Next, they began to unpack the costume design for the actor\u2019s characters in a suite of varied SNL<\/em> sketches; they realized they could have a lot<\/em> of fun. \u201c[We] chose lots of sketches that played to my strengths and also challenged me a little bit, but also, there\u2019s a diversity in characters,\u201d he explains. \u201cAnd so, for me, diversity in characters is also diversity in wardrobe.\u201d A standout sketch<\/a>\u2014among the best of this 51st season and beyond\u2014sees Domingo play a bitchy fashion school professor at the scene of an armed robbery in New York\u2019s fashion district. \u201cI don\u2019t teach\u2026I show,\u201d he drawls while smoking a cig, \u201cI am the lesson.\u201d When asked to describe the suspect, he dresses down his criminal \u2019fit: \u201cBe on the lookout for a mess<\/em>.\u201d More professor of Couture, D\u2019artagnan Meringue please!<\/p>\n Domingo worked with legendary photographer Mary Ellen Matthews, who has lensed 25 years of the show and its starry hosts: her promo photo shoots are instantly iconic, always jovial and playful, drawing the most characterful performances out of everyone from Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet to Kim Kardashian.<\/p>\n \u201cThe beautiful thing about working with Mary Ellen is that she is extremely fast and captures iconic images,\u201d says Domingo. \u201cWe wanted to make all these images about New York City moments.\u201d They shot in a bodega, on the city streets, in Central Park, and on stage in the iconic Studio 8h.<\/p>\n One of the most important aspects for Domingo when taking on the Saturday Night Live<\/em> slot was to challenge himself in as many ways as he could\u2014that sensibility articulated itself in his choice of fashion, too. \u201cWith my stylists, they really outdid themselves when it came to creating a beautiful collage that I had not done before,\u201d he says. \u201cI feel like myself, yet fashion forward. We decided on some emerging designers such as Craig Green<\/a> and Who Decides War<\/a>, that I had not worn before.\u201d Said Craig Green look was a daffodil-print, quilted jacket and arpeggiated paneled floral shirt and pants. He also wore a glamorous, structured, and shoulder-padded Weinsanto shirt with barrel-leg pants and heeled Zvelle shoes, a cornflower blue and leaf-printed Paul Smith shirt with Willy Chavarria<\/a> shoes, and a Who Decides War patterned, pink military-style jacket.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n![\"Image](\"https:\/\/assets.vogue.com\/photos\/69dbfaf8e5d0ec0495311b41\/master\/w_1600%2Cc_limit\/ColmanDomingo_05_348_lyrd%2520copy%25203.png\"\/)
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