In Conversation With the Modern Dandy
If you don't know Bloody Osiris, it's not for his lack of trying. Like Met Gala co-host A$AP Rocky, the self-made street-style star went from Harlem to pretty much everywhere and remains one of the preeminent dressers of fashion week.
Osiris is, if nothing else, defined by his personal style. Eclectic, gregarious, very loud: His wardrobe epitomizes that of the modern dandy. He is uptown, personified
"New York, we start the trends," Osiris says. "We're the mecca for fashion. We start the trends. Style is like your attitude, your whole, your aura, your charisma, your wit, everything. Everything goes into your style."
As such, who better to weigh in on the 2025 Met Gala, with its theme of "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style?"
And so we did.
Perhaps Bloody Osiris' biggest crossover claim to fame was his kinship with the late Virgil Abloh, who tapped the young stylist as a muse and confidant in a fitting turn of fate — Abloh himself initially inspired Osiris (incidentally, mind you) with his art direction on Watch the Throne.
Several in-story LV mannequins were modeled on Osiris' body, for instance, making him a very literal face of the brand.
"I felt like a king in that era, All Black men, we all felt like kings in that era," says Osiris. "Virgil definitely inspired me. He was the angel, the angel in disguise."
Beyond the Abloh of it all, there's his styling work — Osiris has styled Travis Scott, Don Toliver, and Playboi Carti, among others — the collaborations with brands like adidas and Axel Arigato, the modeling gigs for Off-White™ (for whom he has also did styling work) and Jordan Brand... Let's stop there to keep it concise.
Maybe Osiris won't be walking the 2025 Met Gala red carpet. But what does that matter, when every day of your life is the Met Gala?
"People be trying to criticize me in the comments. You could never make me hate me," he laughs. "Never let somebody try to make you hate yourself, man, you are yourself. You grew up with yourself. You've been with yourself since you was zero years old. You understand what I'm saying?"
