Janelle Monáe's 2022 Met Gala Look: All the Behind-the-Scenes Details! (Exclusive)
etonline.comJanelle Monáe is channeling timeless elegance at the 2022 Met Gala. ET was exclusively with the 36-year-old actress as she got ready for this year's event at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art, and she explained how she's putting the gilded glamour theme, , into action through her Ralph Lauren look.«Gilded glamour is the theme for this year's Met Gala, and I would say that [my outfit] is gilded glamour, but in the future,» Monáe teased. "… Once you look, there is going to be a lot of things dancing… glistening, a lot of just diamonds from the earth.
Black diamonds.«Choosing Ralph Lauren to dress her for the event was easy for Monáe, who praised the brand for how they've „always stepped up and embraced me and given me suiting when I could not even afford suiting at the time.“»We have a wonderful, wonderful relationship, so going with them to this even makes it more special to me," she said. «As an artist, I love creating, I love collaborating… If I could just take one [dress] right now, this one would probably be the one.
It is timeless, future, past, now. It speaks to so many different decades and centuries.»Once her designer was chosen and the theme was announced, Monáe began her research.«I thought, 'What has Ralph Lauren done?
What do I feel like could be timeless, that speaks to the past, the present and the future?'» she recalled. «I looked at some of their archives. [I saw] a look that I really loved, but I was like, 'What if we made it in the future and I put my Monáe touch on it?
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