The story behind A$AP Rocky's outfit at the Met Gala 2021 The quilt-cape was designed by ERL and is inspired by American 'memory quilts'

Yesterday, among the couture outfits of Balenciaga and Valentino, and in the middle of the Thom Browne waterfall that invaded the red carpet of the Met Gala, the outfit of A$AP Rocky attracted a lot of attention: a simple tuxedo around which the New York rapper wore, wrapped as in a cocoon, a giant multicolored quilt signed ERL,  the brand founded by the multidisciplinary creative Eli Russell Linnetz, a designer considered together with Emily Bode one of the greatest exponents of young American fashion. Linnetz is a peculiar creative, very attached to his native Venice Beach, whose style he was able to condense and sublimate, who was not only contacted by A$AP Rocky to create this look inspired by the brand's SS22 collection, but who also earned a showcase in the prestigious exhibition In America:  A Lexicon of Fashion of the Met Costume Institute with a look that is the reconstruction of an ancient baseball uniform. 

In an interview with The New York Times, Linnetz said that more than one celebrity asked him to design an outfit for the Met Gala but he wanted to focus on A$AP Rocky because it's «someone that I actually am like friends with, and believe in, and is just a nice person». The designer also said he was reluctant to create an outfit for the gala saying: «I created ERL to get away from all this music industry celebrity kind of stuff».