How Madonna’s Haider Ackermann for Tom Ford Met Gala Look Came Together in Just 3 Weeks

On Monday, Madonna made her return to the Met Gala after a seven-year hiatus. For this year’s theme of “tailored for you,” Madonna wore a Tom Ford by Haider Ackermann: a cream double-breasted tuxedo in peached silk, complete with a crisp white piqué plastron shirt paired with a white piqué bow tie. The look was finished off with jewels by Diamonds Direct. It almost wasn’t even a reality, says Madonna’s stylist Rita Melssen.  “She actually wasn’t going to go, it wasn’t even really on her radar. And then someone brought it up to her, and of course she was like, ‘this is an incredible theme and I want to support and I want to show up,” Melssen says. “We did some really deep, deep dives, deep research, got really into Black dandy over the decades. What did that look like from the 1800s into the 2000s and all the different iterations and versions of it. Her and I really just sat down. We shared feedback, we shared images. It was a really collaborative process between the both of us.” Melssen felt there were any number of directions they could go in when it came to a designer to work with, until someone sent

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