My First Met: Ed Sheeran

Well, I'll always remember this as my first Met.

Yeah.

Well 'cause it is your first-

Can I come next year?

Can I just come every year? Yes.

You're only allowed to come with me.

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I've known Stella, God, I don't know,

maybe eight, nine years.

Every now and then she'll like send a jacket or whatever.

And then for this next album campaign that I'm going into,

we're sort of doing some clothes for videos

and that's where the conversation came up.

I went in for a fitting and she was just like,

Come to the Met.

'Cause I used to just wear hoodies and just wear jeans

and just wear Jordans.

And then I sort of came out with a new album in 2021

and I just kind of enjoyed coming out of my shell

for one night only and wearing something

that I would never usually wear.

And that's sort of what today is.

You'll see the suit and it is definitely not something

that I would have in my wardrobe regularly,

but it's quite fun to do for one night.

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How do I do my hair?

[Speaker] Yeah.

I usually, whatever hotel I'm in,

I use the shampoo and the conditioner.

[Speaker] And that's it.

Yep.

You get fitted for these things like a month out

and then you're like, you go to New York for a week

and eat loads of pasta and you're like, is it gonna fit?

It's more the shoes I'm worried about.

They're not like, obviously as comfortable

as wearing Jordan's.

Actually, Jordan's are usually what I would wear

with a suit.

If you're gonna spend an entire evening in something,

you wanna be like comfortable.

So, I name dropped it in a song

and yeah, they sent me like a lifetime supply

and that was 14 years ago.

Check it out.

Bling.

These are diamond cuff links, yeah.

Borrowed though.

These aren't just sitting in my drawer at home.

I feel like I'm about to go to my first Met

and have a memorable evening.

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The city...

It feels kind of...

Feels like a Monday.

So this is Stella McCartney for Vogue.

I'm Ed Sheeran and we are doing our first Met together.

I'm Stella's date for the evening.

He's a Met virgin.

Met virgin.

Popping the cherry tonight. Yeah.

When was your first Met?

Oh, my first met was in 1920 with Liv Tyler

and I went down to the East Village in New York

about four hours before the Met

and I took some wife beaters

and I got this guy to custom make them

and put rock royalty on them.

Wow.

And it's history.

The rest is history, right, Vogue?

Was that the first Met?

That was my first Met.

I don't think it was the first Met.

No, no, I'm not that old.

What was the first met?

Was it the same vibe though?

It's obviously got more like crazy.

Oh yeah, it was really low-fi.

I went to pick up my friend Liv Tyler,

and, well, I mean I got my outfit made downtown

four hours before the Met,

so that's kind of your answer.

Me too actually.

Yeah, exactly.

In the garment district.

And I went and picked her up

and we both didn't know what we were going to.

I was like, Oh, Anna's invited me to this thing.

And she was like, Oh, what is it?

I was like, Let's just go, have fun.

And I went to pick her up and I remember going into her room

and I was like, What is happening?

And she had hair and makeup

and I was like, What are you doing?

Oh, you thought it was just like-

Who are those people?

You're going for dinner or something.

I literally just went wah wah wah.

I mean, you can see the pictures,

you can see it's horrible.

Like, I've cut my own hair.

Like I am like self done.

[Ed] They're gonna cut them in right now.

Yeah.

I'm self done and Liv's like got hair and makeup.

Well, Ed inspired the fit.

Everything about this was inspired by Ed.

Matching the eyes, obviously.

Redhead to redhead, what can I say?

Honky.

Home and away.

And he's wearing the coolest thing.

I'll tell you what.

Ed has got on lab grown diamonds, so,

and I'm wearing a lab grown diamond.

So basically all of my gang are wearing lab grown diamonds,

which is like really cool and sustainable and innovative.

Thanks for having us.

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Right, Vogue, thank you for getting ready with me

for my first ever Met gala and I am gonna go now.

And you are not.

See you in a bit.

I think you will go though 'cause it is

technically your company who's doing it.

So see you there.

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