Tracee Ellis Ross and Natasha Lyonne Swap Heels for Chunky Boots at A$AP Rocky’s Met Gala After Party
After walking the Met Gala 2025 red carpet in billowing looks, Tracee Ellis Ross and Natasha Lyonne changed into something more comfortable for dancing the night away at Manhattan hotspot Jean’s, where A$AP Rocky hosted his buzzy late-night after party, where guests sipped Casamigos cocktails.
Ross, whose disco diva mother Diana Ross also attended the Met Gala in a head-turning look, traded her custom sculptural Marc Jacobs suit for a comfy-yet-chic all-black after party getup. She paired dressy black shorts with a wide black leather belt and a t-shirt that read “Joy.”
She completed the look with black semi-sheer tights, shiny black combat boots that hit at the bottom of her calf and a white Marc Jacobs Lil Link Purse. She also traded her Met Gala red lip for a more neutral coral.
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Lyonne wore a big smile to pose with Ross at the afterparty, along with a crocheted red halter dress with a playfully asymmetric hem, perfect for embodying the female dance emoji. It allowed for more movement then her red carpet look, a long frilly lavender vintage-nightgown-style dress with oversized long-sleeves and a frilly neck that reached up to her cheeks. She also wore a coral lip and black tights, finishing her look with black high heel ankle booties. Her shoes featured a lace-up design, a rounded toe and an approximately four-inch block heel. Her eye-catching handbag was covered in gold and silver paillettes, adding another bold arty-ready touch to her look.
After serving as a Met Gala chair alongside fellow modern dandies Coleman Domingo, Lewis Hamilton and Pharrell Williams, Rocky brought many of the guests downtown to hip restaurant and club Jean’s for his afterparty featuring his own creative design with his agency AWGE, sponsored by Ray-Ban and Cash App. Rihanna, Sabrina Carpenter, Jenna Ortega, Spike Lee, Rickey Thompson, Maluma, Ivy Getty and others chose to celebrate with A$AP, among the many Met Gala afterparties. The stylish multi-hyphenate rapper launched his American Sabotage fashion brand during spring 2025 Paris Fashion Week last summer.
This year’s Met Gala celebrated Black fashion via the Met’s “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style” exhibit exploring dandyism over 300 years. The new Costume Institute exhibition showcases historical fashion alongside looks from over forty contemporary Black and POC designers, including Grace Wales Bonner, Telfar, Ozwald Boateng, Dapper Dan, Jeffrey Banks, Luar, Balmain’s Olivier Rousteing, Fear of God, Off-White’s Ib Kamara and Willy Chavarria. It is the Institute’s first show to focus on designers of color and the first in two decades to center men’s fashion. The lead sponsor behind the show and gala is Louis Vuitton, where the late Virgil Abloh served as creative director of men’s collections from 2018 until his untimely death in November 2021, after which he was succeeded by Pharrell Williams.
Met Gala guests got a first look at “Superfine,” which opens to the public on Saturday and runs through Oct. 26.
