As the first Monday of May has gone and passed, it leaves with a stunning collection of outfits from celebrities from this year’s Met Gala. The theme this year was Costume Art paired with a dress code “Fashion is Art”. Here are some stand out outfits from that night.
Emma Chamberlain
This was Chamberlain’s sixth Met Gala that she attended. This year she came in a stunning hand-painted and watercolor inspired gown. Her gown is a custom Mugler designed by Miguel Castro Freitas and hand-painted by artist Anna Deller-Yee. This impressive dress took 40 hours to be painted with a total of 30 base colors and in turn took nearly four days to dry. The shoes she walked the carpet with were Stuart Weitzman platform heels custom-dyed navy satin.
Beyonce
This is Beyonce’s long awaited return to the Met Gala, her last time at the Met Gala was in 2016. But this time is a co-chair for this year’s Met Gala. This year she came in a shining stunning crystal skeleton dress. Her dress is a custom Olivier Rousteing crystal embellished form-fitting, translucent gown, and with a feathered train in the back. It was inspired by a 1944 skeleton print titled “Visitor” by artist Caroline Wogan Durieux.
Madonna
This is Madonna’s ninth Met Gala that she attended. This year she wore a gothic inspired gown with seven helpers carrying her cape. Her gown is a custom Saint Laurent look designed by Anthony Vaccarello. Her dress is a satin slip, a long violet organza cape that was carried with seven helpers, with a ship hat, and with opera gloves. Her outfit is inspired by Lenroa Carrington’s painting “The Temptation of St. Anthony. Fragment II”. (The context of why Madonna had seven helpers around is because in the painting there are seven people around one main person in the center.)
Sabrina Carpenter
This is Sabrina Carpenter’s fourth year attending the Met Gala. This year she wore a uniquely made slit dress. This year Carpenter wore a custom Dior slit tulle dress made by Jonathan Anderson made out of film strips with rhinestones on the strips. Specifically this dress is to pay homage to the 1954 film Sabrina that starred Audrey Hepburn as the film on the strips is the film Sabrina.
Heidi Klum
This is Klum’s sixth year attending the Met Gala and she took the dress code “Fashion is Art” really seriously, as she turned herself into, using prosthetics, into a real life looking statue. This year Klum wore a custom stone-like draped piece made with latex and spandex to look like a statue, created by prosthetic designer Mike Marino. Klum’s look was inspired by 19th-century classical statutes, but specifically the main inspiration was the 1847 piece “Veiled Vestal” by Raffaele Monti and the 1753 piece “Veiled Christ” by Giuseppe Sanmartino.