Ayo Edebiri's Dad & Grandfather Inspired Her Dandy Met Gala Look

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Ayo Edebiri stops to talk with Ego Nwodim and Teyana Taylor about how her family inspired her look for Met Gala 2025—Superfine: Tailoring Black Style

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00:00I'm here with my girl Ayo Debrie.

00:02Ayo!

00:03My girls.

00:04My girls.

00:05Incredible.

00:06Hold on before we start anything.

00:07Yes.

00:08Oh, yeah.

00:09And we're going to give a little pee.

00:10Give a little pee.

00:11Give a little pee.

00:12Give a little mule.

00:13Shoo cam.

00:14Are we in the Y?

00:15That's okay.

00:16Shoo cam back to the Y.

00:17Shoo cam back to the Y.

00:18Shoo cam back to the Y.

00:19Yeah.

00:20Okay.

00:21Yes.

00:22Yes.

00:23You look fabulous Ayo.

00:25A little boop boop boop boop boop boop boop boop boop boop boop boop boop.

00:29So Spanish.

00:30You know what I mean.

00:31Okay.

00:32The diaspora tonight.

00:34What was your inspiration for tonight's look?

00:35Um, it started I just was thinking about my connections to what dandyism means to me.

00:40And some of the dandiest men of my life are in my family.

00:44And this is inspired by my dad, my grandfather.

00:48And then you know just tailoring.

00:51And the look was made by Max Davis at Ferragamos.

00:54at Ferragamos. We're talking about being black, being in the diaspora, and like what could

01:00our angle be? So yeah, we have this. We have this Edo little tribute.

01:05I really did. Didn't leave us anything. I'm hungry.

01:09Come on. Not no. Uh-uh. You two are not hungry. Y'all eating. We're all greedy tonight. We

01:15are all greedy. Everybody's being greedy.

01:17Everybody's all a greedy group.

01:18I would say so. Well, okay, what's more nerve wracking? Being here at the Met Gala, having

01:22to do the carpet or being at SNL? Being here at the Met Gala, having to do the carpet.

01:26Okay, facts. I say, I'm going to go. No, listen. I'm going to agree.

01:29Yeah. It's like different because I think like with the show, it's like you can, you understand

01:35the groove a little bit. You have, at least when you're a host, you have a week to kind

01:41of at least acclimate. And here you're like, time to acclimate. And then you blink and then

01:44you're like, I'm up the stairs. Oh, it's 4 a.m. Okay. It's over. Yeah. That's cool.

01:49Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But still, still exciting. Well, Aya, you make it look easy,

01:54girl. You really do. You really do. You do. You make it look like, girl. Not from the

01:58two of you. This is crazy. I need some details. I need some details. Real quick. Real quick.

02:04Oh, yes. We got some David Herman knowing that you can. We got Marc Jacobs on the feet.

02:09Oh, beautiful. We're going to feed. We're going to feed. We're going to feed.

02:13Shoe cam. Shoe cam. Shoe cam. There's no shoe cam. Beggy for a shoe cam. It's going to be

02:20full body. It's going to be a wide. See, because you're making us get closer and closer to the

02:24margaritas. You know what? Get your tail. I want a margarita. You know what? No, I'm going to see

02:28because you got us acting up and we still got a whole other hour left. Go kill it. We love

02:34you. We enjoy you. Thank you.

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