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Leslie Odom Jr. attends The 2022 Met Gala Celebrating “In America: An Anthology of Fashion” at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 02, 2022 in New York City.  Odom wears a Fendi Mens ensemble with fur brooch and Mary Jane shoes.

With a theme as compelling as “In America: An Anthology of Fashion,” there was as much speculation around this year’s Met Gala performance as there was intrigue about what guests would wear on the red carpet. Who could possibly embody this country’s music legacy and its ties to fashion within the event’s typical three-song set? The answer, of course, was Lenny Kravitz, who emerged onto the stage in the Temple of Dendur clad in a custom-designed yellow snakeskin Chrome Hearts look, belting out such homegrown hits as “Are You Gonna Go My Way” and “Fly Away.” And because there would be no Lenny Kravitz without Elvis Presley, Kacey Musgraves—who swapped her Prada red-carpet gown for an archival Rodarte dress—opened for Kravitz with her cover of Presley’s 1961 ballad, “Can’t Help Falling in Love,” from the soundtrack of Baz Luhrmann’s upcoming Elvis biopic, due to arrive in theaters this June.

But before the film’s stars, Austin Butler and Olivia DeJonge, danced along to Kravitz’s encore performance of “American Woman” (obviously), Broadway star Leslie Odom Jr. serenaded guests in custom Bode as a troupe of 40 dancers performed an Andy Blankenbuehler–choreographed montage in tribute to the movement traditions birthed across the great stages of New York City—and the beauty looks that have helped cement them into the cultural canon.


“We’re kind of starting with this sort of vaudeville-y, Louise Brooks, super-gellacked, wig-frontal thing,” hairstylist Lucas Wilson said before the performance, detailing a series of bob-like headpieces he shaped with Bumble and Bumble’s Strong Finish Firm-Hold Hairspray—one of three distinct looks he created for the evening. While snipping a shimmering black wig into a similar blunt shape, sending streams of tinsel onto the floor, Wilson sculpted a separate tribute to the Roaring Twenties via sleek finger waves he set with Bumble and Bumble’s Bb Gel.

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Photographed by Flo Ngala

Born in Johnson City, Tennessee, Wilson—who moved to New York to work as a producer after graduating from the Savannah College of Art & Design, and before he fell in love with hair—is as much a part of the ever evolving American fashion narrative as the Charles James gowns that Martin Scorsese styled in the museum’s Frank Lloyd Wright room. After pivoting to beauty school and working his way up Bumble and Bumble’s education ranks, Wilson’s work has regularly graced the cover of Vogue, as well as other publications. “People come here from all over the world,” he noted of what makes America particularly fertile ground for artists. “And each of them has an experience that is so different, and that lends itself to endless sources of inspiration.”

Makeup artist Raisa Flowers is one of those people. “I’m a first-generation American. My mom is from Barbados, my Dad is from Guyana, but they came to America to figure out their dreams and stuff like that,” said Flowers, who grew up in Mount Vernon, New York. Flowers, who received her informal beauty education in Manhattan’s club scene, fell in love with makeup when she was a teenager. “I’ve been playing with makeup since I was 13,” she revealed while blending silver, pink and purple pigments from MAC Cosmetics Art Library: It’s Designer Eye Palette into a theatrical look replete with thin, Clara Bow brows and two rows of lashes; her own Vaudeville tribute featured ombré shades of red eye shadow and a centralized stamp of oxblood lipstick.

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Courtesy of Lucas Wilson

Leslie odom jr met gala 2022

As Flowers wielded MAC’s MacStack Mascara, working the rich black pigment into the dancers’ lash lines—“I like to blend the fake lashes with mascara to make them extra-long,” she said—her handiwork, which took off on Instagram, was as much a demonstration of her skills as a return to her roots. “I would go with my mom to the Macy’s at the CrossCounty Mall, straight to the MAC counter,” she explained—a familiar origin story. “So many of the world’s greatest makeup artists got their start at a MAC counter,” confirms Drew Elliot, MAC’s global creative director. “Their artistry and creativity know no bounds,” he adds, offering an apt description of the visual, cross-medium mastery on display throughout the museum last night.

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