When Myha’la was a child, she desperately craved a pair of Timberland boots. “Anybody who was cool—each single particular person in hip hop—was carrying them within the early aughts,” the actor tells Vogue. Her mom, Susan, an avid thrifter, discovered her a secondhand pair. “They had been black, so I used to be satisfied that they had been knockoffs,” she recollects with fun. “I stated, ‘I received’t do it. I can’t disrespect Timberlands like that by getting your crusty secondhand knockoffs. I’ll work my ass off till I get my very own.’ And that day by no means got here.”
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Lopez’s last sketch for Myha’la.Courtesy of Luar
However that day lastly arrived final evening on the 2025 Met Gala. The Industry breakout star hit the carpet in a pair of customized Timberlands designed by Luar’s Raul Lopez, who original each of their seems for the night. These aren’t the usual work boots Myha’la grew up coveting, although. The actor wore a pair of thigh-high lace-up Timbs within the signature wheat colour, rendered in moiré.
Lopez dressed Myha’la in a century-spanning homage to Black dandyism. “I wished to reference the ’20s and the ’60s, however extra the 1520s and 1560s,” Lopez says. After the 2018 Met Gala “Heavenly Our bodies: Trend and the Catholic Creativeness,” the designer started to think about how he would have interpreted the theme, gathering imagery of Saint Maurice and Black Tudors. Now, seven years later, he’s lastly ready to make use of his analysis in his bespoke search for Myha’la. “I wished her to really feel like a queen of that period,” he says.
However this was no stereotypical Tudor look. Lopez introduced his concepts into the current period with up to date supplies and gildings. The grey Italian wool minidress, outfitted with zippers and a diamanté underlay, nods to a extra trendy dandyism that Lopez recollects from his childhood. “I’m from New York, so you might have the sweatsuit dandies—the dudes which might be within the sweatsuits and are dressed head-to-toe with the equipment,” Lopez says.
For Myha’la, the historic references assist her assume a personality for the evening (or a minimum of the carpet). “I used to be so and excited by the lens by which [Raul] was experiencing this theme,” she says. “For me, as an actor, it offers me a personality to play.” She provides: “It looks like I’ll be amongst household, in order that eases my nerves. However I actually couldn’t be extra excited.”
The particular person she’s most excited to share the expertise with? Her mother. “It’s so particular,” she says, “particularly as a result of my love and adoration and reverence for trend actually got here from her.”
Right here, Myha’la takes Vogue alongside as she will get prepared for the 2025 Met Gala.
