00:00Wait, what is this?
00:01Wait, let me take a picture.
00:02Oh my God, you look so cute.
00:03Wait, hold on.
00:07Not the Mark X KFC .
00:09Wait, hold on.
00:10Yeah, just put it next to the wefts.
00:11I'm like, yes.
00:14It's so beautiful.
00:15Oh my God!
00:17KFC at the Met.
00:19KFC at the Met.
00:20Baby, you better not fret.
00:22Get some KFC at the Met.
00:24Hello, Teen Vogue.
00:25It's Alex Kintani.
00:26Today, we're going to the Met Gala.
00:28Woo!
00:29Met Gala, go Met.
00:31Go Met Gala, go Met.
00:32Hey!
00:33I just started my skin prep,
00:35and we're here in the Beyonce room with the Mark.
00:37I'm so excited.
00:38The best team is here.
00:40Carlos Nazario, Sam Bisser, Sunny Molina, Demna, Gucci,
00:44fabulousness, Met Gala, come with me.
00:55Can we play music?
00:57Is there a speaker still in here?
00:58What do you need on your Met Hype Up playlist, Alex?
01:01Oh, it's Madonna.
01:02Wait, let me put you on.
01:04It's Madonna.
01:04It's a little bit of Sophie.
01:06Anything you want some, baby.
01:08Drink it naturally.
01:10Oh, oh.
01:12We're looking camp right in the eye.
01:13Okay.
01:14We're about to be almost close to finished with nothing.
01:18We're still working.
01:19It's a lot in the works.
01:20But it's fab.
01:21It's fab.
01:22You guys, we're doing like a nice chisel, as you can see.
01:26We're doing, wait, let me take this laptop.
01:28Let me get up close and personal with you guys.
01:30So we're doing, I did this little face tape.
01:32This is what a lot of the celebrities do.
01:34So let me cosplay today.
01:36Look at that snatch.
01:36You see that?
01:37It just makes you look really youthful.
01:41So I'm just going to pull this up later, but we're doing this really beautiful kind of
01:46nudey eye, gorgeous matte skin with a little bit of matte iridescence, which I think is
01:50really fab for the theme.
01:52I think for the glam on this look, I was really trying to do something more subtle, more subdued.
01:58So I think that we're getting there, but we have a little bit more to do on the hair and
02:04a little bit more to do on the makeup.
02:31I'm doing my hair now.
02:32We just did the simple little skin moments and now we're straightening my hair and sewing
02:37some of the hair back.
02:39They're sewing my head shut right now.
02:40Too many thoughts.
02:42Too many thoughts in this brain, right babe?
02:45Too many thoughts.
02:46Silence.
02:47Gagged.
02:47Everybody's gagged.
02:48We're sewing the back right now.
02:49And then we're going to add some extensions to give it some like depth, but we're trying
02:53to keep it flat because I have a lot of hair.
02:55So like what we're going to do is like a quite brushed kind of wavy hair look.
02:59Just so you know, we got to do a little bit of shortening maintenance to then make it
03:12Gotta show them how it's done.
03:13Show them how it's done.
03:22Wait, what is this?
03:24Wait, let me take a picture.
03:25Oh my God.
03:25You look so cute.
03:26Wait, hold on.
03:29Oh, not the Mark X KFC.
03:32Wait, hold on.
03:32Yeah.
03:33Just put it next to the wefts.
03:34I'm like, yes.
03:36Don't worry.
03:37It's so beautiful.
03:38Oh my God.
03:40KFC at the Met.
03:42KFC at the Met.
03:43Baby, you better not fret.
03:45Get some KFC at the Met.
03:51We have T minus 30 minutes.
03:54Woo.
03:55Until I have to leave.
03:56We just did the little tape.
03:57See what I'm saying, you guys?
03:59Do you see the snatch?
04:00We're finishing the hair.
04:01We're in a little bit of a time crunch.
04:03So I'm sorry I haven't been updating you.
04:04But it's going to be insane.
04:06I can't wait to show you guys the dress.
04:08It's literally next level.
04:09Demna 8.
04:10So hard.
04:11So you need to go look at it right now.
04:16It was a really easy decision who I was going to go with this year.
04:18I mean, me and Demna have been working amazingly close the last year.
04:21And also, he's just so talented.
04:23And it's his first year at Gucci doing the Met.
04:26So he invited me to do it.
04:28Or I kind of asked him to do it.
04:29And he was like, yes, I would love to do it.
04:30He has a really amazing perception specifically of me and my body and the way that I work.
04:36And I think it's really beautiful because I didn't really have to say much.
04:39I mean, it was a bit of a conversation, of course, as anyone is.
04:42But me, Carlos, and him really put our brains together and made a really beautiful dress.
04:46I mean, for me, it was no effort.
04:48I think that they really understood where we were trying to go.
04:51Just about the drama, the extravagance, the textures.
04:54I think we were looking at this Botticelli painting that had a lot of art references that I was really
04:59gagged at.
05:00And I think that we got to a point quite easy.
05:02Just because it was like, again, yeah, he's so talented.
05:05It didn't really take that much.
05:06The feathers.
05:07I mean, there's multiple types of feathers.
05:09Real feathers, fake feathers.
05:11What is it?
05:11Tinsel feathers.
05:12There's a lot of really beautiful textures and colors going on.
05:14There's also this beaded sequin link that goes down off the waist that I think is really beautiful.
05:19The top is quite naked, quote unquote, which I think is really beautiful, especially for this theme to have that
05:25kind of connection to the body.
05:26So I think having that with a really beautifully dense, feathered, multicolored situation under is super beautiful.
05:33And it has this shine that I really love.
05:36So you guys are going to love it.
05:47This exhibition is all about the body and its relationship with fashion.
05:50As a model, you have a direct relationship between your body and fashion.
05:54What do you want people to take away from this?
05:56With this theme between body and fashion, there isn't one type of body that contains art.
06:01Every body, every human has art within them.
06:03Everyone has their own kind of expression when it comes to their body and art.
06:07And like what this means to people is a beautiful thing because some people are naked.
06:11Some people are covered.
06:12Some people are wearing long dresses.
06:13Some people are wearing short dresses.
06:15Like some people are wearing suits.
06:16It's like a beautiful connection to themselves.
06:18And it's an expression of yourself.
06:21But I also just hope people take gag from the theme.
06:25I just want to see you just gagging, gagging.
06:30We're almost finished.
06:31The clock is ticking.
06:32We're already late.
06:33Things are happening.
06:34But it's looking good.
06:35I'm really excited.
06:36I think we're switching my hair to a ponytail.
06:38Last minute met situation.
06:40This is kind of always what happens.
06:42You see the vision guys?
06:44Comment.
06:45You see the vision?
06:57This is going to be really, really sick.
07:00Be ready.
07:00or anything else?
07:14It's going to be ugly.
07:17Bye, go, go.
07:19So then, we go, go dugout.
07:20And this is going to be a perfect thing for you.
07:20It's a perfect thing.
07:20This is so dull here.
07:23I love you.
07:25I love you.
07:27I love you, too.
07:29I love him.
07:30I love you.
07:30Oh my god, Alex!
07:33Come forward a little bit.
07:34Right there, right there, Alex.
07:36It's amazing.
07:39Alex, straight ahead, Alex.
07:41Straight ahead, Alex.
07:44Magnifique, right ahead.
07:45Alex, who are you wearing?
07:50So, you guys have been asking me
07:52what I have done to prepare
07:55what I've not done to prepare.
07:56I think the most important thing about the Met Gala
07:58is being with the right people and having fun.
08:00And I think that that's really what makes the biggest difference.
08:02Because at the end of the day, the main event
08:04is just the carpet. And I think if you feel the best
08:06and you have the best people around you,
08:08you'll look the best.
08:11Thank you, folks. You look the best.
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