Colman Domingo makes his Met Gala debut in a custom look by Willy Chavarria.
“This feels like sort of the icing on the cake for my award season,” says Domingo, who was nominated for an Oscar this year for his role in “Rustin.” “I know that there’s been a lot of attention on my looks and style and the storytelling that I do with clothing and fashion, and I knew that this was going to be a major moment. So when was offered, my stylists did some reach outs to see who’d be interested in dressing me.
Chavarria sent sketches to Domingo and the styling duo and their collaboration began. Domingo was looking for something romantic, and he wanted to continue the royalty theme he’d worked with throughout his awards season campaign., in many ways. I feel like it could look very much like British royalty at times, and I wanted this to be at the top of that,” Domingo says. “I’m like, if we’re going for coronation and being the king of the red carpet, will be the true coronation.
As for their interpretation of the exhibit’s theme “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion,” Domingo says that the romantic nature of Chavarria’s tailoring fits in with the archival pieces of the exhibition.look will become a gorgeous archival piece that people will recognize and it will be in museums in the future,” Domingo says. “I love the detail, what Willy’s doing with the draping. There’s a beautiful classic strong men’s tailoring, and it’s a little exaggerated, which is what I love.
“I love that Willy has inspiration from the 1940s, and he does very interesting shapes, and it’s sexy and it’s romantic, and it’s sort of absurdist at times, and it fits with me in every single way,” Domingo adds of the designer. “I feel like even the way I dress day to day, I may have a very different personality, but I felt like for my first time going to The Met, Willy seemed right. It seems like, ‘Oh, he understands my personality.
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