A$AP Rocky isn’t a fan of typical hotel design, so he brings his own decor to personalize the space. He wants the room to feel like his own home—somewhere that truly reflects him.

Transcribed Vogue Interview

 You going to say, Brooklyn Flight and Harlem. I’m gonna go with that and I’m, and I’m gonna stick there. I’m sticking with that. That’s how we know you not from Harlem

So. What’s the deal? It’s me again. Him. ASAP Rocky. The prettiest motherfucker alive. And we had my final fitting for the Met Gala. I should have switched my glasses, man. I should have had the black ones on. You wanna switch you right up? Yeah. Because I feel like this is giving flavor. Flavor right now. Yeah.

I’m in my element. Shout out Ray Band and all that. Yeah. That’s pretty fly go. Yeah, we, in my hotel suite right now, my space, I tend to usually bring my own items that either I designed or things that I bought from other designers just to fill in the space. ’cause I feel like most hotels, I don’t like their decor.

So what I do is I supply everything for myself to make it feel like home. This is my cactus right here. This is a cactus cover that we selling. It’s a collaboration between my brand, own made and goof room, the legendary brand. Puma tool bag right here that I designed because a good friend of mines, he gave me a tool bag and he said, this is necessary for a dad.

So I felt like all dads, all moms and all people were like, she had this tool bag. You feel me? We got the vogue with yours truly. Who? The handsome fella right there, man. You let me know. I think fashion was always like my first expression. Culturally, I’m honored to be a coach here. Every year feels exciting.

My involvement this year is as crazy as a dream come true, and I’m honored that this is highlighting black excellence. I vogue. Let’s try these fits on this shit. Gotta call my boy Matt Hanson out here. Yo, Matt Grand entrance. There he go. Vogue. I would like to introduce y’all, man. Maybe he don’t even need no introduction.

For 15 years, Matthew Henson, has been A$AP’s Stylist

Vogue Interview

This is my big brother. Not only that, this is the stylist that I’ve been working with for about 15 years now. Matthew Henson. Was that Gue? You know, big Brother. Let’s walk him through these collections. Man. We have several versions of the same jacket. Rocky wanted to do something really new and original from his own brand, OG, and see in there, right?

Hold on, you gotta zoom in on that. You see that? You heard that man? Oh, I, he wanted to pay homage to New York, and one of the biggest and most well-known jackets in this is a Marmont, is a Marmont jacket, which is a really crazy outdoor technical jacket. Made a really beautiful waterfall. Corporate material, but it’s got an incredible shape.

So what we wanted to do is try to do something in a tailoring silhouette that kind of mimicked the shape of a marmont paying homage to that. And this is what we came up with. So this is the first time I’m seeing it. You’re seeing it since it came from the factory. Monts a like Harlem tradition in the wintertime.

Everybody has a marmont on or. Montclair. So we just wanted to like pay homage to Harlem. Like he said. Y’all see when you see people with the orange, lime, green, red, blue, like all those colors stemming from way back in the day, we talking about 2002, you know, all the way to now current days. Like that was our like teenage jacket.

That was our. Bear or our mountain gear or our north face. That’s what it was for us back then. Shout out to Harlem, man. Now let’s shout on these fits.

Scene one, take two. Yo. So this is one option. The oversized look. Know very elegant with the tie, with the Mur Mart. Pop the collar one time on him. Some red bottoms on the feet. Rocky said that he wanted to do something a bit different than what we’ve been doing. We’ve been doing suits for probably close to like two years now, especially since the beginning.

We were just doing everything with young designers, a lot of street wear, but I do like this dressed up moment. Embracing your fatherhood. It’s been great. And I think this blends the two because it’s not so strict in the tailoring. Mm-hmm. It’s a bit fun. The fabric is a fresco wool and the details are the same as like any other technical jacket.

Creating with Matt is. Dope. ’cause he’s like a, a blank canvas allows you to be you. I like fucking with people that’s not afraid to color outside the line. And I think the element of surprise, I think people are expecting you to wear like a certain type of brand. And I think you coming, you know, in, in awe really makes a statement, especially in the direction you’re pushing The brand.

Honors whole thing was like, make sure you are wearing a black designer this year to the Met Gala. Don’t wear anybody that’s not black. And I was like, I’m a black fucking designer. I’m gonna wear mine. She was like, yes, you should wear yours.

You guys ever have disagreements? I fight him all the time, and it’s just like he fights me. I fight him, and that’s what makes our relationship dope because we know how to fight productively. There’s certain things that I do that he doesn’t fuck with. He never liked the Bauch stuff to begin with, but he was like, you know what?

I get it. I fuck with it. You know what I’m saying? You were right about the Bauch. It was actually a functional thing at that time. Something was going on for sure, and I was kind of shocked, but you know what? It was like it worked out really well and it became a big thing. People are still doing that. We agree to disagree and shit happens.

And look, he still made it look good on that carpet at that gala, so. And we did. We can go back and forth as much as we want, but we already know it’s always gonna be. I’m saying always.

So y’all, this is the final look. This is what I’m feeling like is the one, not the two. The jacket is a wool twill with a matching wool twill vest. And then we did a custom boxer in satin with the A details matching wool TWI pant. The shoes are classic LAIs collaboration between A and Christian Luton.

And the matching tie as well too. So some of the details on the jacket are that it has an internal closure system as well as an external closure system. So usually on a technical jacket you just have like a zip up the front because that’s all you really need. Mm-hmm. But we did this a little bit more nod to Rocky sartorial side.

So we made this similar shape as the Marmont, but we made it more sartorial and did it with a double breasted closure so the jacket can close completely. The same way that a tux or a blazer. Exactly. Or close so you can get really evening with it and have this, you could open it this way. You can have the collar stand.

It’s super rev versatile. You can go whichever way that you like. He gave me that good Ralph Larin. Exactly. Now see right there. I think your dad era is, is my favorite era so far. I did love the beginning days when you were starting to figure out how the industry worked and all the traveling we were doing back then.

That was pretty insane times. I did enjoy those moments. I’m glad those moments are older. I’m a bit too old for that, so I’m really enjoying this moment. You, me both. Yeah. Yeah. That was, that was, there was some crazy days, but nah, I, I really feel like. This is your best moment. Thank you. Super proud of you, bro.

See, I’m a hold that, I think we embodied that. We, we go into that intentionally now, you know? Um, that’s just me. It’s a part of me now. So it goes hand in hand with everything moving forward. I. Since I became a Pappy

Jewelry for the night in Met Gala, I’ll be wearing Boari and Pave Nat. I got permanent grills, so I’m gonna wear grills for sure. You ain’t got, I can’t take these out. My hair will be by Shawna Miles. She’s my hairstylist. And I think we want to kind of go, we want, we want opulence. But we still wanna make sure that it still feels a little subtle and classy for the evening, and appropriate for what they call black dandyism.

When you think about Harlem, when you think about fashion, when you talk about the old days of the origin of all of this shit, right? Prohibition era 1940s film war or mid-century 1950s, civil rights movement. All of those like decades that I just mentioned, all had the same uniform. Children, babies, men and women, all dressed alike.

A$AP Rocky

They were all tailored and suited to T. That changed when, you know, more urban and more street wear became more of a like a, I think a everyday normality. And I just wanna bring back that feeling of. You know, elegance, Harlem Elegance ghetto. Fabulous. That’s what I am. That’s what I embody. Everybody want to dress like a Harlem motherfucker right now.

We talking about construction boots, all of this shit. We started, I mean, I’m not gonna say Harlem started grills, but we definitely put on for our generation. About 15 years ago with the grill, Harlem brought back the grills. Harlem brought back Jeremy Scott, we brung back. Tim’s, we brung back uptown.

Nobody was wearing Nike or none of that. And now Har just brought back Puma. Harlem Harlem. You know, I feel like it’s a New York thing, but I feel like it’s okay for you to be okay with Brooklyn being the best dressed borough. That’s all I’m trying to say. Brooklyn is. You gotta cross the bridge to see the fashion.

That’s it. That’s what I’m saying. Yeah. You a hater, bro. Yeah. Once you come over the bridge, you on something else, but you have to cross the bridge to see what’s really going on. You know what I’m saying? You going to say, Brooklyn Flyer and Harlem, I’m gonna go with that and I’m, and I’m gonna stick there.

I’m sticking with that. That’s how you know you not from Harlem.

This is for all my youngins out there. I’m gonna give y’all some tips for when you going to the Met Gala number one. When you get to the MET Gala, make sure that you don’t OD on snacks if you don’t wanna show up to the red carpet looking loaded. That’s rule number one.

Rule number two, listen, when you step out that car and you see all those fans and all those supporters and kids and people you yelling your name and shouting, embrace it all.Love it ’cause it’s all real love.

A$AP Rocky

Number three, when you get to the Met Gala, make sure you on time and not like me and my lady, number four. Number four and one of the most important rules of the MET Gala. Always, always bring your best fit. Bring what you think I. It’s going shit on the whole night. Make sure ain’t nobody fucking with you.

Make sure you ain’t looking like nobody else. Express yourself. You know, don’t be scared to do that.

This Met Gala. I’m looking forward to being there on time. Like I said, I really have a great time every time I go, so I, I just plan on having like a fucking hell of a night. And enjoying myself shits and giggles the whole night. I think we should make it normal for celebrating Black Excellence.

A$AP Rocky

Yo Vogue, that was my final fitting. I’m about to sign off. It was a pleasure having y’all here with me, but I gotta get some beauty rest so I can prepare for this. Met Gala shout outs to Vogue. Shout outs asap. Shout outs to Harlem and shout outs to life in general. Happy to be here. Peace taking off asap.

She, you see this sexy bag, my shorty got the little fatty on the tooth. You see that forehead? You know who it is.