Inside Doja Cat s Powerful Met Gala Look

[people chattering]

Amala.

Amala!

Oh, my God, hi.

Hi, Vogue.

Welcome to our humble abode. Hi.

Look.

Oh, my. [chuckles]

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What s up, Vogue?

I m Doja Cat, and I m here to do the last fitting

for my outfit for the Met Gala with Marc Jacobs.

I m here with Brett,

and we ve been having a great time putting this together.

I think this was, like, rather, like, quick.

I think when they sent over sketches, we were like,

I mean, No-brainer.

So the theme for this year s Met Gala is Superfine.

It s a really exciting year.

This is now Doja s third Met Gala,

and we ve done pretty big looks for her in the past,

and we really wanted to do something a bit more streamlined

and a little bit more comfortable for her to enjoy.

When this all came into fruition,

and we were talking about the looks,

I spoke to Marc and his team about kind of the new era

that Doja s going into for this new album cycle.

It s very reminiscent of this year s theme,

but it has a little bit of a twist on it,

and there s this 1980s elegance to it,

but, in that, there s a lot of structure and shape

and power, so I know Marc was, like, super excited

about creating a look for us for this year.

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I m working with a new hairstylist, Vernon.

I wanted somebody to do my hair

in a way where it wasn t flattening it,

it wasn t straightening it,

it wasn t trying to undo the natural way of my hair,

and so, I think, for this,

it s gonna be really, really gorgeous.

Whatever he does, I think he really is a vision for people

who have hair like mine.

And then I m also working with Pat McGrath.

I just love working with Pat.

I think she s fantastic,

and her whole team is just so, so chill

and so fun to be around.

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I know people are gonna reference Grace Jones,

and they re gonna see like, the outlandish, like,

ocelot print and the things that just feel very like,

showmanship of fashion, and Met is kind of this funny game

where it s like, are you going so over the top,

and you re giving this like theatrical performance?

Are you going like so on theme?

And I think for us this year, we re like meshing the two.

To go through the different eras of what Doja cat is,

we ve seen a lot, like we started off in her very big like,

pop realm of like the 1970s, which was Say So,

but she can really dip into a lot of different eras of music

and a lot of different themes,

and it just really fits perfectly,

and musically, it s just something different,

and I think the fashion side of everything

is so different than what we ve done in the past,

so it really gives us a lot of playing room,

and it s a big field to have a lot of fun.

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Here she is.

Hello, voila.

Voila.

It s my arm going up like that, it s kind of,

no, it s good. [chuckles]

It s my favorite thing.

I love the silhouette of it, I think, the most,

like what it s doing for my body.

And then we re gonna try a couple different shoes.

There s a few options that are still coming in too,

but there s a boot that is really, really cool,

so I m gonna try-

LJ, bring the boots! As well. [chuckles]

Marc also like reimagined The Kiki

cause it s such like an iconic shoe for Marc Jacobs,

but he did almost like, the stiletto pump on it,

which is just really special,

but then going down the route for the boot as well-

Route for the boot. She loves.

How does this speak to the dandyism of it all to you?

Well, because of the, the zoot suit,

I think those stripes are pretty vital to that image.

And so, adding in a pinstripe with a little zazz to it,

instead of doing it printed onto the clothing

or however they do it, it s a little sparkle,

I think, kind of speaks to me personally,

and I think personalizing the suit

is what makes the whole dandyism of it come together.

Yep, that s Met Gala.

What s so special too, cause this look speaks such volumes

of being such like a major moment,

but it s doing the most without doing the most.

Yeah.

I can already see you posing.

She s giving a lean.

[chuckles] Yeah, like I m stuck in this position

for most of it every time I m wearing this,

but I love, like, I love what it does

at every angle, for sure.

I ve also wanted pointy boobs my whole life, so.

Not for myself, for you.

♪ A dream of pointy boobs ♪

Can I take the earrings out of your ear?

Can I, did I just ask if I could?

Can I? Yes.

Today you can.

It s a delicate subject.

Brett s a little bit of a chihuahua-human hybrid,

so I don t allow him to take my earrings out.

Or put them in.

I m just shaky,

it s hereditary. Today, I just don t care.

[Brett] And it s caffeine.

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So for hair, I spoke to Vernon.

We wanted to play with a shape that felt quite boxy

in the hair and give me sort of a crown.

It s definitely inspired, again, by Grace.

Her hair was her crown, her hair is her crown.

I think we re gonna try to build on top of what I have,

and let it still feel quite natural.

It feels like I m evolving in a sense of my artistry

is like, evolving to a higher meaning

when I m being more myself, and respecting myself

and my body and my natural state.

The way that the cat-face look with Oscar de la Renta

spoke to me.

It felt like spiritually intertwined with who I was,

cause I love to transform,

and that was my transformative moment.

And then, what I did last year with Vetements,

the tears were sort of explaining my emotions

in the sense of like, my music and how that album

was a really big sort of like purge of emotions for me,

and then, this just feels like I came out

of that sort of melancholia

and went into this sort of like strong character

that is ready to be like, happy and have fun.

When I was on the phone with Pat,

she saw the sketches, she saw everything.

So we were thinking of playing with color.

I know Pat really wanted to do something

that felt a bit exaggerated in the form of like,

the liner and the lashes.

So, I think we d be doing something

that felt very cat-like and very, very clean.

This would also be the first Met that you have done

that it feels just like beauty, because year one,

you were in full special effects makeup to look like a cat.

Sure. And then last year,

it was like the tears dripping down your face,

which all had elements of beauty.

[Doja Cat] Mm-hmm.

But I don t know if you ve ever gone as just-

This is more- You.

More, yeah, this will be a little bit more me

in that sense.

This feels kind of like, yeah,

kitty cat s ready to go, ready to dance.

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You feel very powerful.

Fucking rock and roll, mate.

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Like that s a wrap, biatch.

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