
Well, Orlando Peter, definitely.
The two of you together.
Got casual icon.
But yeah, I think it's kind of this,
it was meant to be sort of a marriage
between Versace and Chanel.
Rings I'm noticing.
Yeah, these little things, they're just a couple of them.
Little things.
They're my wonderful, wonderful
friends and family at Bulgari.
Beautiful.
Anne, when you came into the shot here,
you said that there's a certain way
that you can pose in this dress.
I did, you're gonna make me say it right now.
Yes, I wanna know.
How does the stress make you feel?
It's very hard not to laugh next to Chloe.
It's easier, next to Derek.
But there's just something about this dress
that makes you kinda wanna hit it.
You just kinda wanna hit it.
Get a little going on in your head and just fantasy.
Did I do it right?
Yeah.
Let me see, heck yeah.
Here we go.
Whoa, I'll just leave guys.
Great, great.
Come back, come back.
Well thank you so much and we look forward to seeing you.
So much fun, Derek, I love you.
We'll see you inside, I love you too.
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Here with someone I love very much,
Yara Shahidi is here with me.
You look gorgeous.
I was like, okay, first, let's talk about this look.
Xause this is it.
Thank you so much, it's Gaultier.
Half of it is archive from 2008.
And the rest is custom.
But it was an ode to my favorite Haute Couture, Chanel 93.
Wow, and you pulled this off fabulously.
You look so incredible now people are so excited
you're playing Tinkerbell in the new Peter Pan
and Wendy movie.
So tell me, how do you approach
such a well-known character and then make it your own?
Well, I think that's even the task of the Met, right?
You get a theme and you try and make it your own.
Quite honestly, I think it was trying to figure out
what this movie asked of Tinkerbell first and foremost,
which was already really fun, but a lot of fun references.
Last year I was here as an ode to Josephine Baker.
And funny enough, in this movie
I watched a lot of her performances
to look at how people like her
are using their facial expressions to communicate so much
when you say so little.
That's incredible and everyone is looking forward to that.
So what are you looking forward to here tonight
honoring such a icon and a legend like Karl?
What are you looking forward to the most tonight?
Well the Chanel House and Karl
were the first fashion house to really bring me
in at 16, I believe.
Wow 16 years old.
The first shows I ever went to,
my first experiences.
And I think my general appreciation for fashion
comes from that experience
and it comes from how welcoming they are
and being able to see fashion as art.
And so I think that really kicked off my entire journey.
So it's beautiful to be able to be here.
Absolutely, well, I hope you have an incredible evening.
Thank you.
See you inside, you look gorgeous.
Thank you.
All right for sure.
See you inside.
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Thank you so much.
You have to tell us about these looks.
Well, you know, I wanted to honor Karl
and I was doing black and white
'cause I was thinking
about his color palette's often restrained
in black and white.
And the last time Devin and Karl and I were together
was after my last show in Paris
when I originally lived there.
And she wore a winged leather piece, a bustier in the show.
And so I wanted to take a nod of mine with Karl.
And then of course I have my shared muse
Devon Aoki with Karl.
It's so great to have Karl back in the conversation.
He passed away in 2019.
I know you both were close friends and collaborators
with him, do you have any fabulous Karl memories?
Well I have a great story.
It might be a little long winded for this,
but I'll try to do it quickly.
When I used to model for Chanel,
they're one of the only brands
that would make you your shoe size.
And I have a very small foot.
What size is your shoe size Devon Aoki?
I have a size six, so it's pretty tiny.
And you know, the sample size
is always for models much bigger.
size nine, size 10.
Anyway, after the show, and Karl would say, okay,
take your shoes 'cause no one else
is ever gonna wear these so you can keep them.
And so I took the shoes, thought nothing of it,
and a few months later we were gonna show
the same collection in Japan.
Well, I got to Japan and of course I had taken the shoes
and they didn't have the shoes anymore.
So I had to wear these big size nine 10 shoes.
And there were a lot of steps.
It was a runway with almost all steps.
And I just turned to Karl and I said, oh my God,
there's so many steps, and he said, oh my God,
get rid of those shoes, being barefoot as chic.
I was a bride barefoot in the couture.
And it just shows he was so,
he was so sweet.
He was always made it work.
You know, he really did, and he was so good to me.
So that was a fun story that I always think about.
Chloe and I checked out the exhibit this morning
and I can't wait for you guys to see it.
I'm sure you're in some of the pictures.
Yes you are.
I know, I know.
I'm so excited.
Can't wait for you guys to see it
and have the most magical night.
Thank you so much.
Thanks for stopping by guys.
Paris, New York.
We're in Paris, New York right now.
[people laughing]
Thank you.
Thank you guys.
Here with the legendary Carla Bruni.
Now you were the first lady of France
and Karl was such an icon of France.
Can you tell us about your relationship with Karl?
Yes, I had a very long lasting time relationship
with Karl because it started
when I was a young model and it ended
just a few months before he left us.
Wow.
At his last show, we became friends,
I became a songwriter and he came to all my concerts.
Wow.
Without even telling me, just buying tickets and coming.
And then when I married my husband,
he was president of France.
So then he keep,
my husband gave him an honorific decoration.
And so we had plenty of dinners and a good time together,
he would send me clothes
to wear on official occasions.
Right, right.
And so we remain friends for about 30 years.
And Carla, how does it feel
to just see everyone honoring him tonight?
You personally knowing him and having such a relationship,
I know that has to be an incredible feeling.
It feels moving, almost overwhelming.
And I can feel his soul around us here.
And Karl didn't really believe in death.
He would always say death doesn't exist.
Wow.
The person just goes in another room
and person can come back any minute.
So that's how I feel tonight.
Absolutely, well, thank you so much for stopping by.
You look gorgeous, and thank you for talking to us.
= Thank you so much.
All right, Carla, have a great time.
You too.
All right, thank you.
Bye.
[upbeat music]
I am so excited to introduce the most guest
at the Met Gala Kim Kardashian, yes.
I love that.
You're always one of the most talked about people here
on the Met Gala Red Carpet.
Do you feel pressure to outdo yourself every year?
What's your process?
I did, but this year I just wanted to feel glamorous.
I really didn't feel the pressure.
I just wanted to have a good time.
I took a shot before I came with my sisters.
My daughter was in the room with me.
She's actually in the car watching us
all walk up the red carpet.
So it was just like a glamorous night.
Now I have a silly question.
What was it like meeting the famous Choupette?
A little scary.
it takes a little while to warm up to her.
She wrote me a sweet note and left it in my room.
We spent some time together before this.
Kim, actually,
you sent me a video of you and Choupette
having a little bit of a cat fight.
Did you guys kiss and make up?
We did.
That's the pictures that I showed of us in the bedroom
laying on the bed.
I think she was intimidated by all the people,
so yeah, we had a love fest.
And and most importantly,
tell us about what you're wearing tonight.
Who designed this?
This is Daniel for Schiaparelli.
And you know, I wanted pearls.
I thought, what is more Karl?
The iconic Chanel pearls is what I always thought of.
So we wanted to just be dripping in pearls.
All the way down if you can see this mother,
she's mothering, we're trying to be Gen Z.
We're trying and failing this.
Some popped on the way and I told my daughter
to grab them all, they're real pearls.
And she was putting them all in her purse.
Are they real pearls?
They are.
All right, well then I think
I'm gonna follow you around all night too.
Yeah, if you need me to pick up a pearl.
When's Mother's Day Chloe and I are gonna make
some pearl necklaces for our mother
out of the remnants of your Met Look.
Well, thank you so much.
And we can't wait to see you inside, stunning.
You have a long walk up that carpet,
and I'm thinking you're taking small steps.
[upbeat music]
Here with the fabulous Billie Eilish
just having our own little
private convo over here, having a great time.
You look gorgeous Billie, tell me about your look.
And I'm gonna tell you right now, the black hair, is it,
like it's it for sure.
I'm wearing Simone Rocha.
[Interviewer] Wow.
Who is just one of my favorites in the world.
And she does not like custom make anything.
And I was just like.
Please, you batted your eyes like this?
I did, I did, I did.
But yeah.
And you look incredible. So, Billie, talk about tonight,
this is honoring Karl Lagerfeld, an icon, a legend.
And so many people are just
bringing their interpretation of Karl and his designs.
What does a night like tonight mean for you?
I mean, it means a lot.
I'm just, every time I'm invited at all,
it's just an honor to me, I have a good time.
I go in there and I have good,
I have good stories afterwards, I'll say that.
Absolutely.
I'm sure you do too, girl.
Yeah, well, we're in for a night of fun for sure.
You made it through the hard part.
I did.
How intimidating are the steps, Billie?
Because people ask that all the time.
I feel like they're not too bad.
They're not that bad.
I feel like I'm not gonna die.
Okay.
So you made it through.
I made it.
Now it's time to have fun.
It's time.
See you inside.
Love you, take care.
Love you too, Billie.
All right, see you inside.
[upbeat music]
Looks amazing.
Are you guys ready,
we are joined by Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Nick Jonas.
No more small talk, we're live.
We're on vogue.com, how are you guys?
Wow. I was really enjoying everyone's.
Oh, thanks babe.
I was just enjoying watching everyone's take
on this year's Met Gala, people look amazing.
Everyone's turned out so well, it's awesome.
Came as a furry, that's great.
You didn't see that coming, did you?
Looks fire, so did Kim.
It's awesome.
This whole look is unbelievable.
I'm like blinded by this necklace you're wearing.
It's stunning.
I know.
It's a beautiful bespoke Bulgari piece.
And that's 11.6 carats or something.
[person gasping]
A lot of carat.
I like a lot of carats in my vegetables.
Poor Nick.
Now how did Karl inspire your guys' looks tonight?
I think the black and white as a classic Karl look,
we're trying to play with a few of the jewels as well.
Obviously you saw this.
Yes.
We've got a few of my own,
they're less exciting.
We love the Jewel.
Nick, do you remember we had dinner with Karl Lagerfeld?
I remember, in Paris.
That was the first time we met.
Like seven, eight years ago.
Yeah big night, big night for me.
Karl Lagerfeld and Nick Jonas.
What are your memories of Karl?
Lovely, I mean, it was a beautiful night
and wonderful celebration of him at that time,
and nice to be able to do that tonight as well.
I'll say.
[people laughing]
Chloe and I went to see the exhibit tonight.
I'm so excited.
Seven decades of Karl fabulous fashion extravaganza.
An an opening dress with a snake like your ties.
You're very on theme Nick Jonas.
Always on theme Nick Jonas.
I'm trying.
It's incredible.
Yeah, it's so exciting.
Like Viola Davis looking amazing as ever.
Oh my God.
Yeah, we're wearing Valentino today.
Oh, wow.
We we're with the Valentinos.
What an honor, well, thank you guys so much.
And we can't wait to see you guys inside.
See you inside.
Thanks Vouge.
Thanks Vouge.
All right, so I am with the fashion killer himself.
Russell Westbrook is here, now Russ,
you've worn a lot of iconic outfits.
You've had a lot of iconic moments,
and then the Met Ball comes
and we're honoring Karl Lagerfeld tonight.
So what do you do in that type of atmosphere?
What do you do?
How do you put it together?
Know, I think you start with history,
I'm wearing Bode tonight.
They was able to gimme some pants that I know Karl
was big into interior designing.
They got some pants from hotel
that was a part of some lining
that was only a piece of the pants that made it.
So I wanted to give a nod to him,
obviously with the pearls here as well.
[Interviewer] Absolutely.
But I'm just excited to be here
andhappy to be a part of it.
And for someone who's so into fashion,
like honoring an icon and a legend like Karl,
what does that mean for you?
I mean, it's an honor.
It's just a blessing me to be a part,
be a part of something like this.
And being such a was such a inspirational in fashion
for myself and so many people.
So I'm happy to be here.
Absolutely, and you shut it down like you always did.
I appreciate it.
Thank you for coming to say hi.
All right, have a good evening.
All right.
Thank you.
[gentle music]
Hi.
We're back with Viola Davis and Julius,
lovely you to meet you guys, thanks for coming tonight.
Absolutely.
Your most recent film Air has been a huge hit.
Yes.
You play Jordan's mother who until now
has been the unrecognized force
behind the biggest endorsem*nt deal
in the history of sports and maybe even fashion.
How did you approach that role?
Oh, I approached role,
like I approach every role where I just have to study
this subject, Dolores Jordan, incredible woman, you know?
And pray, pray that it works.
[people laughing]
Priyanka was just here and she said
you're both wearing Valentino tonight.
Tell us about this look.
They wanted to dress me for the Met Ball.
And I had a couple of different choices
and I loved the color.
Valentino pink, right?
And I love the feathers.
I know, I'm trying to do my microphone.
Like not touch the feather.
I wanna put my eyes right above feathers.
I know, I was asking about how you gonna eat tonight?
I'll figure it out.
There you go.
And the earrings are stunning.
The earrings are and all the jewelry is.
[Chloe] That's beautiful.
And yeah, I feel a little bit like a princess.
That's what here's for.
Or an empress, whatever you wanna choose.
Did you ever meet Karl yourself?
I've never met Karl.
It's like two different worlds sort of.
I know some people really are meshed into the fashion world,
even though they're actors, not us so much.
But obviously you know of Karl,
we know of his legendary work.
And his philanthropy.
He was just a great guy.
He really was a great guy, so.
He'd a pretty distinctive look too.
He did have a distinctive look.
Chloe and I checked out the exhibit this morning.
And it's pretty incredible.
I hear it's amazing.
Chills and tears.
Oh wow, that's great.
Well, you're done with us and now you can go check the show.
Absolutely.
Thank you guys so much.
Thank you.
Huge fans of you guys.
Even from the back.
[gentle music]
So I'm here with what I like to call the dream team.
We have Caitlin, Vanessa and Lea hanging out all together.
Each one of you ladies look absolutely stunning.
My co-host from last year.
I miss you this year.
I know, I miss you.
You look so stunning.
Thank you, and so do you three.
Amazing, Lea, you said you had a story.
I'm putting you on this spot.
I needed to tell you that I live in your house.
What?
When you moved out, I live in your house,
now I get tons of packages for you every day.
In my LA house?
No, here in New York.
[Interviewer] Oh my goodness gracious.
Tons of packages for you all the time.
I promise I don't open anything.
In case you're missing anything.
Okay, I trust them with you.
That place has great energy.
Good stuff.
So talk to me about tonight.
What does Karl Lagerfeld A Line of Beauty
mean to you guys tonight?
I mean, you can really feel his energy tonight
in everyone's gowns.
And this is my first time at the Met.
Oh, it's your first Met.
My very, very first Met.
Okay.
So it's very exciting to be here.
Absolutely.
It's so exciting, not too overwhelmed.
Not at all, I'm here with my pals.
She's got girls around.
I do.
Absolutely, absolutely.
Now, Vanessa, you're back not as a co host,
but as a guest this year.
So you put all the work on me.
That's okay, it's all right.
Sorry.
How you feeling?
I'm feeling great.
It's really nice to be able to just like come and hang out.
You know, we're here with Michael Kors
and he's just like the ultimate party starter.
He's the best.
I feel like everyone looks amazing.
So it's nice to be out with the girls.
It absolutely is, and Lea,
what does a night like tonight mean to you?
Well it's my night off from work.
There you go.
I told my son that I was at a wedding tonight
for my friends Anna and Karl.
Oh, there you go.
I love being here, like Vanessa said,
it's such a great group of girls that Michael put together.
I've been a fan of Michael for so many years,
and it's an honor to be here at the Met
wearing these exquisite dresses, and it's a fun night.
And you all, like I said, just look stunning.
Please have the best time tonight.
And thanks for coming by to say hi.
Thank you so much.
Thank you.
All right, for sure.
[upbeat music]
As fun as it is talking to these gorgeous guests,
don't forget, we also wanna hear from you,
our viewers watching live around the world.
So make sure you're getting in on the conversation
by using the #MetGala on social media.
We'll be checking in throughout the night and featuring
our favorite comments and questions right here.
[gentle music]
So I'm here with Brittney Griner and Cherelle Griner.
We are here at the Met.
I was so happy when I saw you both covered up the steps.
I was like, yes.
This is incredible.
What is this moment like for you?
It means everything just to be here with my wife
and just able to be here, it means so much.
Get to see this event a lot and actually live it.
It's amazing.
It's one of those things you watching, you're like,
one day I'll get to be there.
One day I'll get to go.
Cherelle, how are you feeling?
I mean, it's surreal still, you know?
I mean, this time last year I was missing my wife.
So to have her right here to be in this moment,
breathtaking.
Absolutely, Brittany,
we are so happy that you are here with us tonight.
It is such a moment, thank you so much.
I wanna hear a little bit about your looks tonight.
Oh yes.
Calvin Klein has styled myself
and my beautiful wife and they have done an amazing job.
It is dripping off of us right now.
Absolutely, that's it.
It's dripping off of y'all.
I like that, it's dripping off of you guys.
And on a night like tonight,
honoring Karl Lagerfeld, A Line of Beauty.
It's so many different interpretations
of Karl and everything.
What are you guys most looking forward to tonight?
I mean, just honoring him.
He is an icon in the industry, head of so many houses.
I mean, when you think of fashion,
you cannot not think of him.
So just being here, celebrating his life
and what he's done for the industry and just enjoying it.
Absolutely, absolutely.
Well, we are so happy that you both
were able to join us, life is good right now.
Life is great right now.
Yes it is.
And I definitely just wanna say, oh,
I wanted to make sure,
I don't wanna forget about this.
Can you tell us about the Bring Them Home campaign?
Yes, I was able to come home
and bring home our families.
They were big for us, they did everything.
Supporting my family, supporting my wife.
And it's a lot of hard work doing this.
And there's a lot of families
that don't get the availability that I have with media.
So every day just being there, being a voice
for those families so they're not feeling
left behind or forgotten at all.
Absolutely. Brittany Griner, Cherelle Griner.
I am so happy to see you, let's do a group hug.
I'm just happy.
Yes, yes, yes.
This is good, go inside.
Have the best time, you both deserve it.
Have an incredible evening.
Oh, thank you.
And thank you so much for stopping by.
Thank you so much.
All right, see you guys.
[gentle music]
Wow, look at these three lovely ladies.
We have Stella McCarty, Madeline Klein and Audrey slu*tburn.
slu*tburn to you.
Well, I'll take it.
Yeah.
And now tell us about this look.
It's a look.
It's a look.
And that's about it.
And that's it.
And this is.
This is Stella McCartney.
Wow.
It's amazing, isn't it?
That's right.
Sustainable Stella.
McCartney.
Great, great.
Now Stella, you took over from Karl Lagerfeld.
Are you're not taking this seriously?
I am.
I think he's very serious.
No, I'll be more serious.
Don't do that, do that.
That was good 'cause I did.
No, 'cause my name is Chloe
and you took over from Karl Lagerfeld at Chloe in 1997.
How did you work with his legacy at the house?
You know, my favorite moment about that,
and it's when I felt that I truly arrived,
is when Karl found out that I had taken over
as successor to the brand.
His quote was, I knew they would take a big name
when left the brand.
But I thought it would be a big name in fashion,
not in music.
[person gasping]
So good though.
A king of the one-liners.
So good.
Burn, burn, burn, burn.
I loved it, I was like, oh, Karl Lagerfeld knows who I am.
There you go, now Audrey,
is this an alter ego of yours who explain to me Audrey slu*t.
She just likes to have a good time.
Does the right thing, says the right thing at all times.
And Madeline, you look lovely.
Thank you.
And it's just Madeline, right?
Not Madeline.
It's just Madeline.
Great.
Great, well, I guess we'll see you three inside.
We stick together.
Stick together as you do.
The good news is that you have
the best Met Gala tour guide,
Stella McCartney's always the ringleader
of the good times here at this event.
All right.
I hope I see you again.
All right, get outta there you guys,
get outta there, get outta there.
It was lovely to meet you.
And we'll never see you again.
Christina Ricci is here.
We're having great conversation.
You look stunning. Christina, tell me,
how do you prepare for a night like tonight?
Well, I went and got some insane facial
with like microcurrents
and stuff to reattach my face to my skull.
I need to try that.
Which worked.
Looks so good.
This seems to have worked.
Looks so good.
Stuck on now my face.
Tell us about your look.
I'm wearing Fendi by Kim Jones.
Love Kim Jones.
Yeah I know.
I love Kim, he's one of my closest friends.
And it's inspired by Karl's time at Fendi
and how he experimented with fabrics
and the reworking of fabrics.
So yeah.
I think we're all in for an incredible evening.
I'm hearing the exhibition is unbelievable.
I'm so excited to see it.
So go and enjoy yourself.
Thank you.
And thank you so much for stopping by.
So nice to see you.
All right, always Christina.
Always a pleasure with you.
Have a great night.
For sure, of course.
[gentle music]
Guess what?
It's time for our first fan comments of the night.
Chloe.
Oh boy, Silver Fire says,
watching the Met Gala is one of my favorite traditions.
I absolutely love seeing all the beautiful outfits.
Whoa, Liz Lemon.
Liz Lemon.
Are you think that's the actual Liz Lemon
or is that like a fan account.
Well, we'll come back to,
but she says Chloe Fineman,
one of the hosts of the Met Gala, slay mama.
Slay mama.
Are we allowed to say slay mama?
I think so.
Okay all right.
Says, manifesting a lot of vintage
and archive Chanel for today's Met Gala.
Please keep your questions and comments coming
and we'll check in again later in the evening.
Shout out to the watch party happening right now
in my hometown of St. Louis, Missouri.
Yeah, I got some hometown hero
and threw their own Met Gala after party.
Maybe this will become a thing.
When we get fired, we'll come to those.
Yes, please invite us next to St. Louis.
[people laughing]
[gentle music]
It's Couples Night tonight,
we have Nicola, Brooklyn, Rena, Alexis, we are all here.
This is Couples Night tonight,
and we have a special guest here with us right now.
Do we wanna talk about our special guest, Rena?
I don't know, you tell me.
I think we should.
I think we should, I think we should.
Okay, and our new edition, there's three of us here.
There are three, three, three.
Congratulations, Rina.
The secret's out, the secret's out.
Congratulations.
Thank you.
How you feeling?
I'm good, I'm feeling good now.
Feel good?
Yeah I feel pretty good.
I can breathe, I can stop.
Well, you look gorgeous.
Not hiding, but yes.
[person laughing]
Look, we're both just like, I'm so happy.
We're like, we're locals.
We're semi neighbors.
That's what I says, couples night, just hanging out.
Tell me about your look.
You look absolutely, you never disappoint.
You're so sweet, you don't either.
Thank you.
Valentino.
Wow.
Brooklyn.
Yes.
You know you are a fashion killer.
You shut it down, tell me about your look.
Valentino, keeping it.
Rena.
We're holding it down for Gucci.
Okay, all right.
Both of us are.
Proudly representing.
Absolutely, and everyone looks gorgeous.
Tonight is such an incredible night.
It's Karl Lagerfeld, A line of Beauty.
We're honoring such an icon.
What does that mean to each one of of you guys.
We're so excited to be here, he is such a legend.
Honestly, I'm so excited to see everyone interpret
his legacy that he left behind
and do it in their own way.
And I'm so excited to see the exhibition.
Absolutely, Rena, you are amazing
when it comes to fashion.
You never disappoint on a red carpet.
So what does a night like tonight mean for you
to honor such an icon like Karl?
Well, yeah, I mean, Karl never disappointed
with his design.
So we're both just so happy to be here
and to get inside and not drink.
Look.
I'll be partaking for both of us.
I'll help you out, I'll help you out.
I'll help you out.
Well, thank you all for stopping by, couples night.
Love you all very, very much.
I'll see you inside all.
Bye everybody.
All right boys.
[gentle music]
So a little while ago we asked you
for your favorite Chanel runway design
and you chose Supermarket circa 2014.
Supermarket circa 2014 was pretty iconic and legendary.
So I see why you chose that.
And now the Met Gala has seen countless memorable looks
over the years, but which is your all-time favorite?
Sarah Jessica Parker and Alexander McQueen in 2006,
Rihanna and in 2015,
Chadwick Bozeman and Versace in 2018.
Or Lady Gaga and Brandon Maxwell in 2019.
Head to at Vogue Magazine on Twitter to cast your vote.
Excited to see who you vote for.
Cara Delevingne is here, I'm so excited to see you.
I met Cara as a wee teenager and I watched her
grow into being a ultimate Karl Lagerfeld muse.
It's a big night tonight.
It is a big night, yeah.
A lot of emotions honestly,
I cried on the way here a little bit.
I don't know, it's kind of like,
it's a wonderful thing to be able to do this
and honor such an incredible person, not only in fashion,
but a person is a friend, I owe him so much,
it's an amazing way to remember him, yeah.
I imagine your look tonight is inspired by Karl himself.
Can you walk me through it?
Yeah, so this is like his iconic white shirts
and a lot of jewelry.
This is by Karl Lagerfeld.
It just felt right.
But yeah, the gloves, everything.
All the pieces that kind of make me, yeah.
And just some kind of silvery silver blue hair.
And you came in in sunglasses.
I did.
I'm gonna wear those.
On the carpet.
Yeah, little bit.
Wait, whip them off.
Was it ever, this is the dumbest question,
but I'm so sorry, I have to ask it.
Double down on it.
Cara Karl, was that ever hard or confusing?
Cara Karl, Cara Karl.
No, people just call me Karla by the end.
That's what I would do too, Karla.
One of my favorite Cara Delevingne moments
in the world of Chanel was the supermarket show.
Yeah my favorite.
Do you remember Rihanna
was push pushing you around in a shopping cart.
I was pushing her around.
Oh, excuse me.
Don't worry about it.
Thank you for fact checking me.
No, we were both in it.
Joan was pushing us around.
Joan Smalls was pushing you around
and I'm sure the internet will correct all of us.
I stole, can I say that,
I stole so much from that supermarket.
They had like a Chanel chainsaw.
Anyway, I don't steal things.
Love it.
Well that's my favorite supermarket experience.
Do you have a favorite Chanel memory?
There was so many, I think doing a show in Edinburgh,
we went to Japan, we went all around the world.
But honestly, his looking into the future,
he really like did so many things.
We did this amazing women's march.
And I think also,
one of his last shows that we did.
And it was like at the Ski Chalet and like all the girls
were all crying and holding hands
and it just felt like such a moment.
But he is one of those people that no matter where he is,
he's always there.
You may see him on the carpet tonight.
I hope so.
Deep thoughts from Cara Delevingne.
Yeah.
But like he lives on, look everything.
He's influenced so much.
Not only in fashion, so.
Well you're gonna love the exhibit tonight.
It's all Karl all the time and I'm happy to see you.
Lovely to be with you Karla.
Thanks guys, nice to see you.
Karla, Karla.
Thank you guys, I will get back to what I do best.
I don't know what that is.
And I'll have these mics.
[gentle music]
Let's take a look inside this year's exhibition,
Karl Lagerfeld, A Line of Beauty
which opens to the public on May 5th.
What always struck me the most about Karl
was that he always wanted to be relevant
and he never wanted to look back.
I think he did look back.
I think he was actually deeply nostalgic.
He would never admit it.
And he always wanted to look forwards.
And he absolutely always had the finger on the pulse
and always was looking at the zeitgeist.
I think that what kept him so relevant was his curiosity,
his intelligence, but also open-mindedness.
He would take inspiration from anywhere,
from the green sweater in the street,
or from art or from film or from literature.
He wasn't a snob,
but he was a snob, he was a democratic snob.
And I think that's what kept him abreast of things.
'Cause he was so passionate and so interested.
He had this magnanimous spirit.
So the dream team has officially arrived
and slayed this carpet
like no other, Kendall is here, Kylie's here.
My best friend Kim is here shutting it down.
Tell me how you're feeling tonight.
I feel amazing, I'm so happy to be here for Karl.
And just for the theme and for the Met, I'm so happy.
I'm wearing Marc Jacobs.
I am wearing Haider, JPG, Haider Ackermann.
Gorgeous, gorgeous.
And I am wearing Schiaparelli.
So Kim, tell me,
what is a night like tonight
honoring someone like Karl mean to you?
To me it's like super emotional
just because I obviously love my sisters,
I love my family.
And seeing Kendall really started her beginning
of her modeling career with Karl
and was the bride in so many of his shows.
And I would just sit and watch them.
And I mean, my first fashion shoot ever, Karl shot it.
So it's so special.
Okay, so Kendall, talk about that.
Just starting your career with Karl and then now being here,
honoring him tonight.
Yeah, I mean, it's amazing.
Like Kim said, I think it's a little emotional,
I owe a lot to him and what he did for me.
And it was such a pivotal point in my career for me.
I started working with him when I was really young
and really new and he really embraced me.
So I'm honored to be here.
I'm honored to celebrate him.
Absolutely, and Kylie, on a night like tonight,
what are you looking forward to the most?
I'm looking forward to making more memories
with my sisters, seeing all the fashion.
I'm just here for a good time.
With my best friend.
Maybe a little tequila 818.
I like how you did that.
I like how you did that.
I'm blessed to be here, blessed to be here.
Well, I hope you guys have an incredible night.
We're in for some fun drinking and dancing,
now everybody can breathe and go have a good time.
Exactly, we'll see you inside.
This is the last stop.
That is the most stressful part of the night.
Everything is done.
Inside.
Go have a good time.
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[gentle music]
We are here with two people
who just officially shut down the carpet.
Hot out there.
Caresha, Yung Miami, is here.
Puff, AKA love, AKA Diddy.
We are in the building.
All right, come on.
Let's talk about what it feels like to just walk up here
and just shut the whole carpet down.
I mean, it feels great.
You know, we out here giving that Black excellence.
This is Sean John's debut.
Wow.
First time I designed in 10 years and you know,
we feeling good.
How you feeling Caresha?
I'm feeling great.
This is your first Met Gala.
What does that feel like?
It feels like a dream come true.
We were talking a lot and FaceTiming
getting you ready for today.
So now that you've done it, you've made it up the stairs.
Does it feel like, okay, I can finally breathe now?
I'm like, okay, you got through it, it was good.
It was perfect, it was everything.
You were perfect.
She's gorgeous.
Gorgeous.
Stunning.
Amazing.
Incredible.
All right, I have the million dollar question right now.
You ready for it?
The million dollar question is,
so do y'all officially go together real bad?
I'm asking, I wanna know.
She gonna answer that.
You not answering that.
Real bad, it's official, real bad.
I don't know what you asking exactly.
We definitely go together real bad for.
Oh well then that's what it is, then that's what it is.
She's my date for the night.
It's just a good date night.
Oh, it's a date night.
Date night, date night.
We don't put titles on it.
Everybody wants us to put a title on.
We don't put titles on it.
This is like my best friend in the world.
One of the most beautiful people
God has blessed me to meet.
[Interviewer] Absolutely.
And I'm blessed that she's my date tonight.
[Interviewer] Absolutely.
Can I get like a little napkin for my forehead.
And by the way, maybe y'all onto something.
No titles might be it, for sure.
No titles might be it, that might be it.
You good?
Yeah I'm good.
All right, so last question.
The is hot.
Last question, tonight we're honoring
Karl Lagerfeld, A Line Of Beauty
Tell me what that means to you to honor such an icon
like Karl Lagerfeld.
I got a chance to spend time with Karl
when I was designing Sean John
just as a fellow designer and he was so creative
and he had so much attention to detail.
You get some of that.
Want some baby girl?
His attention to detail and his attention to beauty.
Yeah.
It's just hot baby, look at the.
This is what I'm wearing.
It's Sean John Cape.
Nah, this cape, like the detail on this cape is crazy.
Shout out to.
You know the first Sean John collection
so it's a little hot.
So I'd rather you ask Caresha some questions
so I could go get my cape fixed
and I could get all this sweat off of me
'cause I'm hot.
I love you so much.
So, all right Caresha.
Before you guys go inside.
What are you looking forward to the most tonight?
Just and see what everybody got on.
So yeah, I wanna see how good everybody looks.
Well y'all go in there and have an amazing time.
I'll see you inside, can't wait to party and drink.
Love you.
Come to the party tonight?
What kind of question is that?
Make sure everybody knows if they can't dance
or they don't want to dance, don't come to my party.
Don't come, you heard it here first.
Don't come.
Saw John is back baby.
Let me figure out my cape.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Thank you baby.
See we got the flowers.
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All right,
so we are joined now by 20 time Grand Slam champion
and Met Gala co-chair The spectacular Mr. Roger Federer
who's been keeping me company.
We've been having our own little thing going over here.
It is so nice to see you, so tell me this,
what is your favorite thing about your life since retiring
from professional tennis?
It's good to be home.
It's nice to have a more of a solid life
not being on the road and packing, unpacking.
But I love that life too, so of course I miss parts of it.
But just being home with the children,
having a schedule where I can meet friends on a Wednesday,
other people on Friday.
Having a social life.
Social life, having family trips on a weekend.
Having some really nice vacations as well.
And life's still fun, it's still very busy.
I'm surprised actually how much is going on.
Yes, and we were talking about how many Met Galas
you've been to.
So what's the count, how many Met Galas?
This is only my second.
This is your second one.
So do you have a favorite memory of the Met Gala?
Yeah, I mean when I came here,
I believe it was since 2017,
so it's a while back.
[Interviewer] It's been a while.
Yeah, it's been a while and it's been a lot of fun.
I didn't know what to expect.
So this time I feel like I kind of know how it's gonna run.
You know the flow.
I know the flow.
And being a co-chair this year
obviously makes me very happy.
You know, being here with Anna
and helping out the Metropolitan Museum
and the Costume Institute, so it's great fun.
Absolutely.
Well I hope you have an incredible evening.
Thank you for keeping me company,
we had great conversation.
Thank you Roger.
I'll see you soon.
See you.
[gentle music]
I am here with Marc Jacobs himself and Paris Hilton
are officially in the building.
Thanks so much for stopping by to chat for a little while.
So Paris, I'm gonna start with you.
This is your first Met Ball.
How does it feel to be at your first Met Ball?
I just feel so excited to be here
with the legend Marc Jacobs.
I just did his campaign and it was so incredible
and I'm just loving the dress that he made for me tonight.
The dress is absolutely stunning.
Mac, tell us about this dress.
Well this dress I'd say,
like I believe in collaborate.
Do you want me to hold this?
Yeah, yeah.
Okay, so you know, collaboration of the sort.
So it was like a thing,
first of all to dress Paris Hilton is like,
how the do you, oh sorry, how do you do that?
Right, so I thought like,
well maybe it would be interesting and exciting to see her
in a black gown, 'cause it's not typical for Paris.
So we approached her with the idea and then we added
the idea of leather and she was all game and everything.
And then she had some comments,
like, I need a little sparkle
and could you make this fabric here?
Right. And we worked together and made it happen.
And she looks fantastic.
Nailed it, nailed it.
Absolutely fantastic.
So Marc, I'm gonna say,
you are one of fashion's most respected people
and I know you have an incredible amount
of respect for other designers.
So how do you think about this tonight
honoring Karl and his legacy?
Well, Karl, I mean, I've looked up to Karl.
Karl's been a hero of mine since I was 17 years old.
And looking at Chloe Collections and Karl's been a hero
of mine and he's also been a great supporter of mine.
And I think what I find so exciting always about Karl's work
and what he does is that he was like, to me,
the true fashion designer, like there were no limits.
It was about unbridled creativity,
but always with elegance and sophistication.
Absolutely.
And tongue in cheek,
but but always just in the sort of most Lucian cool
like sort of smart, classy way.
Absolutely, now Paris,
I know you tweeted a picture of you and Karl.
Tell us about that.
Karl and I hung out in Paris a couple times
and he was just such an inspiration to me always.
And we had so much fun and just so many memories.
I've always just looked up to him in so many ways.
[Interviewer] Absolutely.
And I love that we're honoring him tonight.
Absolutely, you both did an incredible job.
Have the best time, have fun.
The hard part's over.
Now you can go and have a good time.
Yeah, thanks.
All right, thanks Marc, thank you Paris.
Thank you so much.
See if we can get that exhibition.
[gentle music]
[Speaker 2] Three seconds.
Is it?
Earlier we asked what was your all time favorite
Met Gala look and you chose.
[person humming]
Rihanna, Gou Pei.
Ooh, look at this.
This was also I think the dawn of the Met Gala meme moment.
[Chole] Yes.
Do you remember this dress was everywhere
and every different type of variation.
Yes.
It was an omelet.
And a train.
I feel like we have a lot of trains tonight.
Rihanna Does not disappoint.
No, she never does.
And we love hearing what you guys think.
So keep the conversation going
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[upbeat music]
I am here joined by Baz Luhrmann who I just love so much.
I don't fan of over a lot of people.
But you are definitely one.
Thank you so much for coming to talk to us.
Tell us about tonight.
How are you feeling tonight?
You know what, a year ago today,
myself and actually who's up next,
we were here celebrating Elvis.
I interviewed you at the same.
Like today we're celebrating Karl,
and we're with him 20 years ago, we were great friends.
And when you see the exhibition inside,
you will understand the true genius of the man.
I mean, it's hard to believe a single person
made that much beauty.
So that's what, tonight is a great show.
There's gonna be a really surprising thing happening inside.
I might know a little bit about it.
It sounds like you know something.
Just a little bit.
But I will tell you it's all about that exhibition.
I encourage young people to get out and see that exhibition.
Absolutely, now Baz, before you go,
tell us about your look.
Actually, Tom Brown did.
Oh, I love that.
I love that.
This is Tom Brown.
This is Karl Lagerfeld by Tom Brown
or Tom Brown by Karl Lagerfeld.
These are pearls by.
An amazing and jewelry, so London designer.
Well, one thing about you,
you always know how to put it together.
Thanks for coming to say hi.
I wanna say one thing.
I'm really honor to be here, but bring on Alton Mason.
Yes, Alton Mason.
Hi baby.
How you doing?
How are you?
I'm doing good.
Oh, you got that.
Okay, thank you.
Good to see you Baz.
Thank you, so Alton, tell me about this look.
It's incredible.
So, my biggest memory with Karl,
I got the blessing to meet Karl in person was doing Chanel
becoming the first black man to walk with Chanel.
Such an honor
and something to be so proud of.
So this is a very full circle moment for me.
My team asked me, what do you wanna do?
And when I think of the grand moment,
I think of the Chanel bride.
And so here we are.
And no one has done it better.
No one has done it better.
Thank you baby.
I love you so much.
You look incredible.
You gotta celebrate when you're inside.
Absolutely, we will celebrate.
Thanks for coming by.
All right, see you in a few, yep.
All right, we got.
Hi sweetie.
Hi baby.
Hi baby, how are you?
I'm good, how are you?
Yes, I haven't seen myself on TV.
You look so good.
You liking it, you liking it?
I kind of do.
You look incredible.
All right, Jennifer, tell us about the look.
You look incredible.
Thank you.
So good.
It's always so good to see you shut down, shut down.
Like every single time, tell us about the look.
Thank you, it's Ralph Lauren.
Wow, wow.
Very excited about it, I wasn't sure about the hat,
but now I'm kind of feeling it.
No, no, the hat is it, the hat is it.
[people laughing]
So, yeah.
Having fun tonight.
And Jennifer, tell me about a night,
like tonight we're honoring Karl.
I know it's A Line of Beauty.
What does that mean to you when you hear that,
when you feel that, what does that mean to you?
I hate throwing around the word iconic.
I've said this a very,
because everybody uses it so much,
now is like the word to use.
But he actually was such an iconic figure in fashion.
And when you think of like the last 50 years, you think,
like if you think of five people in fashion,
he's one of them.
[Interviewer] Absolutely.
And what he did with Chanel and for so long
and keeping that brand so fresh and young
and alive, he really was a genius.
And it's amazing to be here tonight.
I got to meet him and for a little girl,
like we say from the Bronx who like kind of aspired
to the fashion world and to be an entertainer,
to meet people like that was always such a dream to me.
So it is a real honor to be here
to celebrate him tonight.
And celebrate his legacy in fashion.
And you've been to a lot of Met Gala as a lot of Met Ball.
So what do you look forward to?
I look forward to seeing everybody,
it's a nice congregation of like fashion and film and music.
Absolutely.
That's my world.
Those are my worlds, it's always a lot of fun.
Well I'm so glad you stopped over to say hi,
have the best time.
Thank you so much.
See you inside.
Always good to see you.
The hat's perfect, the look is perfect.
The hat, dinner, take it off.
I don't know.
[gentle music]
[Speaker 3] Vogue's Weekly podcast The Run Through
will be dropping a special episode tomorrow
starring me, yours truly.
I'll be discussing all things Karl and spilling the tea
about everything you won't see from inside tonight's event.
New episodes of The Run Through are released every Thursday
and can be found wherever you get your podcasts.
But tomorrow's Tuesday's episode is a special edition.
One of my absolute faves has officially hit the carpet.
Erykah Badu is here everyone, you just look,
over here, over here, you just look amazing.
You just look stunning, can you tell me
about this look Erykah,
tell me what we got going on here today.
Well today I am joining Francesco Risso
who is the creative director of Marni.
[Interviewer] Wow.
And we went together last year as well.
And we're together this year because we've been hanging out
quite a bit 'cause we just dropped our clothing line.
I did see that, yes, I did see that.
And it looks incredible, and this outfit is so incredible.
Thank you.
Erykah, we are honoring Karl Lagerfeld tonight.
A Line of Beauty.
Talk to me about what that means to you.
Karl Lagerfeld,
the black and whiter things
is what Karl means to us in fashion.
The daring, oh I'm sorry, daring or not too daring,
it's one or the other.
Absolutely.
And that's what Karl represents to us.
So happy you're here, I just love you so much.
And your daughter's here.
Your daughter's here for her first Met.
Puma, come through, come in babe.
You look, I want everybody to see how gorgeous you look.
Thank you.
How are you?
I'm doing great.
You look absolutely gorgeous, Puma,
tell us about your look.
Well, my look,
to me it just gives excellence.
I don't know how to describe it, excellence.
Expensive, but I think, stop laughing.
I think a way that it also pays tribute to Karl
is by the detail and the amount of work
it takes to put into a, oh sorry.
The amount of work it takes to put into a garment.
And you know, I think that that's kind of how
I pay tribute to him because he's so detail oriented.
Absolutely, absolutely.
Now your mom's been to a lot of Met Balls,
but this is your first one.
So how does it feel to be at your first Met Gala?
Well it's a little nerve-wracking.
I know, right?
Those steps, the carpet, everything.
Girl, I had a little workout 'cause this thing is.
Heavy, heavy, heavy.
Yeah, but you know, I just feel a lot of love here.
Of course.
Really good energy.
I feel great about tonight.
And you made it to the top.
I made it.
Now you get to go in and just have a good time.
Absolutely, I'm ready to eat.
Same, same, same.
Erykah, you know how much I love you.
Love you, love you, love you.
Puma, have the best time tonight.
Great meeting you.
All right, thank you.
Thank you sis.
Of course.
Thank you Vogue.
Let's take another look
at the making of this year's exhibition.
[gentle music]
The Candlestick dress is from Karl's own label
from Autumn Winter 1985.
And it falls within a line called The Satirical Line.
And it looks at how Karl would transfer his whitt
and irony humor into clothes
through almost surrealistic embroideries.
This particular one was inspired by a candlestick.
It was almost as if when you placed the candlestick
on the body, it became a sort of substitute of the woman.
And so when she walks and animated the candlestick,
it almost looked like an animated cartoon.
A bit like Lumiere from Beauty and the Beast.
[gentle music]
All right, so I'm here with my sis.
My family has arrived, Teyana Taylor is here on the carpet.
I mean, sexy fire, swagged out.
I don't even know what else to say.
Tell me about this amazing look by Tom Brown.
Yes, I'm in Tom Brown from head to toe,
inspired by Karl Lagerfeld,
his classic look, the tie.
Absolutely.
The little ponytail in the back.
Get into that.
Get in, you know, the Chanel tweed.
Get in.
Get in, the classic Karl Shade.
Get in.
I'm just suited and booted, yeah.
The body is bodying and doing everything else.
So Teyana, you have been to tons of red carpets.
You've been to so many events.
What does a red carpet like the Met Gala mean to you?
Especially honoring Karl Lagerfeld?
Oh my God.
I know it feels big when I gotta potty.
And it was just like I did so good the whole 35 minutes.
I was watching you, I was watching you.
As soon as I got my ass on that carpet,
my bladder said, hey girl.
I said, not now.
Not now.
Not now.
So, yeah, but I mean, that means it's good though.
I always got a potty when I'm nervous.
So knew I was a little bit nervous.
And I wanna talk about your performance.
I watch it so many times, watch it on the plane.
I watch it in theater, I watch it over and over and over.
Tell me what you did to embody that character
the way you did, it was showstopping for sure.
Thank you so much, sis.
Honestly, it was a lot of layering
and a lot of color coordinating of the layering.
Yes, she has a lot of layers with her.
So we had the color coordinated
and it was like a good shorthand
for being on set, 'cause you know how I go,
we film outta order, so of one day,
she's been in that tax, the next day,
she getting married,
So I think color coordinating and layering Inez
made the process really amazing
and it was really therapeutic.
Absolutely, I think there's some big awards
in your future for that.
Thank you.
Thank you so much for coming by.
We're gonna party tonight, we're gonna have fun.
Your anchor voice.
You know, I do many things, I do many things.
Period, but I love the voice.
The voice is voicing, yes.
Thank you.
I will see you inside, love you.
See you inside, all right, babe.
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[gentle music]
[gentle music]
The what, oh, now we vamp.
[Derek] I think we're vamping right now.
[Chole] Okay.
Wow, what a night.
I have two words.
[person humming]
Lotta cats.
[Derek] Well, well played, well, punned.
[Chole] Well, I'm looking at Cardi B
and I had to and it was bad,
but I said it anyway.
[Derek] It's been nearly two and a half hours
and my dogs are barking.
Oh, get it.
Great, yeah.
[Chloe] Let's break down the cat.
Doja Cat was a cat.
[Derek] Lil Nas X was a cat in I'm told full body makeup
by none other than Pat McGrath cat.
[Chole] Really, Cat McGrath, Cat McGrath.
And then Jared Leto literally was the cat.
[Derek] He was a huge puss*.
He was dressed in a full body costume.
[Chole] Yes he was, puss* cat he was.
[Derek] I gotta say beyond the cat and the cat puns.
[Chole] We could do for hours.
[Derek] Killing more cat puns than kennel, kennel.
[Chole] Kennel.
Kennel, never too late for a kennel joke.
Another big theme tonight,
I have really liked is all the black and white,
the monochrome.
That was obviously the way Karl dressed.
Reminds me a bit of Black and White Ball,
everything.
Oh, yes, yes, we go back in time.
And the pearls, the all the pearls were beautiful.
The mother of pearls.
Is everyone still watching?
Is everyone gorging on all the black and white looks?
Gorging on the gorgina looks.
Even I have my little cat here.
Meow, meow.
Meow cute of you.
Yes, oh, here we go.
Nicole Catman, just kidding.
Pinel meow Cruise.
No.
No.
We should stop.
But the fashion was really unbelievable and we're not drunk.
We're completely sober as we're talking down these looks.
Believe it or not.
Believe it or not.
Well, we have more content for you.
Don't go, don't go.
Chloe, what are we about to see?
We are about to see.
More from inside the making of this year's exhibition.
Karl Lagerfeld, A Line of Beauty
which opens to the public.
On May 5th.
[gentle music]
[people chattering]
Well this is the conservation lab
in the Costume Institute.
And we're responsible for the care
and any repair of the garments.
This hem has all been restitched,
but we still want the other piece
to cover the damage tool in the front.
[Speaker 4] Okay.
So we need to check that that's ready to go.
For this show, since many of the objects
are loans from outside,
we unpack them and do a very thorough examination of them
to make sure that they're safe to exhibit.
I think that should work pretty well.
[gentle music]
This way.
Your face is like glowing.
Thank you baby.
Where's the camera?
Where I gotta look at?
[Speaker 5] Look, you're right here.
Look, you can see everything.
This one, look straight to this one.
Oh, this one.
Oh, right here.
All right.
You look so good.
You look beautiful, you look sexy.
All right,
so I'm here with none other than Cardi B
who just killed the red carpet.
Completely, completely killed the red carpet.
Cardi, tell me about your look tonight.
'Cause this is intricate.
This is so beautiful, tell me about your look.
Thank you, it's from a designer called.
This is my second look of the night
and it's giving a little bit of everything.
Like if you see like the texture of this skirt,
it's given like a Chanel boy bag.
[Interviewer] Absolutely.
And then it got the flowers, the flower,
when you get a Chanel purse,
it always got the white flower, but this one is Black.
And then up top here is giving Karl,
so I'm representing the house of Chanel
and Karl at the same time.
I like how you broke that down.
And I like how you did that.
Now you've been to a couple Met Galas at this point.
What makes tonight so special?
What makes tonight so special?
You know what it is too?
That it's like, it's like a designer,
we're so like we know so much, we know so well.
And then it's just like,
I was curious to see how people are gonna rock his design
because everybody got like.
Their own interpretation.
Their own interpretation
of how things supposed to look tonight, so yeah.
I really like the looks for tonight, people killed it.
So Cardi at the Met Gala,
what is something that you look forward to the most?
The carpet.
The carpet, right?
So now you could breathe.
You made it all the way up.
My God, I hope I passed the test, honey.
'Cause once you get on Instagram,
that's when you know you passed the test.
That's. when you know you passed the test.
Go have a good time.
Thank you, you look beautiful.
Oh yeah, we gotta talk.
Thank you, yes we do.
Thank you baby.
Okay.
Oh, I almost buzz my.
You good?
Thank you.
[gentle music]
So the carpet is winding down.
It is, it is.
This was kind of our first date Chloe.
It really was.
How did it go?
It was our prom.
It was our prom.
It was a magical night for both of us.
Yes, yes.
Yes, now as somebody who's constantly on her phone,
I noticed that you posted about the times
that you knew Karl.
Oh yes.
And he had a little nickname for Mr. Derek.
What was it?
I mean, I loved Karl Lagerfeld
for all the reasons we heard tonight.
He could do 10 jobs at once.
But the puns, this guy was a pun wizard.
I'm a pun fan.
He called Beaux Derek.
ut like, not Beaux Derek with the braids in the swimsuit.
Beaux Derek, the French word for Beaux, Beaux Derek.
Which means, and I pronounce that Beaux.
Derek, if nothing else,
we've learned tonight that Chloe Fineman French.
Chloe, Chloe.
But speaking of you impersonating people that you're not,
did you find any new impersonations this evening?
Anyone that you'd like to do?
Oh, I do.
When I was talking to Anne Hathaway, I was like that's.
Do you wanna tease the little Annie or no?
Well, I mean, I just, in the way she,
just the posing.
fashion's kind of cool 'cause you get to see a new side
of how to do an impression,
which is like how they are on the carpet.
That was sort of my in on Nicole Kidman
was the way she poses.
I gotta be honest.
Yes.
There have been some people
who've come into the fashion swirl.
Ooh the swirl.
Which I've worked in for over two decades,
longer than I'd like to admit sometimes.
And they sometimes describe coming to fashion events
as an SNL skit.
There's so much drama over the hat and the hair.
I mean, little secret we're gonna share.
We had Cardi B in here, but she was worried
that if she did the video first,
it would rob her or would cannibalize
her red carpet debut.
The reveal.
And she didn't wanna ruin her reveal.
Right, she needed the drama.
I'm not allowed to do that guys.
Not the impression we're gonna learn tonight.
No, no, no.
But the drama, the trains,
there's always like eight people.
That's my new job that I want.
Is which part?
I wanted to do that to Cara,
but I didn't wanna be bad.
Right, you didn't wanna pick her train.
I was gonna try and pick her train and kind of.
You like to be a fluffer?
Yeah, she's Megan the Stallion and I'm.
A missed opportunity.
Hindsight is 2020.
Gosh is it ever.
One thing I loved about tonight was reliving
all these incredible Karl memories.
Yes.
I've worked in fashion long enough
to really respect his craft, he's a legend.
Yes.
And I'm very excited about the exhibit.
Yes, Karl Lagerfeld, A Line of Beauty
is open to the public May 5th to July 16th.
Let's take yet another peak inside the exhibition.
[upbeat music]
Paper was Karl's favorite material.
This white garment
was from Chanel's Haute Couture 2009 collection,
which was an Ode to paper.
And you see the paper quality
in the sort of crispness of the shoulders.
The crispness of the Aline Skirt
and the inverted V in the pleat.
And it's entirely embroidered with tiny and seed beads
that took 700 hours to embroider by.
And the garment itself is a dress and Valero,
it took about 340 hours.
So in total it was over a thousand hours to complete it.
Real tour de force of the Haute couture
and shows the incredible skilled craftsmanship
of the Petty workshops.
[Derek] What do we say?
[Chole] I don't know.
[gentle music]
Karl began at Fendi in 1965.
And this particular coach from Fendi
is inspired by Sonya de simultaneous paintings,
which was all about color and geometric shapes
and rhythmic patterns and its a remarkable achievement.
Each square, each circle,
each rectangle has been pieced and laid into the garment,
and it's lined with silk that mirrors
the same pattern as a fur.
So it sort of has this ambiguity
between the inside and the outside.
[gentle music]
So Chloe Fineman?
Yes Derek Blasberg.
How are you hanging in there?
Well, I'll be honest, I'm in my flip flops.
Can we pan down and show.
I'm in my Ritz Karlton slippers.
Can we show where Chloe is this evening?
This is her vibe.
She's officially transitioned to slippers.
You know, it's still chic.
I'm in my corset, the heels.
I was losing circulation.
There's just so much glamour.
Chloehad to take a little break.
Hey, I think Lala, can you hear us?
Are you there?
She can't hear us.
No, well, we are waiting
for our biggest star of the night.
Yes, we are.
Who do you think it is?
I think I know who it is.
I think you know who it is.
Okay, it rhymes with just kidding.
She, they he.
He or she or they
have made us wait before.
Yes.
So that's the only clue you have.
So far.
Yes.
But, we can hang.
Just see how it goes.
Maybe we'll have other clues as the night goes on.
I'll say.
Chloe, quick question.
Who is the best dressed for you this evening?
You know, I saw her from a distance and I really,
I just wanna see Penelope Cruz up close.
I thought that was like, Ooh, Margot Robbie, Nicole.
Margot Robbie, yeah, of course.
She looked fab.
Yeah, she always looks fab.
Always, Michaela Coel's dress looked beautiful.
Yes.
I like bedazzling, can you tell?
Oh wait,
I am getting a feeling that maybe Lala can hear us.
Lala, are you there?
I hear you, I hear you.
Hi guys.
Hi.
How's it going down there?
You're good, we're good.
We're good, hi.
So the night has been amazing, just an amazing night.
Everything I thought it would be times 100.
This carpet,
everyone who came and gave their interpretation
of Karl Lagerfeld, A Line of Beauty is just so incredible.
I'm excited to see the exhibit inside.
I'm excited to see who we're waiting for.
We're here for a reason.
A reason that everyone wants to stay put
and stay tuned because there's a big surprise.
One thing about the Met Gala, there's always a surprise.
There's always a big surprise.
So definitely don't go anywhere, you don't wanna miss it.
It's an amazing night that's about to get even better.
That's all I can say, but yes,
tonight has been amazing and I'm honored.
I've been having such a great time and thank you to everyone
who's tuned in and watched us and saw
all the incredible looks
and we talked to so many incredible people.
It's just been amazing all the way around, for sure.
So now it's just the waiting game.
We're just waiting to see what happens next.
I'm excited for you guys 'cause I know what it is,
but you don't, so you gotta stay tuned for sure.
[person breathing]
[gentle music]
Every year, Raul Àvila and his team
create the most spectacular
centerpiece for the Metropolitan Museum's Grand Hall.
Cameras aren't technically allowed inside the event,
but we've got a special sneak peek
at the making of this year's installation.
And it's just for you.
Check it out.
[upbeat music]
[gentle music]
I said the word dream team a couple times tonight,
but this right here is the real dream team.
We're back together, this is the real dream team.
Now I've done this before.
Yes.
This is you guys' first time,
tell me the experience, how you feeling?
I know your feet hurt.
My feet hurt, but you survive.
We'll do anything for fashion.
You push through.
You push through, you have to.
And what are we doing right now, Lala?
We are pushing through for fashion.
[person laughing]
We are waiting for a big surprise.
What's great about the Met Ball is that there's always
an incredible surprise.
You never know what's gonna happen.
So clearly we're here for a reason, a special reason.
A very special reason.
You gotta stay tuned to find out it.
The Super Bowl of Fashion.
It is the Super Bowl.
Oscars, the most important night in style.
In my life.
So tell me, being that this is the first time
you guys have done this,
what was your favorite part of the night?
I liked Lizzo's outfit.
I like that Serena announced.
I know.
Her second baby on the way.
The secret is out, I love that.
I love that.
Nice to be the baby.
you're gonna tell all your friends one day.
That was me right.
I made my debut at the Met Gala.
Not bad.
[Chole] Getting to talk to the designers
was so fascinating.
And the theme is unbelievable.
[Interviewer] Yeah, for sure.
[Derek] We have Anne Hathaway
and Emily Blunt here tonight.
So I had a certain Devil Wears Prada nostalgic moment.
Chloe made a good joke.
[Chole] Yes, Lala, what was your favorite moment?
So, so many moments just seeing friends
and seeing everyone, their interpretations the theme
and just all the amazing things people had to say about Karl
and who he was as a person and his legacy.
I was really touched by that.
Everyone had so many incredible stories
and things like that, but the fashion was on point tonight.
I was like, everybody looking real good tonight.
[Chole] Yes, yes.
[Interviewer] And the cats.
The little cats.
Doja Cat was incredible prosthetic that she.
[Chole] What was that like talking to her?
[Interviewer] Oh, it was awesome.
But it looked incredible.
But she was like, she talked clear.
She, she could make it through.
This is her first Met as well
and she was having such an incredible night.
And there was another cat jumping around down.
[Chole] Jared Leto.
[Derek] Jared Leto was a cat, Lil Nas X was a cat.
[Interviewer] Yeah, look, you're right on theme.
Exactly.
[Derek] I actually didn't think
could become a figure deal.
Like they already have their place and the.
On internet, on Instagram.
Was honored just as much as Karl in a way.
Absolutely.
We have, we have some comments on Twitter.
Let's see what's going on.
So Rita Zago says,
My first time watching the Met live.
And everyone is so on theme, I love it.
I can't wait to see more of the fits.
@MonetAlex says,
The girls are doing really well with the theme this year.
This has to be some sort of record.
Says This year's Met Gala is honestly
my favorite theme, and I love it so much.
I love it so much.
It's so nice when they're nice on the internet.
I know.
I was like, every time I read Twitter, it's like, ooh.
Exactly.
Love fest.
So thank you, thank you for all the love and I mean,
we're almost there.
Do we feel some commotion?
Do we feel something happening?
Do we feel something happening?
Do we hear anything?
What's going on?
Do we feel something happening?
Do we hear anything happening?
Who could it be?
Derek's like I know who.
I know it is.
Any favorite Karl quotes?
That's a good question.
I have some good Karl one liners.
I mean, love that guy.
If you're cheap, nothing helps.
Okay, that's a bar.
That's a bar for sure.
My favorite, which I tell myself every day,
'cause this is what I wear all the time.
Is it about sweatpants?
It is, Sweatpants are a sign of defeat.
you lost control of your life.
And so you bought some sweatpants.
You took mine, you took mine.
[person laughing]
What's so surreal about this evening is that Karl himself
was not a fan of nostalgia.
He was relentlessly forward looking.
He was obsessed with technology.
I remember when the iPads and the iPods
and the i everything came out.
He had 10 of every them, a dozen iPod touches.
And so it's sort of surreal tonight to spend so much time
thinking about him nostalgically in retrospective.
I definitely think if it was here tonight,
knowing he was being honored at the Met Gala
with an exhibition at the Costume Institute,
he'd have a couple of one-liners to deliver himself.
Absolutely, so let me ask you a question.
Did you get any material tonight?
[Chole] I did.
[Interviewer] I know you got some tricks
up your sleeve after this one.
[Chole] A new cast of characters start working on.
[Interviewer] So good, can't wait to see.
So great, well, I heard something,
I heard some clapping or some yelling
[Chole] Wow, I love this Kendall look
that we're looking at right now.
[Interviewer] Yeah, it's so great.
[Chole] And the hair was really on point.
I have to say tonight.
Orlando Petita gave Anne Hathaway a beehive.
A lot of ribbons and bows we saw in everyone's hair.
So good, so good.
Karl Lagerfeld of course,
was most famous for a powdered white ponytail.
I think Cardi B had a little tribute of her.
Yes.
And Cara.
Definitely.
J Lo.
Oh, how was J Lo?
Yes.
Lala, you interviewed J Lo.
What was she like?
She's awesome, she was like,
at first I wasn't sure about the hat,
but then I looked at it and I loved it.
I'm like, the hat was absolutely perfect.
The hat was perfect.
Here she goes, right here.
She looked incredible.
Absolutely incredible.
[Chole] Not to comment on a woman's body, but oh my God.
[Interviewer] Absolutely incredible, wow.
The hat was cool.
So many amazing looks tonight.
Let's take a look at Janelle Monet as well,
who you guys saw.
I didn't get to see her.
[Derek] We saw her come in and she had a pretty elaborate
monochromatic, I mean a couture tent.
Can we call it that?
What are some of the verbiage?
[Chole] Couture tent.
Oh, what was that word today at the costume exhibit?
[Derek] That's the one, that's the one.
Who's this in the purple lace?
[Interviewer] Shutting it down like always.
[Chole] Love how florals make their way
into so many of the looks tonight.
[Derek] Did I see you talking to Diddy today?
[Interviewer] Yes, and it was good.
It was a good moment, we had some fun, but, all right,
so we are going to just take a chill pill real quick
and keep waiting, all right.
[upbeat music]
[gentle music]
[upbeat music]
All right, so we tried and we tried.
Sometimes things don't work out the way we expected,
but you can catch everything on vogue.com.
You don't wanna miss anything, I promise you.
There are some magical moments and you never know.
You never know what you're gonna see.
So make sure you tune in and the night isn't over.
But the show is.
I just wanna thank everyone so much for joining us
live on the carpet at the 2023 Met Gala.
If you missed anything, like I said, I said it once.
I'm gonna say it again.
Visit vogue.com to watch the show again.
Now, I don't know about you two,
but I could really use some champagne.
Champagne.
I think you mean Cham pleasure, Chloe.
That type of night.
It's that type of night, good night everybody.
Thank you, goodnight, goodbye.
[gentle music]
