Lewis Hamilton on His Black History-Inspired Met Look

My good friend, Lewis Hamilton

in the house here at vogue.com live.

How are you feeling tonight?

I'm feeling amazing. How are you?

[Ashley] I'm feeling good.

Now that you're here, I'm feeling even better.

Ah. [Ashley laughs]

You look amazing too. Thank you, so are you.

What are you wearing? Yes.

Yeah. What about this jewelry?

It's Burberry. Wow.

It's Burberry. Talk to us-

Daniel Lee. Talk about the layers.

Well, what I love about the Met

and what Anna does with the Met is they're able

to really deep dive into like the theme.

And so, I did a lot of research

and I came across this 18th-century gardener that,

through slavery times, came over from Africa to Wales

and became the first Black gardener in Wales.

Oh wow.

And so through adversity and through,

you know, really triumphed and so that's really

where the inspirations come from.

And then inside, we found this...

I've also got like a [indistinct].

[Ashley] Here I can hold your mic for you.

Yeah, right here- Huh?

Is a poem from a guy called Alex Wharton

who wrote a poem, a Black poet in England as well.

So you brought this to Daniel Lee.

So I just read, brought it to Daniel Lee

and his team were incredible.

So have to say a big thank you to Daniel

and his whole incredible team.

And this isn't your first Met. What number are we on?

I think it's number five maybe.

Oh yeah. Feel good? Not much as you.

Number five. Well,

no, I think I'm five too.

These like that the thorns here really

to show like the pain through that slavery trade time-

Wow. You know, so...

[Ashley] Wow. I love the depth.

I try to get in deep with it.

Lewis, you are deep though.

You're so poetic. Yeah, you are.

And it's always wonderful when someone takes the theme

so seriously- Seriously.

And makes it meaningful.

Well, you have to, you have to get

into character- Yeah.

And you know how it is.

We got great people in the background

that helping us, so- Mm-hmm.

Eric McNeal helped me put this together.

I love Eric.

Eric performs. Eric always slays.

So yeah. Yeah.

And I'm really excited to be back

'cause I haven't been here for two years.

You've been busy.

I was racing yesterday, so.

Were you racing yesterday?

He was at Miami this morning?

Yeah. What?

Yeah. Wow.

So grateful. I can make it.

You're a hard worker.

Well, you here representing racing, aren't you?

Kind of... [all laughing]

I'm not really. No, not yet. [laughs]

Oh, I love seeing you. Thank you.

Can't wait to see you inside.

Can't wait. Yes.

[Lewis] Thank you so much for having me.

Bye, Lewis. See you, guys.