Met Gala Co-Chairs Pharrell, A$AP Rocky, Colman Domingo, and Lewis Hamilton are Vogue’s May Cover Stars!
The Run-Through with Vogue
Vogue
4.2 • 724 Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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In honor of the upcoming Met Gala, Vogue unveiled four special covers for its May 2025 issue, each featuring one of this year’s co-chairs: A$AP Rocky, Colman Domingo, Lewis Hamilton, and Pharrell Williams. On this Thursday’s episode of The Run-Through, the writers behind the stories—Vogue’s digital style director, Leah Faye Cooper; features editor Marley Marius; and our very own Chioma Nnadi—joined Chloe to share how each one came to be. From playing Crazy Eights with A$AP Rocky at Soho House to previewing new music in Pharrell’s multi-use studio and everything that was left on the cutting room floor, get the inside scoop right here!
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of The Run Through is brought to you by eBay. |
| 0:03.7 | I'm Arden Fanning Andrews, Vogue's Beauty Editor at Large. |
| 0:06.9 | Everyone's talking about tassels right now, and that's the moment that I end up typing it into eBay. |
| 0:11.4 | I found the perfect vintage triple chain belt with golden tassels, and it just looks so elegant, timeless, and it's on the way in the mail to me thanks to eBay. |
| 0:30.0 | This is The Run Through. I'm Chloe Mal. And I'm Chairmanardi. And this week, U.S. Vogue's May issue came out, and it is a extremely special issue for us because there are four covers, which is something we very rarely do, and they are all tied to the MetGala coming up very shortly, famously, first Monday in May. |
| 0:52.1 | Today, to talk about our May covers, we are joined by Features Editor Marley Marius and |
| 0:57.3 | Style Director Leah Fay Cooper. |
| 1:01.0 | And Choma, Marley, and Leah are scribes of this month's cover article. |
| 1:09.9 | So we are very excited to get into it. |
| 1:12.2 | But first, where I even tell you who the covers are, Choma, I want to talk about your |
| 1:17.0 | new cover that dropped yesterday. |
| 1:19.8 | Yeah, we had the divine Billy Eilish on our cover shot by Johnny DeFour. |
| 1:26.0 | It was a really, really fun shoot. |
| 1:29.5 | And we actually invited a ton of, like, her friends, |
| 1:33.7 | like mostly famous, to interview her to submit questions. |
| 1:37.5 | Oh, that's cute. |
| 1:38.6 | Yes, you had Ariana Grande, Scissor, Nikki Minaj. |
| 1:42.9 | It was like a whole... |
| 1:43.7 | What was the best question? Oh, that's a tough one Minaj. It was like a whole... What was the best question? |
| 1:45.4 | Oh, that's a tough one. |
| 1:47.3 | Michaela Cole was like asking whether she flosses or uses mouthwash first or something, and it was so interesting. |
| 1:53.5 | Oh, my goodness. I was like, I'd never thought to ask a celebrity that, but it's a great question. |
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