This is gilded glamour from the future,” Monáe told The Associated Press. Janelle Monáe offered a royal wave in a black and white bedazzled helmet piece and slinky gown with head piece. She wore a black dress under a stunning gold-embroidered black coat, all by Thom Browne.Ĭamila Cabello worked a huge white gown with a midriff top, from Prabal Gurung, while Jordan Roth, the theater producer, provided a reveal of his own, removing a black, egg-like shell to a matching bulbous suit, all by Thom Browne. Lizzo, meanwhile, got the crowd cheering when she played her gold flute for fans watching the parade of fashion outside. She wore a tight-as-skin, blood red Latex catsuit with a corseted bodice and huge, heavy quilted coat from Versace. Gigi Hadid was more redefined cat woman than golden girl.
“Instead of looking to fashion to influence the dress, I looked to New York City architecture,” Lively said.Ĭardi B, accompanied by Donatella Versace, was an over-the-top golden goddess in a dress of mesh and chains, a fitting birthday for the designer. Her look drew inspiration from the Statue of Liberty, the Empire State Building and the blue ceiling of Grand Central Station. Lively, one of the evening’s co-hosts, wore a bronze and rose gold look that transformed into a shimmery layer of baby blue as a large bow was pulled. “Black and white are THE colors for the evening,” said Holly Katz, a stylist and host of the Fashion Crimes podcast. Others paid literal homage to New York City, home base for the Gilded Age, and still more shimmered in metallic golds and silver. The celebration of American design was themed to gilded glamour, sprouting classic black tailed tuxedoes for many of the men and lots of dresses in black and white for the women. But she only wore the fragile original dress for her walk up the Grand Staircase at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, changing into a replica after that, according to Vogue.Įarlier, Blake Lively smiled for the cameras in a grand Atelier Versace gown, with husband Ryan Reynolds in brown velvet, Billie Eilish went with an upcycled green lace-trim dress from Gucci and Cynthia Erivo wore sheer white Louis Vuitton with a matching head piece as the Met Gala returned to its berth on the first Monday in May after years of pandemic upheaval. Her hair was platinum and pulled tightly into a bun. Kardashian, with boyfriend Pete Davidson at her side, paired the dress with Cartier white gold drop diamond earrings and a furry white jacket she kept strategically low to cover her backside. It has been known as the “Happy Birthday, Mr. president” on May 19, 1962, at a Madison Square Garden fundraiser. It was so tight Monroe had to be sewn into it when she purred “Happy birthday, Mr. Her final look was embellished with crystals and featured art deco architecture from the Empire State Building on her bodice. Lively's train even had "a constellation from Grand Central Station" and "lots of little references" to the Big Apple, as she told E! News exclusively on the red carpet.The dress originally cost $12,000. Lively even swapped copper opera gloves for green ones in a surprising style twist. However, once she got in front of the photographers, a team of assistants unraveled the metallic leather fabric at the waist, revealing a green look underneath meant to reference the Statue of Liberty for tonight's theme of "In America: An Anthology of Fashion." Lively, who arrived on the arm of husband Ryan Reynolds, made an entrance in a sweeping, dramatic copper look that featured a giant bow on her right hip. The fashion icon shut down the 2022 Met Gala red carpet at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC on May 2 in not one, but two looks by Versace Atelier ( see every star on the red carpet here). No one does the Met Gala like Blake Lively.