00:00One of the best dressed men on the planet and co-chair of this year's Met Gala, Coleman Domingo.
00:05Looking good!
00:06Hello, my dear sis.
00:07I mean, you ate this up.
00:08Oh, no, you ate it up, too. Thank you. I appreciate it. Thank you.
00:11Well, listen, I knew I had to represent tonight.
00:13Period.
00:14And I drew inspiration from many things.
00:16From, you know, I wanted to take this across the seas in many ways and really got inspiration from sort of the Moors, like Othello the Moor, and people who, you know, and kings.
00:26Yes.
00:26And then also the color blue was also a color that when we were doing our research with Monica, when she was telling me that a freed slave wanted to wear his finest blue, super fine wool suit.
00:38Wow.
00:39And I thought the color blue is perfect for tonight.
00:40And also I feel like it gives you choir.
00:43It gives you king.
00:45It gives you all those moments.
00:47And it's a little nod to Andre Leon Talley as well.
00:49There's a great photo of him actually at the Met Gala with the beautiful blue cape, as he would always do.
00:56You always know what to do and you always know what to say.
00:57I'm picking up everything you are putting down.
01:00I'm clocking all of it.
01:01You look fantastic.
01:02Yes.
01:02You really do.
01:02Yes.
01:03And so you're actually one of the covers of the Vogue Met Gala issue this year.
01:07What are you most proud of when you look at that picture?
01:10I'm proud of eight-year-old Coleman who was awkward and skinny and a nerd, but he had dreams he believed he could be something else.
01:22And it looks like a manifestation of not only my dreams, but many dreams of my family and ancestors.
01:26I know I'm standing in a moment that's for not only myself, but many men and many women as well, who toiled, who made sure I had, you know, what I had as working class people.
01:39I represent West Philly.
01:40I represent queer culture.
01:43I represent, you know, many people.
01:45So I'm very, very proud to stand in this space.
01:47You are representing well.
01:49We cannot wait to see you in there.
01:51You look fantastic.
01:53You are doing us all proud.
01:55You look good with a T on that, a couple of T's, a couple of T's.