British Formula 1 driver @LewisHamilton's Met Gala @Burberry look was inspired by the story of John Ystumllyn, one of Britain’s first black gardeners, and the symbolic language of flowers in black history. John Ystumllyn was an 18th-century gardener and is considered the first well-recorded black person of North Wales. Most likely brought to the Ystumllyn estate as an enslaved boy, he was well-respected in his local community, eventually marrying a local woman named Margaret Gruffydd. Hamilton's outfit was hand-embroidered over two weeks by a team of 20, before the finishing touches were painted by hand in New York. Inspired by Ystumllyn's green thumb, the coat is embroidered with periwinkles for endurance, yucca for eternity and protection, daffodils for their hardiness, and cedar branches for everlasting life. The thorns around his neck symbolize the perils of slavery.