At round 3 o’clock within the morning on Tuesday, May 6, A$AP Rocky descended upon the Manhattan eating place Jean’s to take a look at the second one part of his Met Gala after-party. As the co-chair of favor’s greatest night time celebrating the “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style” exhibition, the rapper and AWGE fashion designer had lots to rejoice, no longer least of which integrated the scoop that he and his spouse Rihanna predict their 3rd kid. Joining him on the soirée had been Sabrina Carpenter, Jenna Ortega, Spike Lee, Keke Palmer, Pink Pantheress, Natasha Lyonne, Tracee Ellis Ross, Megan Thee Stallion, Julia Fox, and Baz Luhrmann.
An upstairs speakeasy area was once constructed to resemble a tailor store—becoming, given the Met Gala’s get dressed code, ‘Tailored for You.’ But regardless of the entire get dressed paperwork dressed in blazers and the glass circumstances full of ribbons, trims, and finishings, the attention inevitably gravitated towards the stacks of colourful pairs of Ray-Ban shades everywhere the room; Rocky was once lately named the ingenious director for the logo, which cohosted the development with the “Highjack” musician. A are living band performed jazz requirements by way of John Coltrane and Freddie Hubbard (Rocky is a famous jazz fan, and instructed W ultimate 12 months that he frequents small jazz bars and golf equipment across the town) whilst VVIP visitors had been rushed right into a cordoned-off space coated by way of a thick curtain.
A$AP Rocky and Megan Thee Stallion
Photograph by way of Myles Loftin
Downstairs, it was once a complete other scene: low, crimson lights; a packed dance flooring; Casamigos tequila spilling over visitors’ glasses as waiters rushed at the back of them with mops. Designated personnel sat at tables rolling joints or blunts in tobacco leaves, handing them out without spending a dime to the gleeful crowd (broker’s selection!). Trays of cheeseburgers and fries had been handed round to remedy the munchies. As he walked into the dense crowd, Daniel Kaluuya rapped alongside to the A$AP Rocky music blasting overhead. Together along with his team, Rocky took one thing of a victory lap via his weigh down of visitors.
But the place was once the lady of the hour, Rih? The megastar famously arrives on her personal time and as of 3:20 A.M. she was once nonetheless lacking in motion. Many of the night’s attendees both gave up and went house or had been heading to their subsequent Met afters. But round 4 A.M., the Bad Gal herself confirmed as much as the AWGE Tailoring area, sparkling in an all-black ensemble regardless of the overdue hour. She posed for the cameras in entrance of framed pictures of iconic Black dandies of all stripes: Jean-Michel Basquiat, Louis Armstrong—and naturally, A$AP Rocky, too. Here, a glance inside of.
Sabrina Carpenter and Jenna Ortega
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Tracee Ellis Ross and Natasha Lyonne
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