Solange Knowles’ son Julez Smith made his Met Gala debut on Monday at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
The 19-year-old model looked dapper as he arrived to fashion’s biggest night, though his mom, 37, famous aunt Beyonce, 42, and her husband Jay-Z, 54, did not attend this year.
Julez — who recently made his runway debut with Beyonce in the audience cheering him on — was dressed in Luar, wearing a dapper black jacket and matching pants that were styled as a half skirt.
He was joined by designer Raul Lopez and rapper Lil Nas X, who also sported the brand.
His debut came on the 10-year anniversary of his mom’s infamous elevator brawl with her brother-in-law, when she was pictured hitting and kicking the hip hop mogul in Beyonce’s presence at a Met Gala afterparty in 2014.
Solange Knowles’ son Julez Smith made his Met Gala debut on Monday at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City
The 19-year-old model looked dapper as he arrived to fashion’s biggest night, though his mom, 37, famous aunt Beyonce, 42, and her husband Jay-Z, 54, did not attend this year
While at the event on Monday Julez also posed with Italian fashion designer Donatella Versace, 69.
Donatella wowed in a spectacular mint gown from her Versace label.
This year’s Costume Institute’s spring exhibition was titled Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion, with the dress code being The Garden of Time.
Jennifer Lopez, Zendaya, Bad Bunny and Chris Hemsworth were the co-chairs. Also on the committee is Vogue’s Anna Wintour.
Solange shares Julez with her ex-husband Daniel Smith, 41, to whom she was married from 2004 until 2007.
Julez recently signed with Next Management, and made his runway debut at Luar’s fall 2024 show, where he was supported by Beyonce and grandma Tina Knowles.
He revealed that his love for fashion runs in the family.
‘It came pretty naturally,’ he told Vogue in an interview last month.
‘Growing up, my grandma was doing costumes for my auntie and my mom, and I think my mom is one of the best-dressed people in the world. I just wanted to be fly and keep up with them—but I wanted to be on the modeling side.’
Julez was dressed in Luar, wearing a dapper black jacket and matching pants that were styled as a half skirt.
He was joined by joined by designer Raul Lopez and rapper Lil Nas X, who also sported the brand
He also posed with Italian fashion designer Donatella Versace, 69
Donatella wowed in a spectacular mint gown from her Versace label
Julez recently signed with Next Management, and made his runway debut at Luar’s fall 2024 show (pictured)
He was supported by his famous aunt Beyonce and grandma Tina Knowles
Julez’s mom Solange was part of one of the most controversial Met Gala moments of all time when a video of her hitting Jay-Z in an elevator back in May 2014 was released.
Surveillance video captured inside The Standard, High Line in New York City, showed the two arguing as Beyonce watched the incident.
Eventually the Grammy Award-winning singer started yelling at the rapper before hitting and kicking him, as a security guard who was also in the elevator tried to restrain her.
At one point, Beyonce also stood between her husband and sister.
Days after footage of the fight was released, the trio released a statement to the Associated Press that read: ‘As a result of the public release of the elevator security footage from Monday, May 5th, there has been a great deal of speculation about what triggered the unfortunate incident.’
‘But the most important thing is that our family has worked through it. Jay and Solange each assume their share of responsibility for what has occurred.’
‘They both acknowledge their role in this private matter that has played out in the public. They both have apologized to each other and we have moved forward as a united family.’
Three years later, Jay-Z spoke about his bond with his sister-in-law.
‘We had one disagreement ever. Before and after we’ve been cool,’ he said in an August 2017 Rap Radar podcast episode.
‘She’s like my sister. I will protect her. That’s my sister, not my sister-in-law. My sister. Period.’
It comes 10 years after Solange’s infamous elevator brawl with Jay-Z, when she was pictured hitting and kicking the hip hop mogul in Beyonce’s presence in an elevator, after the Met Gala in 2014; they are seen exiting the elevator following the incident
Though Beyonce and Jay-Z have gone through challenges, as conveyed on her 20l6 album Lemonade where she hints at her husband cheating, their union continues to remain strong, after they recently celebrated 16 years of marriage last month; seen in 2015
A decade later, Beyonce, Jay-Z and Solange still have not directly confirmed or denied reports about what prompted the elevator fight, though they’ve briefly mentioned the incident in a number of songs.
On his 2017 track ‘Kill Jay Z’, Beyonce’s husband rapped, ‘You egged Solange on / Knowin’ all along, all you had to say you was wrong.’
Beyonce referenced the scandal in a remix of her single, Flawless: ‘And we could go around and get some good karma, but no. We escalate, up in this b***h like elevators. Of course sometimes s**t go down, when it’s a billion dollars on an elevator’.
Though the pair have gone through challenges, as conveyed on Beyoncé’s 20l6 album Lemonade where she hints at her husband cheating, their union continues to remain strong, after they recently celebrated 16 years of marriage.
The pair also share 12-year-old daughter Blue Ivy along with 6-year-old twins Rumi and Sir.
