climbed onto the bar at Boom Boom Room in New York City’s Standard Hotel to twerk.
It was, in a way, Monáe’s second performance that night, after having seized the Met Gala steps as a stage upon which to make her first major reveal for the evening. Donning a custom black-and-white Thom Browne coat and an elegant twist of fabric as a headpiece, Monae peeled her jacket off midway up the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art to expose a sheer pannier dress made of black tulle.
“It’s a perfect threesome of me, Thom, and Karl,” Monáe tells me with a laugh on Monday afternoon, while on the way to her hotel to get ready for the evening. “A creative-orgy-threesome—that’s what I would call it.”All joking aside, the artist knew from the start she wanted her Thom Browne Met Gala look to “feel like an experience—one that takes you through the evolution of me.
Although Monáe says the story of the night was one “of evolution,” she’d like to let viewers and fans decide on any narratives beyond that. “It’s an art experience—and sometimes you want whoever’s looking at that art experience to come to their own conclusions about it,” she says.Photo by Sean Zanni/Patrick McMullan via Getty ImagesThere’s another art experience the Kansas City native has on the docket: her new album, which she said has her firmly in “music mode” at this moment .
Before any big carpet, Monáe sets intentions with her team, which she refers to as her “glamily.” “Productions and events always bring a lot of anxiety to folks—they’re designed that way,” she says. “What I say is, we’re not going to allow the bigness of it all to mess up our energy and our peace. We go into this experience wanting to have fun, and we want to walk away from it knowing that we truly did have a magnificent time.
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