Ayo Edebiri talks with Emma Chamberlain at the 2025 Met Gala about the lessons she learned from her Dad's daring sense of fashion.
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00:00Wait, well first we have to give each other an air hug.
00:02Is that the amount of this tonight where I'm like, yeah, the girls are aware of the glam.
00:06But we can't, no one can move, no one can touch each other.
00:09No, we shouldn't.
00:10No, we shouldn't.
00:11No, we can't.
00:12Yeah, yeah, yeah, we won't.
00:13Wait, how are you tonight?
00:14I'm good, how are you?
00:15You seem just like excited and happy.
00:17I am.
00:18I'm very happy to be here.
00:20Yep.
00:21I mean, something that I love.
00:22Yeah, wait, tell me about the look.
00:23This is Farragamo by Maximilian Davis.
00:26And we just were talking about like our own entries and inspirations into this.
00:32And we kind of, the conversation kept going to the people in my life who I think are so dandy.
00:38And a lot of them are in my family.
00:39So this is inspired by my dad's heritage partly.
00:42He's Nigerian.
00:43He's from the Edo tribe.
00:44So I'm in my little Edo look.
00:46What's up?
00:47I love it.
00:48I love it.
00:49What's like one particular thing that you, you know, have sort of adopted from your dad?
00:54Like if you had to pick like one, like accessory.
00:56Trait?
00:57Oh no, like clothing.
00:58I was like, uh, we can, we can go there.
01:01Um.
01:02No.
01:03One like accessory.
01:04Like is it like, you know, a certain type of shoe?
01:06Like is there something that you like picked up on?
01:08Oh man.
01:09He like actually had just had some of the most amazing style ever.
01:12So like, uh, when he and my mom got married, part of the inspiration for this was he wore leather pants.
01:17This was a post Eddie Murphy raw world.
01:19Whoa.
01:20And he was like, yeah, like I have to wear leather pants and tails.
01:24And so he just really swings for it.
01:26He was always like power clashing.
01:28Yes.
01:29We're like multiple patterns at the same time.
01:31Yes.
01:32Crazy shape.
01:33He just would go for it.
01:34So I feel like that's kind of.
01:35Or is that your vibe?
01:36Like, are you going to wear leather at your wedding if you ever get married?
01:38Like is that the.
01:39That's a deeper question, right?
01:40And then we go, whoa.
01:41Um, no, I don't know.
01:42But yeah, maybe I feel like I try to.
01:44And like when I get to come up and like go to events or I'm doing press or whatever,
01:51like me and Danielle, my stylist, I feel like we're always just like, what's giving us like pleasure?
01:55Yes.
01:56What are we really enjoying?
01:57Like what's exciting us?
01:58And we kind of go, we kind of go there.
02:00You go there.
02:01Yeah.
02:02I try to, I think I try to, I try.
02:03You, you know, you, you're doing amazing and you look amazing.
02:06And thanks for chatting with me.
02:08We, we're going to have the most fun ever in there.
02:12Oh yeah.
02:13What are we going to do in there?
02:15You got it.
02:16You got, you got, you got to get, you got to get a ticket for that.
02:19Yeah.
02:20We don't talk about that.
02:21We don't talk about that.
02:22We don't talk about that.
02:23We don't talk about that.
02:24We'll, we'll discover that together.
02:25We will.
02:26In there.
02:27In there.
02:28And I can't wait.
02:29I love you.
02:30Oh, we'd be really hugged.
02:31I know.
02:32Wait, that's like forbidden at the Met to like actually hug.
02:33Okay.
02:34But we did it.
02:35We did.
02:36And everything looks fine.
02:37And glam is all good.
02:38Okay, good.
02:39I love her.
02:40So that's just how I feel.