The Met Gala returned last night with its usual explosion of sequins, sparkles and glitter from the old school, when 600 of Anna Wintour’s closest and dearest people descended on the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York for the annual big fashion night.
While the 2021 event marked the first part of a two-part exhibition at the museum on In America: A Lexicon of Fashion, last night focused on the second half – In America: An Anthology of Fashion, with a gilded glitter dresscode indicating a white tie with a small invitation font.
The theme refers to the Gilded Age of America, a term introduced by Mark Twain in 1873, referring to the period from 1870 to 1890, when America was going through a period of unprecedented industrialization, growing prosperity and sociocultural change. Some guests, such as Alicia Keys, nodded at the skyscrapers that had risen in New York overnight; others mention a dress from the period with corsets and vanity; and some, such as actor and musician Reese Ahmed, have even withdrawn the subject entirely with a look that pays homage to exploited immigrant workers who have eased a period of tremendous economic change. However, the majority took the topic more literally: Amber Valletta, Lizo and Megan Ti Stallion shone in the spectacular style of a golden star.
From looks to great respect for Rihanna, this is your briefing for the Met Gala.
Donatella’s drama
Blake Lively in Versace
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The co-hosts of the event, Blake Lively and her husband Ryan Reynolds, were among the first to arrive at the 13-foot Metropolitan Museum of Art. The first served a healthy dose of typical Met Gala drama in a Versace copper strapless dress with a huge bow and matching gloves, before being assisted by a team of three assistants who peeled off the top layer of satin, turning it from glowing orange to bright turquoise. This was Lively’s ode to the Statue of Liberty, which was unveiled in New York in 1886.
Donatella Versace and Cardi B in Versace
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Donatella Versace was the brain behind another of the most dramatic arrivals of the evening. Cardi B made a characteristically amazing entrance, not only immersed in golden Versace, but also coming out of a convertible with Versace Barocco prints. The rapper, accompanied by Donatella, wore high pressure on the gilded theme in a personalized dress by Atelier Versace, adorned with a kilometer of gold chains and iconic medallions on the heads of the Medusa brand, which took 20 Versace masters over 1,300 hours to perform.
Designers and their muses
Alessandro Michele and Jared Leto at Gucci
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Other designers took to the red carpet with their muses – including Valentino’s Pierpaolo Piccioli, who made Glenn Close turn into her electric pink floral embroidered cloak, and Moschino’s Jeremy Scott, who brought Iris Lowe to her first Matt. Gucci creative director Alessandro Michele arrived with the brand’s muse Jared Leto, dressed in exactly the same look: a double-breasted cream suit with floral embroidery, gold beads and pearls, worn with an evening shirt, suede boots, pink satin bow tie and suede bloc Guci. It’s inspired, the brand said, “from the mid-19th century, the optical illusions that changed reality.”
Corsets, corsets everywhere
Billy Isle in Gucci
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Several celebrities interpreted the topic by enlarging corsets. Billy Ailish looked every inch like a 19th-century portrait as she posed wildly in her personalized Gucci lace and satin dress, while Gigi Hadid shook a Versace red latex jumpsuit with a bone corset and a giant matching down jacket and cape. Current models Paloma Elseser and Precious Lee also received the note: the first in a sexy corset white look by Coach, the second in a transparent black Altuzarra dress with a black corset and a mermaid train decorated with 10,000 sequins. Lenny Kravitz, of course, wore a see-through black lace top with a corset in black leather pants and a smooth lace cape.
The Burberry Brit package
Leela and Kate Moss at Burberry
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Bella Hadid also appeared on the red carpet in a bondage-inspired black Burberry corset dress with a high slit in the trouser leg and a flowing train of lace, a seductive – albeit free – interpretation of the theme. She joined a group of Britons who took their seats at the Burberry table with creative director Ricardo Tisci: including not one but two Mosses. Kate looked seamless in a black velvet dress inspired by a tuxedo with open shoulders, and brought her daughter Lila on her first Met (just a week after recording her first cover of Vogue). Minnie Moss shone in a nude fishnet dress with inlaid crystals and nude bodysuits.
Naomi Campbell at Burberry
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They are joined by Naomi Campbell, who arrived with her face inlaid with gems – many Glastonbury – and a black dress with the Burberry horse logo scattered in diamonds. She added a Jacob & Co necklace that included 37 round brilliant natural fantastic yellow diamonds worth $ 6.6 million (£ 5.3 million). Festival attire that wasn’t. Irina Shayk shook black biker skin from Burberry’s head to toe, while Nicki Minaj complemented her front split, sparkling black Burberry tulle dress with a leather hat and pants. But it was Stormsie who dazzled us with her grace in a fresh white Burberry suit with a white tie and a white floor-length cape.
Stormzy in Burberry
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Kim K. makes Marilyn
Kim Kardashian in the dress of Marilyn Monroe and Pete Davidson in Dior Men
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With recently bleached blond locks, Kim Kardashian arrived for her ninth Met Gala with boyfriend Pete Davidson, dressed in the real dress Marilyn Monroe wore to President John F. Kennedy’s 1962 serenade. She had lost 16 pounds to fit naked. , shiny dress; a piece of fashion history made by costume designer Jean-Louis and borrowed from a museum in Florida. The dress includes more than 6,000 crystals and sold at auction in 2016 for a record 4.6 million dollars (3.7 million British pounds) – no wonder Kardashian became a spear before sitting down to dinner.
Perry softens it
Katy Perry at the Oscars de la Renta
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To Instagram’s great disappointment, Katy Perry – known for her avant-garde interpretations of Met themes (see: The Chandelier Dress 2019) – decided to soften this year in a black Oscar de la Renta dress. “It would be pretty obvious to me to play the insidious, crazy, wild, big, fun, colorful card,” Perry told Page Six last month. “This time I’m going to play a completely different card.” If we say we don’t miss the chance to see her climb the stairs dressed as a light bulb (an invention of the Golden Age), we would think twice.
The people we missed
Missing were some of the event’s most famous great outfits. Encounter Queen Rihanna – who closed the red carpet over and over again with iconic moments such as her huge yellow three-meter Guo Pei train in 2015 and papal vision in 2018 – was absent because she is (very) pregnant with her first child. However, she still stole the show in absentia, thanks to a marble statue that Matt erected on it in the prime of her pregnancy. “Close Matt in marble!” What could be more gilded than that? ” the singer asked in her Instagram. It’s a lot. Also absent was the nimble dresser Timothy Shalame – who in previous years had appeared as a knight in armor – and his colleague from Dune Zendaya. Beyoncé also missed the procedures, as did Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck. This would be their first public appearance since they got engaged, so they must be waiting for something.
The double moments
Brooklyn Beckham and Nicola Peltz at Valentino
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However, Brooklyn Beckham and Nicola Peltz made their first public appearance since their wedding last month. They both wore Valentino, the brand behind Peltz’s wedding dress – Beckham in a soft pink suit and sneakers, and Peltz in a flowing chiffon dress in pink. Also a shocking couple were Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner, who is pregnant with her second child, who both looked striking in Louis Vuitton. Jonas came out of the traditional white tuxedo jacket with a lace skirt and coat, while Turner was a classic in a black spiked dress.
Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner at Louis Vuitton
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And while it wasn’t directly in line with the 1800s theme, glamor talk sparked a resurgence of old Hollywood glamor yesterday. From Daisy Edgar-Jones in a disco ball, a dress with crystal fringe by Oscar de la Renta, to Kaia Gerber in the style of the 20s, a dress with a relaxed waist by Alexander McQueen, it was a night defined by sophistication and – somewhat surprising for Met Gala – restrained dressing. And the guests did not look better.
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