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Some Met Gala red carpet collaborations are born in conference rooms, exhibiting as much chemistry as a blank Post-It note. Kerry Washington's "Black dandy, white hat" moment by Jonathan Simkhai is decidedly not one of those Met Gala looks. Even the duo's design origin story is tailored for a movie treatment: They had a fashion meet-cute at another star-studded event.
