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Tracee Ellis Ross Gives Met Gala Advice

Tracee Ellis Ross talks to Emma Chamberlain about how every Met Gala is a new experience, regardless of how many you've attended.

Released on 09/13/2021

Transcript

You look gorgeous!

Thank you.

So who is this?

Balenciaga couture.

Incredible. Right off the Paris runway.

Yeah! Yeah,

with a little Tiffany s, Yeah!

you know, just your regular bangle.

These are like what I wear to the market,

not! [Emma laughing]

And I did a cute little bob.

I was going to say,

I m obsessed with the bob.

Yeah, thank you.

I ve been wanting to do something like that,

but you just like really made me feel like I need to do it.

You need to try it.

And the beauty of it is you can do what I did

and try a wig and then you can just see how it works.

Yeah, wait, that s genius.

I have a shit ton of hair,

excuse my French,

[laughing] and we just tied it down underneath and yeah.

So at the end of the night It looks amazing.

I ll go back to all my hair.

I love it. Yeah.

How many Mets have you been to?

Think this is my fourth.

And then I did one in like the 90s, I wanna say,

with my mom and Tom,

when she was here, performing for Tom Ford.

That s awesome. Two...

I don t know when that was,

I m not sure. So you know about this?

No, you never know about it!

It s one of those things it s always new.

Okay, you know what?

That s really comforting for me

because this is my first year- No!

And I just have no idea what I m doing.

Oh, you re doing everything right,

how about that? Thank you so much.

And you re just a beautiful Exactly.

young lady- Thank you.

Who is sparkling like an angel.

Thank you!

Interviewing fun people I imagine.

Oh yeah!

You ve been my favorite.

Well, thank you, that s very kind.

I mean it. Well, you know,

you can say that to the next person too.

Well, when you walk to all of them,

you ll be like, oh, she didn t say that.

[Tracee continues laughing] she did, like...

Anyway, no, you re the best.

It was so amazing

to speak to you. Thank you,

lovely to talk to you. I ll see you in there.

Have a great time!

Thank you! Enjoy. All right.

Bye. Bye.