Inside Last Night's GQ Party Hosted by André 3000 With Grace Wales Bonner, Law Roach, and Anok Yai

Fashion’s biggest night was just getting started at around 1:30 a.m. when Colman Domingo strutted into The GQ Party with a gaggle of gussied-up artists and starlets tumbling through the doors of The Twenty Two in his wake. The actor’s silky baritone was shot, to say nothing of his legs, following a busy day co-chairing the 2025 Met Gala, which culminated in a couple hours of greeting guests at the top of the fashion world’s most famous red carpet. Luckily for him, GQ had its own party and host committee of sorts, topped by GQ global editorial director Will Welch and André 3000, along with Grace Wales Bonner, Law Roach, and Anok Yai.

I caught up with Domingo as he beelined for the dance floor. The Met Gala, which this year celebrated the legacy of the Black dandy in menswear, “felt like a quiet act of loving revolution,” Domingo told me. Call that a success. By early Tuesday morning, it was time to mcelebrate. With DJ Rich Medina setting the rhythm, Domingo, who had swapped his Valentino cape for a leather Balmain coat, wiggled his hips as Sprinter vans continued to disgorge A-listers out front.

It would take more than a persistent drizzle to dampen the post-Met Gala party circuit, a genuinely singular moment in NYC nightlife where hundreds of celebrities wearing the highest of high fashion are unleashed upon a dozen-some parties dotting Manhattan, from august Upper East Side hotels to grungy Lower East Side clubs. Things start late for a Monday (or any day of the week), and go even later. It’s like an entire fashion week’s worth of bashes packed into one highly energetic evening.

By the time Domingo arrived, it felt like the best dressed were at The GQ Party, which was presented by Lexus, Capital One’s Velocity Black, 1800 Tequila, and Aramis. In one corner, André 3000, having ditched his grand piano, was locked in conversation with Lewis Hamilton, who then got waylaid by a big hug from Blackpink’s Rosé. “It’s so good to see you!” she squealed. The Formula 1 legend circled back to make sure he and 3 Stacks got a photo together—one GOAT with another.

“This party is where you really get to let your hair down,” declared Law Roach, whose own bleached hair remained perfectly coiffed. “And look, people are jumping around, screaming, taking pictures.” All night, you could feel the sky-high levels of enthusiasm around this year’s Black dandy-themed Met Gala and Costume Institute exhibition. But Roach, coming off what he called “such a special night,” was also reflecting on the rare opportunity to get a room like this together. “It’s about fellowship. Here, you can hang out with everyone.”

And what a room it was. In the warm light of Twenty Two restaurant Zafri’s, Sabrina Carpenter popped into a photo booth with Jenna Ortega, while a Thom Browne-clad Walton Goggins got comfortable in a plush hotel bed—not to order room service but to pose in the GQ portrait studio manned by Tyrell Hampton. The real supermodels—namely Hailey Bieber and Kendall Jenner, who commandeered a couple of banquettes for their comrade Anok—patiently waited their turn.