{"id":61517,"date":"2021-09-19T01:34:35","date_gmt":"2021-09-19T01:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=61517"},"modified":"2021-09-19T01:35:13","modified_gmt":"2021-09-19T01:35:13","slug":"lewis-hamilton-bought-a-met-gala-table-for-emerging-black-fashion-designers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=61517","title":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton bought a Met Gala table for emerging Black fashion designers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lewis Hamilton bought a Met Gala table for emerging Black fashion designers<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Road Show<\/a>
\n2021-09-13<\/p>\n

Daniel Golson<\/strong><\/a>, Social Media Editor<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nLewis Hamilton’s<\/a> influence extends far beyond F1<\/a>.
\nTheo Wargo\/Getty Images<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Tables run upwards of $275,000 and can be exclusionary to young, diverse talent, so the seven-time F1<\/a> world champion hosted his own.<\/em><\/p>\n

If you needed any more proof that Lewis Hamilton<\/a> is an incredible force in the racing world and beyond, not even two days after a near-death Formula 1 crash<\/a> in Italy<\/a> he stepped onto the Met Gala red carpet<\/a> in New York<\/a> on Monday to promote emerging Black fashion designers.<\/p>\n

The theme of this year’s Met Gala<\/a> was “In America: A Lexicon of Fashion,” centered on American style and independence. Individual tickets to the Met run upwards of $30,000 while full tables are over $275,000 and typically major designers or fashion houses will buy them and invite the celebrities they’re dressing for the night, making it difficult for up-and-coming designers and stars to make an impact at the event, which is referred to as “fashion’s biggest night.” That makes what Hamilton did especially powerful: The seven-time world champion bought his own table and invited four young Black designers as his guests…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tables run upwards of $275,000 and can be exclusionary to young, diverse talent, so the seven-time F1 world champion hosted his own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,8,20],"tags":[31899,31901,31900,31897,30982,31612,31611,18757,31902,31896,31898,7222],"class_list":["post-61517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-cnet","tag-costume-institute-benefit","tag-costume-institute-gala","tag-daniel-golson","tag-f1","tag-formula-one","tag-lewis-carl-davidson-hamilton","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-met-ball","tag-met-gala","tag-road-show","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61517"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61519,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61517\/revisions\/61519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}