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Shah Rukh Khan is among the world’s most well-known males. And but, strutting down the Met Gala carpet nonetheless gave the Bollywood star jitters.
Khan, referred to as SRK to followers, made his Met debut in understated type, donning a floor-length black wool coat designed by Indian designer Sabyasachi Mukherjee. The look was complemented with a number of daring equipment, together with a big glowing “K” dangling from a sequence and a gem-encrusted tiger head cane.
To fight his nerves, maybe — Khan instructed Vogue livestream hosts Ego Nwodim and Teyana Taylor that he’s “very shy” and usually skips crimson carpets — he requested Mukherjee to stay to his type staples.
“I told Sabya I only wear black and white, but what we designed for me is what I’m most comfortable in,” he stated. “That’s how I think it should be.”
The star of greater than 100 motion pictures, Khan’s arrival on the Met Gala carpet has been a very long time coming. But Mukherjee stated that it was becoming that Khan debuts the identical yr the occasion celebrates Black designers and the legacy of Black dandyism, a trend motion as steeped in politics as it’s in impeccable type.
“When you get a man like this on the red carpet, especially when it’s ‘Black dandy,’ representation is the most important thing,” Mukherjee stated. “We wanted to represent Shah Rukh Khan as Shah Rukh Khan, and nobody else.”
Mukherjee, too, is a worldwide famous person: His label Sabyasachi’s glamorous gowns and saris recurrently seem on Bollywood stars, and earlier this yr he stated he needs to make Sabyasachi “India’s first global luxury brand.” He just lately celebrated his label’s twenty fifth anniversary, full with a massive runway show with over 150 seems influenced by his West Bengal upbringing.
Joining Khan as a first-time Met attendee was one other star of Indian cinema: Diljit Dosanjh, an musician and actor revered for his work in Punjabi music and movie. Like a number of celebrities this yr, the performer wore a protracted cape, however his was embroidered with a map of Punjab. Nepali-American designer Prabal Gurung created his bejeweled maharaja-inspired ensemble, the New York Times reported.