Damson Idris on What It Took to Pull Off the Met Gala 2025’s Biggest Red-Carpet Reveal

“It makes me feel like I’m walking with the DNA of my forefathers,” actor Damson Idris tells Vanity Fair of this year’s Met Gala theme. “When you see a dandy, you see history, but at the same time, you see innovation. You see confidence, but at the same you see vulnerability. And you see everything that that person and the culture has been through. It was the suits that my mother put me in for my birthday, or seeing Sidney Poitier in Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner—and then…