Inside Lisa’s Sculptural Met Gala Look

Can I touch it?

[mellow music] [car horns honking]

Hi, I'm Lisa and this is my final fitting for the Met Gala.

[Lisa giggles]

[Lisa gasps]

[chuckles] Oh, my God.

[Lisa gasps]

Hello, by the way.

[both laughing]

Meeting him for the first time, he's like warm-hearted.

I feel like I know him such a long time.

The first time she wore my pieces

was maybe a good five, six years ago.

After all these years, we've been dressing her.

This feels very full circle, and yeah, she's incredible.

What's the first thing that popped into my head

when I first saw the look?

It's incredible.

It's art.

But it's my hands, my arms. [laughs]

The theme for Met this year

is around this big picture of art.

And I think so many people are going

to do what their rendition of the theme is,

but Robert is like the epitome of art,

and construction, and the female body.

I knew he was the guy that we should go with.

[Robert] Get it on the shoulder.

There you go.

You can feel...

How does it feel? [chuckles]

[Lisa] Okay.

Okay. Yeah, okay, okay.

Okay. [Robert laughs]

All right. [Lisa laughs]

Is it heavy?

So we had a 3D scan done of Lisa's body.

And the really special thing,

how Robert manipulated the arms,

it feels very poetic to her Thai background

and the Thai dance moves that they will do

and just this like beautiful poetry of fashion

and choreography that is just so Lisa.

That makes it even more special.

'Cause sometimes these girls will just put on a piece of art

to put on a piece of art, right?

But this, at the core, feels like her.

Her love for where she's from, Thailand, is just like,

it makes it so perfect.

I am nervous for tomorrow

because my extra arms is really heavy. [laughs]

He said it's 1.8 kilo, but I don't think so.

I think it's heavier than that.

But I have to fight through it

'cause the concept is Costume Art,

so it's really nice to have me as an art on the carpet.

Yeah, I'm just so excited to see everyone

'cause it's my second Met.

For me, I'm a maximalist.

I really love a lot of things

to just make it feel like a treasure box kind of.

But on Lisa, we've kept it a little bit more delicate.

There's obviously the big sapphire necklace

that we both love,

but on the arms, that's where the more is more is.

I think her we're keeping a little bit more subtle

because it's about the look and her beauty,

but with the secondary part of arms,

it's like stack the shit out of this Bulgari.

And it just makes it feel even more special and iconic.

It's already heavy,

so you know- I'm like,

are you gaslighting me now? Adding a little more

is fine. [Brett laughs]

[Attendant] What's another 30 carats?

Just- Yeah.

I have this amazing glassblower.

I wanted to do a bag that looked like ice.

I grew up in Missouri in like a really small town,

so when winters came,

the ice would just drip down our house and it's so cool.

It's stuff like this that just are like little cherries

on top of already perfect couture.

[mellow music]

The most exciting for tomorrow?

Uh, [laughs]

I don't know, it's just the red carpet.

I really want to make it work.

I'm scared to you know?

[chuckles] Yeah, I don't wanna trip tomorrow, so.

Let's grab both sides,

the underskirt. And then you take

a few step back, right? Do you want me

to try to walk? So yeah, let's go, let's go.

Yeah, just give it a walk and see how she feels.

[Lisa] Oh, my god.

I'm doing a practice right now?

Okay, let's put the veil- Yeah.

[Brett] Back on.

Working out.

[Brett laughs]

It's heavy, guys.

Yeah. With help-

[Lisa] Maybe I need a different shoes.

[Brett] Which if this is the case,

we might need to look at shortening it a bit

'cause they are shortening. No, I feel like the heels

is not gonna help me balance it.

[Brett] These?

No, the thin.

I need the thicker.

[Brett] Maybe if you're feeling good with the top part,

let's take the arms off.

Yes.

And let's take them down. [Robert laughs]

Take them, please.

We'll try these just to see,

and then we'll work on thickening out a heel.

Mm-hmm. And we'll grab other options

so it's not just focused here. Mm-hmm.

The dress is amazing,

but there's little perfecting things that we need to do.

But we have a few hours, basically,

to figure it out before tomorrow.

I think the only other thing is I do wanna add a layer

of this white mesh

to the skirt as well. Yes, exactly.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Brett] Or do some beading around here

to hide the seam a little.

We're gonna take this off here.

[Robert] Yup.

We're gonna add a little bit into the arms and the elbows

and try to take the arms up a little bit.

[Robert] We should do that.

I would do about like a centimeter.

Yeah. That's fine, just-

[Robert] That will be fine.

I am maybe a little nervous about something.

It's for a stylist and a creative,

to not be able to be with your artist on a carpet

is always so hard because I force myself

on every other carpet to make sure things are good.

But Met, you can't do that.

I've tried and I've gotten yelled at.

So this year, I am putting a lot of hope

into our very handsome male handlers.

I have a video for them to show how to take the arms off.

The veil, I've sent a voice note really talking them through

how to beautifully take the veil off,

avoiding her face, avoiding the hair,

to really try to make it look

like it's almost this choreographed piece.

That's always gonna be something I have to do.

Until the second that they're on the carpet

and I no longer can reach them,

there's always something you can do.

Even a word of encouragement, you know?

Sometimes you hold an artist and say like,

You look incredible.

We got this.

That will be always the last thing I do

just to make sure that we're enjoying this moment together.

[mellow music]

Okay, Vogue, wish me luck.

Bye. See ya.

Thank you, thank you. Making art.

Thank you, thank you.

No, thank you, baby. Oh.

Yeah, thank you. They see us, right,

together, right?

All right, shall we- So we're gonna see

that piece. We're having her.