Inside Alia Bhatt's First Met Gala _ Vogue

You know what they say about rain in Met Gala, right? It's good luck? No, they always say it stops for Anna. So let's see if it happens or not. Don't open your eyes. You're being very filmy right now. No, no, really. This is like a filmy moment. Ta-da! I think I'm going to cry. Oh my God! Why? I'm emotional. This is literally how we imagined it. I know. Did you say 100,000? Yeah, 100,000. Different pearls. Embroidery is done in India. Fabric is from France. Made in New York. So this is a well-traveled... It's a well-traveled... Global, global gown. It's a global gown. It's too pretty. I don't want to do it. I don't want to stare at it forever. This is the carpet, okay? So we get off here. Photographers are here. No, no, one second. This is the carpet. I'm photographer line one. Photographer line two. This is the carpet. Okay, so you're coming from there. You're waiting in line. So they'll call you. You're next. So you come here. Prabha fluffs her dress. So she looks the best, prettiest. The dress looks amazing. Then I move. Then you take a picture. Right here. From here or here. Then you move a little bit forward. Center, okay. You start taking the picture. You give the front picture, back picture, side picture, all of that, okay? So actually, you and I have been talking about this for quite some time. I mean, since... Since, I think for the past three years, you've been like sending me feelers being like, let's do it, let's do it. Because, you know, I've always been like, do you want to do it? Yeah. That's the brilliance of you is that you know your instincts. You know when it's the right time. You know? And if you felt it, you were just like, all right, let's do it. I was just like, yes! Whatever you do, do it with your heart. Which means? Do whatever you want, but do it with your heart. Yeah, I agree. So now with our hearts, should we go try this dress on? It's very personal for me, this particular moment. We've talked about this for a very long time, Alia and I. This dress, to me, signifies just this beautiful, pure start in the international world. And you know, I kept on telling her, she's a Met Virgin. You know? So I was like, what, let's just go with white. The Chanel brides are the most iconic brides. You know, us South Asians, you know, we've always been here. But often, you know, we felt that we didn't either get the mic or the table or any platform. So like, now to be embraced and not looked upon as a, let's say, heritage month entertainment, but looked upon as a fabric of the society and celebrated like that, and seen like that, it feels really great. Trying to walk. Cool. Can somebody just like, lift me up and place me on the carpet now from here? I mean, I'm strong, but not that strong. Stepping into your second layer of meringue. So I'm actually feeling very comfortable. That's all I want to hear. As a designer, that's all you want to hear. Comfort is key because otherwise it's just... Like the jeans and T-shirt, huh? Don't push it so far. Jeans and T-shirt. Pushed it a bit better. The details of it, like the smaller beads here, right, and then, you know, it gives you even more angle. And the embroidery was done in India. I know. So amazing. I know. And look at, it feels like a waterfall, you know. Mumbai to the Met. Yeah, Mumbai. Yeah. Mumbai to the Met, exactly. Mumbai to the Met. Yeah. So I have to say, I woke up quite, like, oh, like I'm an exam. So definitely a lot of nerves, but, you know, I'm a classic Piscean, so I'm very good at blocking my feelings out right to the very end and like the last moment. We are basically going to just make Alia look like Alia. I know, I mean, people are expecting, I mean, we've also gotten messages like, you're going to kill it, edgy, and I don't know what, not that I'm like, oh my God, there's too much pressure. But honestly, I just want Alia to look like herself, but because I think she's stunning. I'm definitely feeling very romantic, so I was like, Punnu, blush, blush, like go for the blush, like I should be like a ball of blush. You know, like just like cheeks and like nose and like, like ears, like everything should just be pink and like romantic. When you talk about, like, one of the major events in the year, globally, like, one of the first events that will come to your mind is the Met Gala. And of course, we've been looking at images every year, you're like, okay, what's the theme? What's everyone going to wear? So in terms of like, attention and focus and excitement, like I can see the energy on the street. It is very exciting, but I will definitely, like, I can tell you when I'm stepping out of that splinter van like, I'm going to feel like a little wobble in my knee. It's not going to be really nice because I have a very big dress and a very high shoe. That nervousness is going to really hit me. Even when I was getting married, for example, I think I was like, like this, you know, up until the last minute and there was the last moment where suddenly I was like, the thing is, again, I'm so socially awkward and so socially shy. It's very strange how I'm an actor and I'm like literally in the movie business that requires you to be, you know, center stage, spotlight, being like whatever. Priyanka and I were talking about it yesterday and she's like, you get in and you find us. I'm like, okay, definitely, because you're going to have to take me to the bathroom. I'm not going to be able to go by myself. Honestly, I feel really grateful to be here. I feel very happy. I feel very honored. Like today, there was a whole list that came out of the people that are attending. And I don't know whether it's a real list or a fake list, but it was so nice to see my name there on it, just below, like above Ben Affleck, who I am a huge fan of. And then I was like, oh my God, Justin Bieber's coming. I'm a big Bieber fan. So this is the longest I've been away from my daughter, Raha, and she's almost six months now and I've only been away from her for like 24 hours before she was born. And now it's almost going to be like four days and I get a couple of seconds like video call her as soon as I wake up. So see, it's lifting from the side. The whole purpose was for the can to fit out the back. Can you call Anthony? Yeah. The weight of this is pushing it in. The second pedicure is inside. But he's on his way up, yeah? Yeah. He's stuck in the elevator. Just get yourself up here. I just took the stairs. Wow. Anthony, Okay, take a beat. Take a beat. How many flights did you run, Anthony? Fifteen. Wow. Do you want half Anthony, half of Raha? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Get under there, Here, let me take a coat. Maybe it was too low. It was. Ah. Okay, this is much better. Sideways. I love the sideways. Guys, we need to step back. We're trying to get a good shot. Everybody needs to move back. You know? I don't like that. Back out.