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  • - Hi Vogue!

  • - Ciao!

  • - It's Cardi and I'm going to talk to you guys today

  • about my first day at the Met Gala,

  • and what you guys put me through.

  • - Let's [laughs] let's rewind.

  • [intro music]

  • [camera shutters]

  • - This way?

  • [camera shutters]

  • - So much was happening in my life in 2018.

  • I was moving, I was focusing on doing my album

  • and thinking about my baby and,

  • that's a lot!

  • That's a lot that year.

  • - Cardi and I first actually physically met in Miami.

  • - He hired me to do Art basil.

  • How do you say that? Art Basel.

  • - Art Basel.

  • - Can you imagine if I would have said art basil?

  • Like basil [laughs]

  • so funny.

  • - I was like, I wanna have that cool chick Cardi

  • who sings that Bodak Yellow song.

  • - He was just so welcoming.

  • He is always so welcoming,

  • like he always makes you feel good.

  • - I was kind of shocked that she seemed so reserved.

  • She was very sweet.

  • - And he is just like so excited,

  • like his clothes really represents him.

  • His personality matches his clothes,

  • so he matches me, he matches my energy.

  • - Shortly after, she would've come to my show in February.

  • And then it just kind of stuck to me like,

  • she should go to the Met with me, she should be my guest.

  • - For him to take me to the Met gala,

  • it was just like genius.

  • It was just meant to be.

  • [upbeat music]

  • - The theme was heavenly bodies,

  • fashion and the Catholic imagination.

  • - When I heard the theme,

  • I was just so excited because I'm Christian Catholic.

  • - I was really excited because there was so many ideas

  • that it could be.

  • Thinking about religious art, pietas, sculptures,

  • Madonnas and child--

  • - All I thought about was just royal queen.

  • - Also, I knew secretly that she was pregnant.

  • She had divulged that with me.

  • - All I was thinking about is, like,

  • Mother Mary.

  • Because I was pregnant, like I really wanted to do that

  • but like, you know, a modern version.

  • - That became the new surprise to have to deal with

  • in this equation.

  • - And I wanted to look like royal, queen, motherhood.

  • He sent me sketches of course,

  • and of course everything looks really amazing

  • on the sketches.

  • [camera shutters]

  • - The first fittings are always funny.

  • You know what I'm saying?

  • Because your hair be messed up, your face be messed up.

  • The dress was really big.

  • - She was swimming in it when we did the first fitting.

  • - And I'm like um,

  • I don't like dat.

  • [laughs]

  • - We had to take it in immensely

  • to make it fit perfectly

  • and that was a challenge with all the beading,

  • as you can imagine.

  • - When everything came together I was just like wow

  • - It's a little bit of a trial and error,

  • you start doing some embroidery samples.

  • - It came back even better than the sketch.

  • You could see it, you could see the work,

  • you could see the time, you could see the effort.

  • - I think that if we estimate,

  • the amount of people working on it, doing the handwork,

  • 24 hours, what is that 24?

  • 24 times two weeks which is 14 days,

  • 33,600 hours.

  • - That's individual hourly work.

  • - Dang, isn't that crazy?

  • - I mean when you see it in person

  • and you see every little small detail.

  • - And then there's always the final thing that has to change

  • because that's just the way it is.

  • - I told Jeremy Scott that I wanted like a big headpiece.

  • - When we were doing the fitting, she really wanted

  • this kind of crown.

  • - Just the headpiece is such a bold statement.

  • [explosion noise]

  • - You can really tell when you really collaborated

  • with the designer and when the designer just let you,

  • just dressed you.

  • You know what I'm saying?

  • It just shows how much you love fashion.

  • - We set about making one in a very short amount of time.

  • - I think like the third time of the fitting,

  • I saw the headpiece and I almost even forgot about the dress

  • because that's how amazing the headpiece was.

  • - I think she was right to want that headpiece.

  • I think it really topped off the look

  • and it made it really even more in theme.

  • - Like I said, that's what you see the saints have.

  • [upbeat transition music]

  • - Let me tell you something,

  • days at the Met gala is always very stressful.

  • The day before, the day after, the month after,

  • is always very stressful.

  • - Well the day of the Met is always a bit

  • like Cinderella going to the ball.

  • - You gotta wax your lip, you gotta wax your eyebrow,

  • you gotta [makes obscure noise],

  • you gotta make sure you, your legs is nice and shaved.

  • - Lord of mercy, I can tell you there's been times

  • that people have been in a hair and makeup black hole

  • for hours and hours and hours,

  • and that's one of my worst nightmares.

  • - [laughs]

  • So you know us women, well,

  • we are very specific about red.

  • So we decided to do a red lip, right?

  • And I just felt like the red didn't match.

  • [laughs]

  • It wasn't the red that I wanted, so

  • my makeup artist she was just running back and forth

  • getting different type of reds

  • to match the jewels on the dress

  • and the crown,

  • it was just like ugh,

  • just the little things just sets everybody off.

  • - With the hair,

  • - I love when my real hair is out,

  • I just feel like a lioness,

  • like I just feel so beautiful,

  • I feel so natural like I feel like it represents me.

  • - She was dead set that she wanted to have this hair.

  • This volume.

  • - I mean my hair don't get that big,

  • you know what I'm saying?

  • I need more inches.

  • - So she went that direction,

  • and again I think she was completely right.

  • - The one thing that me and Kollin always do

  • when we have like major red carpets or something events,

  • we always debate our nails.

  • Nobody like kisses my ass this and that,

  • if they feel like something doesn't go,

  • they just gonna tell me that,

  • I don't feel like it goes.

  • And we actually agreed on the nails,

  • 'cause my nail artist don't be having it neither.

  • [upbeat transition music]

  • - I distinctly remember realizing that she seemed nervous

  • when were on our way there.

  • - I was really anxious, I was really nervous.

  • - And I just said to her in the car, I said we got this.

  • - He always makes me feel like

  • no pressure, it's all good, it's all fun, be happy.

  • - I hope that gave her a little bit of peace and calm.

  • - It was a lot of pressure,

  • 'cause it's like I'm not doing it for me,

  • I'm doing it for this person as well.

  • [upbeat jazz music]

  • - Once I hit the red carpet, I don't know

  • I just felt like this confident,

  • I just felt so royal.

  • - She lit up, and there she was.

  • The Cardi that we all know and love.

  • - [Liza Koshy] You look like an angel!

  • - Yeah you too, you're beautiful.

  • - Oh, stop!

  • - It was so many paparazzi,

  • but once I hit that carpet I'm like,

  • hold my purse.

  • - Cracking jokes, telling the photographers,

  • you know, he's my baby daddy.

  • - When you see my look,

  • I feel like you just don't see a pregnant woman.

  • - I feel like you see royal goddess woman, motherhood.

  • - It was fun.

  • We had a wonderful night.

  • - You guys don't even know that start

  • I was like woo child,

  • I saw how happy Jeremy was,

  • and that makes me happy too.

  • Like, I feel like I always have like a connection with him,

  • I love him so much.

  • - It was just a really beautiful, beautiful night.

  • And I have that to cherish with me forever.

  • - Thank you guys!

  • I feel like I'm a family with Vogue,

  • I don't know why.

  • I need my office there.

  • [light piano music]

- Hi Vogue!

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