Fashion’s biggest night is here, with famous faces showing up and showing out at the 2024 Met Gala with their best takes on this year’s theme: “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion.”
On Monday evening, The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City will be flooded with celebrated musicians, transformative designers, actors, and influencers to honour The Costume Institute’s spring 2024 exhibit. This year’s gala will co-chaired by stars including Zendaya, Chris Hemsworth, Jennifer Lopez, and Bad Bunny. Meanwhile,Vogue red-carpet hosts La La Anthony, Gwendoline Christie, and Ashley Graham, as well as special correspondent Emma Chamberlain, will be interviewing the parade of guests donning organic-inspired ensembles.
From archival couture to custom-made designs, many of tonight’s looks will explore the idea of fairytale-esque, eternal beauty through natural flora and fauna motifs.
Reece Feldman
The TikTok personality and cinephile donned a Thom Browne ensemble with floral and thorn details as well as embroidered butterflies that almost evoked a Monet painting in greyscale. He paired the tailored blazer and kilt with the brand’s signature daschund handbag in black.
Alexandra Michler Kopelman
The Vogue editor walked the green carpet in a gown with multi-coloured roses, and a column silhouette subverted by an on-trend bubble hem.
Ashley Graham
The former America’s Next Top Model host stunned in a halter-necked leather gown from Ludovic de Saint Sernin. The sleek look boasted lush sequin detailing, including sparkling silver flowers along the bodice.
Anna Wintour
The Vogue editor-in-chief rocked a floor-length coat with floral embroidery over a white gown.
LaLa Anthony
The television personality wore a black gown that had a floral lace turtleneck that connected to gloved sleeves. She accessorised the look with a sparkling rose-shaped clutch.
Gwendoline Christie
The Game of Thrones star wowed in a red velvet gown with mesh black sleeves and a cape. She paired the look with her signature pale blonde tresses in a mad scientist bouffaint.
Emma Chamberlain
The influencer and Chamberlain coffee founder stunned with a gothic gown made up of ethereal dark brown lace, which includes the rose vine detailing shown off in her gloves.
Chris Hemsworth and Elsa Pataky
The actor and Met Gala co-chair posed alongside his model wife, looking gorgeous together in their complimentary outfits. Hemsworth rocked a cream three-piece suit, while Pataky quite literally shone bright in a golden gown and matching flower crown.
Bad Bunny
The Puerto Rican super star turned heads in a Maison Margiela pinstripe navy suit with shoulder pads and bright red stripes on the inside of the pant legs. He accessorised the look with the brand’s signature hoof Tabi shoes as well as a blue iridescent hat that referenced the character, Count Axel, from the Garden of Time short story the event’s theme is based on this year.
Harry and Jill Kargman
The Upper East Side power couple flaunted on-theme ensembles as they arrived on the green carpet. The Odd Mom Out author wore a white lace frock with black lace details that included her initials embroidered on the front. Meanwhile, her husband paid homage to Count Axel from the short story The Garden of Time, which inspired this year’s theme.
Jennifer Lopez
The entertainer and Met Gala co-chair donned a Schiaparelli silver gown with rose vine details and reportedly made up of 2.5mil beads. She paired the gown with cream-coloured clutch and an exhuberant diamond necklace with wing-like features.
Zendaya
The Challengers star and Met Gala co-chair wore a jaw-dropping gown with dark blue and green jewel tones draping complete with vine-like details bearing ornate fruit. She topped the look off with a fascinator thad had green netting and a black plume emerging from the top, and a plum-coloured gothic lip and matching eyeshadow.
Lea Michele
The visibly pregnant Broadway star broke against the jewel tones and lace overtaking the green carpet. Instead, she opted for a robin’s egg blue satin gown adorned with white flowers and a tulle shawl that cascaded down the steps.
Gustav Magnar Witzøe
The Norwegian billionaire was a Grecian pale peach vision on the green carpet, rocking a rose gold cape straight from a fairytale and sheer fabric adorned with sparkling muscles. He accessorised with a rose gold laurel headpiece.
Rebecca Hall
The actor looked ethereal in column silhouetted gown overlaid with a layers of flowers that looked like they had been drawn on with oil paint. The flowers crawled up the hem, matching the trajectory of the flowers on clear mesh gloves similarly climbing up her arms. Her shoulders were adorned with seemingly temporary flower tattoos that matched those of her gown and gloves. She wore kitten heels with a matching floral design.
Mona Patel
The influencer showed up to the green carpet in a jaw-dropping, functional Iris Van Herpen gown complete with animatronic butterflies up and down her arm.
Sabrina Harrison
The dentistry entrepreneur donned a stunning gold ensemble with surreal, Salvador Dalí-esque clock adorments, and a sharp, halo-like fascinator.
Kim Kardashian
The billionaire turned heads in a grey and silver gown with floral details, paired with elf-like platinum blonde.
Jordan Roth
The president of Jujamcyn Theaters on Broadway walked the green carpet cloaked head to toe in flowers, starting with the freshest flowers at the top and transitioning to brown rot at the hem, embodying the natural cycle of life and death.
Tyla
The “Water” singer embodied the iconic fairytale figure, the Sandman, with her sand-textured gown accessorised with an hourglass purse seemingly holding the sands of time. The singer certainly looks like a dream come true.
Ayo Edibiri
The Emmy winner climbed up the Met steps in a sweet frock adorned with white that faded into colourful flowers in a gorgeous gradient.
Wisdom Kaye
The influencer wore a head-to-toe rose red ensemble with frills and black singes all over. He paired the look with a matching cascading overcoat, exaggerated bowler hat, and of course, a large rose pinned to his lapel.
Mindy Kaling
The multi-hyphenate producer wore a beige gown with a swirling texture that enhanced the bodice of her gown and the puffs around her shoulders and waist like the petals of a flower.
Sarah Jessica Parker
The And Just Like That star rocked a skin-coloured tea-length gown with silver floral embroidery as well a matching fascinator.
Morgan Spector
The Gilded Age actor rocked a tailored rose-red blazer with giant poppies on his lapel, paired with black gloves and pants.
Georgina Chapman
The fashion designer and actor wore a stunning black-and-white gown with layered pieces evocative of butterfly wings. She walked the green carpet with her date, Oscar winner Adrien Brody.
Taylor Russell
The Bones and All actor stunned in a Loewe dress made up of a light brown wooden bodice with a high neck and red floral details. The top half was met with a Grecian white skirt that had a thigh high slit.
Tommy Hilfiger and Dee Occlepo Hilfiger
The fashionable couple were on theme, with Hilfiger donning a rose-red tuxedo and his wife rocking a cream-coloured gown with floral embroidery and an ethereal cape. Occlepo paired her look with a gem-encrusted clutch in the shape of a rose.
Teyana Taylor
The singer looked divine in a red velvet gown, with corset detailing and red rose adornments. She paired the look with gold stillettos and her platinum blonde in a romantic half-updo.
