- I don't care what anybody says.
This is a competition, okay?
The Met Gala, this is a fucking competition.
And we're going number one.
[hip hop music]
[relaxing music]
- [Joshua] That's a good
position right there. - Think about
this here more and more. - Yeah, 'cause then it goes.
[designers chattering faintly]
We're only a few days away from the Met
and we're on the final stages
of completing Cardi B's Met Gala dress.
- This dress pays tribute to the American hip hop culture
and to Gianni and Donatella Versace
who first brought it into the high fashion.
- Both Cardi B and Donatella share a similar sense
of over-the-top glamor and sense of humor.
So it's the perfect collaboration.
In reflection to this year's Met Gala theme,
the gilded age,
we chose to make something super metallic
in over the top gold
as a reflection of the attitude of that time
where it was all about success and new opulence.
- This dress is like a second skin of jewelry.
We create a senior tur bustier with a very snatched waste
and we carry it with a layer of embroidered tulle.
On top of that, we create this jewelry net,
created a hand by hand by Italian artisans
in a gold Galvanic.
In total, it's almost one kilometers of chains and jewelry.
- Here on a mannequin, you can see the craft of it
but once, you know, the Cardi B persona enters
into the dress, that's when like you create the vision.
Super sexy, super amazing, super glamorous.
Look at me. Let's look at her.
It's gonna be amazing.
[orchestral music]
- Hi. Hi!
Wow.
Oh yeah.
Well let's put it on.
[everyone laughing]
I'm ready.
Come on, let's go.
I'm hungry too. Shit.
Maybe if it's like this.
- [Joshua] We could make it 18.
[designers chattering faintly]
- [Cardi B] Lemme see, lemme see, lemme see,
lemme see, lemme see.
- [Joshua] See if this first set will.
- [Cardi B] I feel like we could be,
we could get a little smaller in the waist.
- [Joshua] Really?
- I want deaths. I want ribs taken out.
[everyone laughing]
- [Woman] Hi. How are you?
- You are adorable.
Look at you. That neckline.
- Yeah. Yeah. - The dress is
insane on you.
- Thank you. - Oh my God.
Stunning.
I gotta practice my pose. Hold on.
- Oh, this I love the sides of the nail.
This is more Cardi.
I mean, can you breathe?
Oh, it's optional?
- No, no, but that's the thing I could breathe.
- That's no problem.
No. So it needs to be tighter.
You have to feel like you cannot breathe.
That's the moment. It's really good the dress.
It's really good.
- Here's the thing. Right?
Let me tell ya some right?
This is gilded glamor.
A lot of people getting it confused with like the era.
So I think a lot of people want
like to see like Marie Antoinette.
But it's glamor and this is just like...
- [Donatella] This is put together with a team, I mean.
- Yeah.
- You're having the glamor.
- And it's me. And it's just Versace like.
Let's go big. - It's you.
- Let's do the impossible.
- You go big or you stay home, right?
- Yes. Either go big or stay home.
I'm staying.
And this is just the dress.
Everybody bring me the gloves, bring the gloves.
Bring the gloves, bring the chains,
bring the excitement, bring the everything
- Bring a necklace please.
It not enough here.
Too simple. [laughs]
[designers chattering faintly]
- [Joshua] That should be dead center.
- [Donatella] Yeah, we move it to be straight.
- Oh yeah. Okay.
- It's a position. We go a little bit higher.
- I was very like indecisive
of how I wanted to do this year.
You know, I usually go really big
with like a really big train or a like puff under.
But I feel like this time, I just feel
like I want it clean cut, but a lot.
Because it's never simple.
Yeah. It's never simple.
Versace's never simple.
It's always like.
- All the chain and then.
So I think it's one of the longest brands
we took in my career to make, but it's worth it.
- I don't think people always notice the detail.
Like there's a very fine detailed dress.
Like, like, come here, come here, come here.
Look at the gloves though.
A heavy glove like this
with all these details for it not to slide down.
Trust me.
It's not as easy as people think it is.
[Cardi B singing]
- [Donatella] You look amazing.
So proud of you.
- Thank you. - Wow.
- I love the back.
Even if you don't go see it, but it's amazing.
Are you looking the back, from the back?
- I know it's so sexy.
- So sexy.
- I look good.
- You look amazing. - Yes.
- That's it.
I'm giving regal.
I'm giving grown woman.
I feel like today, I like a grown woman.
And you know, I've been a grown woman for a minute now
but I don't know what it is,
I just feel like this year,
that's how I've been feeling about myself too.
Like I'm a grown ass woman.
I got two kids.
I got so much responsibilities.
and I ain't got time for nobody's shit.
No bullshit.
You look beautiful.
For some reason you always get butterfly on this day.
No matter how good the outfit is,
no matter how good your team is.
Happy birthday.
But once you get to that carpet and everything is perfect.
It's just, it's like if you passed a test.
[piano music]
[hip hop music]