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Rachel KingMon, May 4, 2026 at 10:53 PM UTC

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Damson Idris Makes a Statement in an Oversized Prada Leather at the Met Gala

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Damson Idris is not one to phone it in on the red carpet. The F1: The Movie actor both styles his own looks and runs his own fine jewelry brand, DIDRIS. A Prada house ambassador, Idris also wore a custom black leather coat with red poplin tuxedo cuff detailing, an antiqued red leather top, black leather trousers, and matching lace-up derby shoes. He completed the look with a gold necklace with mixed gems, gold earring studs, and a pair of gold rings.

Damson Idris at the 2026 Met Gala.Jamie McCarthy - Getty Images

The Met Gala red carpet is a special place for Idris. He introduced the first piece from DIDRIS last year at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s annual fundraiser for the Costume Institute: a set of brooches resembling a pocket watch, featuring an 11-carat emerald surrounded by 18 channel-cut tourmalines and 238 tsavorites and diamonds.

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A closeup of Idris’s look.Theo Wargo - Getty Images

Speaking to T&C earlier this year about a marquise blue diamond brooch he designed for the Oscars, Idris shared how his mother and her experience in the jewelry industry inspired him to get into the space himself. While celebrity side businesses are nothing new these days, and almost expected, jewelry is more of an outlier compared to fragrance, skincare, and liquor. Idris acknowledged it was a “real trial” to break into the high-end jewelry industry.

Idris at the 2025 Met Gala.Dia Dipasupil - Getty Images

“The first [designer] shoes I ever bought were Prada, so it was a seamless connection,” Idris says. “But everything else often felt like a money grab, and I see that with a lot of my peers too. No shade, they get into alcohol and they get into this, they get into that. But where is the story? The story is everything.”

Idris is next set to appear in the long-awaited cinematic adaptation of Tomi Adeyemi’s bestselling YA novel Children of Blood and Bone, slated for release in January 2027. He is also attached to play Miles Davis in Bill Pohlad’s Miles & Julietet, centered on Davis’s romance with French actress Juliette Gréco.

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